{"id":586933,"date":"2026-08-17T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/586933\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:16:09","slug":"israel-strikes-lebanon-as-u-s-prepares-fresh-iran-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/586933\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel strikes Lebanon as U.S. prepares fresh Iran sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon saw its deadliest day of fighting in months, heaping pressure on stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations while Washington preps fresh sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that it killed Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Lebanon a day earlier. A total of 11 people died in the Israeli strikes, making them the deadliest since the sides agreed to a ceasefire at the beginning of June.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes were in retaliation for a Hezbollah attack injuring three soldiers on Saturday. Israel said on Sunday it would strike the Iranian proxy group again if threatened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon saw its deadliest day of fighting in months, heaping pressure on stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations while Washington preps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,86,85,87,46,61,88,47,43,2200,4374],"class_list":["post-586933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestinians","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586933","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=586933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}