{"id":502799,"date":"2026-06-20T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502799\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:59:14","slug":"israel-halts-fire-but-keeps-forces-in-areas-it-occupies-in-southern-lebanon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502799\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel halts fire but keeps forces in areas it occupies in southern Lebanon: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Said Amori<\/p>\n<p>20 June 2026\u2022Update: 20 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army has halted fire in Lebanon while keeping its forces in areas it seized inside southern Lebanese territory, Israeli media reported on Saturday, amid continued tensions along the border despite a ceasefire and the US-Iran agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Channel 12 said the move came on the instructions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz.<\/p>\n<p>Citing unnamed Israeli sources, the broadcaster claimed that the army \u201cstopped firing in Lebanon but is not withdrawing from the areas it occupied there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*Writing by Rania Abushamala in Istanbul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Said Amori 20 June 2026\u2022Update: 20 June 2026 The Israeli army has halted fire in Lebanon while keeping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-502799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502799","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=502799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}