{"id":505473,"date":"2026-06-22T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505473\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:38:11","slug":"idf-to-remain-in-southern-lebanon-with-full-freedom-of-action-benjamin-netanyahu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505473\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF to remain in southern Lebanon with &#8216;full freedom of action,&#8217; Benjamin Netanyahu says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister B<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/benjamin-netanyahu\/article-900132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">enjamin Netanyahu<\/a> said on Monday that the IDF retains freedom of action to act against threats in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My directive and that of the Minister of Defense to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-900091\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF<\/a> is clear and has not changed,&#8221; said Netanyahu. &#8220;Our fighters in southern Lebanon have full freedom of action to thwart any direct or emerging threat to them or to the residents of the North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The IDF has no restrictions in this regard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I stand behind them; the entire nation stands behind them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I stand firm that we will remain in the security zone in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-900086\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">southern Lebanon<\/a> as long as necessary to protect the residents of the North and all citizens of the country,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israel is contemplating announcing a &#8220;symbolic&#8221; withdrawal from certain territories in southern Lebanon as part of the upcoming round of talks, CNN reported earlier on Monday, citing an Israeli source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawals would include forces pulling back from minor areas along the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-897362\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yellow Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the IDF retains freedom of action to act against threats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,42,86,1031,88,47,43,40,38,41,39,74149],"class_list":["post-505473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-yellow-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505473","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=505473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}