{"id":502459,"date":"2026-06-20T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502459\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:11:13","slug":"next-round-of-us-iran-talks-are-developing-as-israel-exchanges-fire-with-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502459\/","title":{"rendered":"Next round of US-Iran talks are developing as Israel exchanges fire with Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel Defense Forces<\/a> said it has been \u201cstriking Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon\u201d Saturday in response to fresh Hezbollah aggression, testing a ceasefire that was made between the two sides a day earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOvernight, the Hezbollah terrorist organization launched more than 50 projectiles at Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Following the attacks, the IDF has been striking Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon,\u201d the IDF said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hezbollah reached a ceasefire agreement that went into effect on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter had said Friday that Israel remains \u201cfirmly committed to an immediate ceasefire\u201d with Hezbollah.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Hezbollah honors the agreement and ceases its hostilities, they will be met with quiet,\u201d Leiter said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leiter also defended Israel\u2019s security buffer zone in southern Lebanon, saying Israeli forces would remain there until Hezbollah\u2019s infrastructure is dismantled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Lebanon deserve a future free from Hezbollah\u2019s grip, and a real, genuine peace between our two countries remains possible,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Yonat Friling and Jasmine Baehr contributed to this post.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israel Defense Forces said it has been \u201cstriking Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon\u201d Saturday in response&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[220,903,85,46,630,225,43,126],"class_list":["post-502459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}