{"id":512607,"date":"2026-06-26T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/512607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:29:12","slug":"netanyahu-says-israeli-army-will-remain-in-southern-lebanon-security-zone-until-hezbollah-disarmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/512607\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says Israeli army will remain in southern Lebanon \u2018security zone\u2019 until Hezbollah disarmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n<p>26 June 2026\u2022Update: 26 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israeli forces will remain in a &#8220;security zone&#8221; in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed, commenting on the newly reached framework deal between Israel and Lebanon under US sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>In a recorded statement, Netanyahu said: &#8220;The most important thing is that first of all, Israel remains in the security zone in southern Lebanon \u2026 we maintain it as long as Hezbollah has not disarmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the agreement allows the deployment of the Lebanese army in designated areas based on &#8220;recommendation&#8221; by the Israeli army, with implementation set to begin through &#8220;two pilot phases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu added that one of the two areas from which Israeli forces are expected to withdraw lies outside the &#8220;original security zone,&#8221; while a small part of the second area falls within what he described as the &#8220;expanded security zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon and Israel signed a US-sponsored &#8220;framework deal&#8221; in Washington on Friday, concluding the fifth round of negotiations between the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rania Abushamala 26 June 2026\u2022Update: 26 June 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-512607","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\/512607","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=512607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}