{"id":531846,"date":"2026-07-08T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531846\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:40:09","slug":"trump-claims-israel-will-withdraw-from-lebanon-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531846\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims Israel will withdraw from Lebanon &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (July 8, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he believes Israel will withdraw its troops from Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters alongside Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at a press conference in Ankara, Trump said that he discussed an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked to Bibi about that. I think they\u2019re going to. I think they want to. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a question,\u201d the U.S. president said. \u201cWe have a deal with Israel and Lebanon, and yeah, they\u2019ll leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military occupies a security zone in parts of Southern Lebanon as a buffer against Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel and to dismantle the terrorist group\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/idf-to-remain-in-lebanon-as-long-as-we-need-to-protect-our-people-netanyahu-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">said<\/a> in June that the Israel Defense Forces would remain in Lebanon \u201cas long as we need to protect our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/netanyahu-historic-understandings-with-lebanon-a-massive-blow-to-hezbollah-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">framework agreement<\/a> that Israel signed with the Lebanese government does not require it to withdraw from the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 8, 2026 \/ JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he believes Israel will withdraw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-531846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531846","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=531846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}