Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n
22 June 2026\u2022Update: 22 June 2026<\/p>\n
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday welcomed support to help end the Israel war in Lebanon, but rejected \u201cinterference in its internal affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcome any assistance to end the war, but we distinguish between assistance and interference in internal affairs because we are a sovereign country and no one negotiates on our behalf,\u201d Aoun said during a meeting with a delegation from the Greek Catholic League, as cited by a presidency statement.<\/p>\n
Aoun said his administration is determined to build \u201cone strong state\u201d that represents all Lebanese.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe state, not sects, is what protects everyone, and there is no choice but one strong state that represents all Lebanese,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolitical competition exists and is legitimate, but that should not mean placing obstacles in the way of the state\u2019s revival,\u201d he added, calling for unity among the Lebanese people.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Mehr news agency earlier reported that Tehran will send a representative to a new mechanism expected to be established to monitor the ceasefire in Lebanon, as part of an understanding reached with the US during their talks in Switzerland.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military offensive in Lebanon has killed more than 4,000 people, injured over 12,000 others, and displaced over 1 million residents since March 2, according to Lebanese authorities.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n
Israel continues to occupy areas in southern Lebanon, some held for decades and others seized during the 2023\u20132024 war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rania Abushamala 22 June 2026\u2022Update: 22 June 2026 Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday welcomed support to help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-505356","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\/505356","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=505356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}