{"id":532684,"date":"2026-07-09T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/532684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:52:10","slug":"defense-minister-katz-rejects-trumps-claim-that-idf-will-withdraw-from-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/532684\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Katz rejects Trump’s claim that IDF will withdraw from Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defense Minister Israel Katz<\/a> rejected US President Donald Trump’s Wednesday claim that Israel would withdraw from Lebanon, saying on Thursday that Israel would remain in the security zones for as long as was needed.<\/p>\n

“We did not ask anyone’s permission to enter Lebanon, and we do not need permission to stay in Lebanon,” Katz stated.<\/p>\n

He also stated that it was Israel’s “privilege and right” to protect its people from Hezbollah, and that IDF forces would maintain a presence in southern Lebanon until the terror group was completely disarmed and the threat had been fully removed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump<\/a> said that he thought Israel would withdraw troops from southern Lebanon because it wanted to take that step, despite previous comments from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicating otherwise.<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara that he had discussed a withdrawal with Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I think they’re going to. I think they want to,” Trump said. “So we have a deal with Israel and Lebanon<\/a>. Yeah, they’ll leave. And I think it’s going to work out very well.”<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz rejected US President Donald Trump’s Wednesday claim that Israel would withdraw from Lebanon, saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,54,42,86,1031,46,2723,88,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-532684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-lebanon","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\/532684","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=532684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}