{"id":528963,"date":"2026-07-07T04:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/528963\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:24:24","slug":"aoun-says-israeli-occupation-undermines-legitimacy-of-lebanese-state-naharnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/528963\/","title":{"rendered":"Aoun says Israeli occupation undermines legitimacy of Lebanese state \u2014 Naharnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  by Naharnet Newsdesk 06 July 2026, 14:48<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"W460\" class=\"picture\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783398264_899_w460.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">President Joseph Aoun said Monday that Israel&#8217;s occupation of the south was preventing the Lebanese army&#8217;s deployment to the area, as the two sides prepare to implement a deal involving the deployment and gradual Israeli withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"desc\">According to a statement from his office, Aoun emphasized the need to pressure Israel to withdraw its forces &#8220;because the persistence of the occupation undermines the legitimacy of the (Lebanese) state and prevents the army from deploying and the laying of the foundations for achieving a just and lasting peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Naharnet Newsdesk 06 July 2026, 14:48 President Joseph Aoun said Monday that Israel&#8217;s occupation of the south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-528963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528963","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=528963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}