{"id":537552,"date":"2026-07-12T09:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/537552\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:42:12","slug":"israeli-strike-on-southern-lebanon-kills-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/537552\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strike on southern Lebanon kills one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tBEIRUT: An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed a young motorcyclist on Friday, Lebanese state media reported, the latest attack despite a truce in the Israel-Hezbollah war.<br \/>\u201cA young man from the city of Nabatieh was martyred in a raid by an enemy drone that targeted him this afternoon, when he was riding a motorcycle\u201d in Kfar Rumman near the city of Nabatieh, Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency said.<br \/>It also reported other strikes in the area, wounding at least one person.<br \/>The Israeli military meanwhile said it targeted \u201ca Hezbollah terrorist operating near an access shaft of the underground terror infrastructure at the Ali Al-Taher Ridge, within the Security Zone where (Israeli) soldiers are operating,\u201d referring to a hill that overlooks the area of Nabatieh.<br \/>\u201cIn an additional strike, the (Israeli army) eliminated a suspect traveling in a vehicle who posed a threat to (Israeli) soldiers operating within the Security Zone.\u201d<br \/>Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the regional war on March 2 by attacking Israel, claiming it was acting in retaliation for the death of Iran\u2019s supreme leader, killed in US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28.<br \/>Israel responded with a large-scale bombing campaign and a ground offensive, killing more than 4,300 people and occupying territory near the border.<br \/>Israel has kept up intermittent strikes on south Lebanon, particularly in the Nabatieh area, despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah sites and operatives.<br \/>Lebanon and Israel recently reached a framework agreement that calls for Hezbollah\u2019s disarmament and a gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territory while Lebanon\u2019s army deploys into \u201cpilot zones.\u201d<br \/>However, the agreement \u2014 rejected by Hezbollah \u2014 does not set a timetable for Israel\u2019s withdrawal, and Israeli officials have also vowed that their forces will remain in a \u201csecurity zone\u201d 10 kilometers deep as long as Hezbollah remains armed.<br \/>Friday\u2019s strikes come as Lebanon and Israel are set to meet for a new round of talks in Rome next week, and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is expected in Washington on July 21, invited by his US counterpart Donald Trump.<br \/>In an interview with the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Aoun said that \u201cthe United States is the only party capable of exerting pressure on the Israeli government to prevent it from targeting the southern suburbs of Beirut, the infrastructure, or expanding the occupied territories in southern Lebanon.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWe want the American administration to help us regain all of our land.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIRUT: An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed a young motorcyclist on Friday, Lebanese state media reported, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-537552","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\/537552","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=537552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}