{"id":525437,"date":"2026-07-04T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525437\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:22:18","slug":"lebanons-aoun-calls-on-us-to-keep-always-standing-beside-his-country-israel-attacks-lebanon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525437\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s Aoun calls on US to keep \u2018always standing beside\u2019 his country | Israel attacks Lebanon News"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a congratulatory message on US Independence Day, Aoun says he hopes Lebanon can \u2018open a new page of hope, peace and stability\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has called on the United States to stand by Beirut following a landmark agreement<\/a> between Lebanon and Israel, mediated by Washington.<\/p>\n

In a congratulatory message to President Donald Trump marking the US 250th Independence Day, Aoun urged Washington to \u201ckeep always standing beside Lebanon\u2019s right and just causes, its institutions, army and people\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He added that he hopes that Lebanon could \u201cturn the page on wars \u2026 and open a new page of hope, peace and stability\u201d.<\/p>\n

The US Embassy in Lebanon also said in a post on X that it is \u201cwith great pride that we stand with the people of Lebanon as they forge a brighter future \u2013 one of peace, prosperity and promise long overdue\u201d.<\/p>\n

Last week, Israel and Lebanon signed a US-backed framework deal intended to permanently end the conflict with the Hezbollah armed group that is continuing in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The agreement includes calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah, a gradual Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon<\/a> and the deployment of the Lebanese army to the area, beginning with two pilot areas.<\/p>\n

But Hezbollah has rejected<\/a> the deal, which does not set out a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah joined the United States-Israel war with Iran on March 2 with rocket fire at Israel to avenge the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

In response to the attack, Israel launched an intense campaign of air strikes and a ground invasion in southern Lebanon, occupying swaths of territory.<\/p>\n

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health on Saturday, the death toll since March 2 has reached 4,303 killed and 12,202 others wounded.<\/p>\n

During a visit to southern Lebanon, including the heavily damaged city of Nabatieh, on Saturday, Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed said authorities were working on a plan that includes \u201cprefabricated houses and rent assistance payments\u201d to help people return home or move to nearby areas.<\/p>\n

Sayed also said that 400,000 displaced people have returned to their areas in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

But attacks have also continued in southern Lebanon, with the country\u2019s National News Agency (NNA) reporting on Saturday that an Israeli Apache helicopter fired five missiles towards the town of Majdal Zoun.<\/p>\n

Separately, NNA reported that one person was injured after an Israeli strike on the village of al-Mansouri.<\/p>\n

In a later statement on Saturday, the Israeli military said its troops killed an armed fighter in the \u201csecurity zone\u201d in southern Lebanon, where the military is stationed.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier today, IDF soldiers identified an armed terrorist operating inside the Security Zone, in the Majdal Zoun area in southern Lebanon,\u201d the military said, adding that troops \u201copened fire at the terrorist\u201d and then after conducting extensive searches, \u201celiminated\u201d him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a congratulatory message on US Independence Day, Aoun says he hopes Lebanon can \u2018open a new page…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,48084,88,47,43,40,38,41,39,1032,1156],"class_list":["post-525437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525437","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=525437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}