{"id":615139,"date":"2026-06-01T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615139\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:43:11","slug":"israel-pm-orders-strikes-on-beirut-suburbs-as-hezbollah-conflict-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615139\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel PM orders strikes on Beirut suburbs as Hezbollah conflict escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to a US official, he proposed that, as a first step, Lebanese officials should pressure Hezbollah to stop its attacks on Israel and that, in return, Israel would refrain from escalation in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The official said this would create space for gradual de-escalation and an effective cessation of hostilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came after Israeli troops occupying southern Lebanon crossed the Litani river to seize the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle that sits on top of a strategically important ridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said their campaign was &#8220;not over&#8221; and that they were &#8220;determined to crush Hezbollah&#8217;s power&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel on Saturday of pursuing a &#8220;scorched-earth policy and collective punishment&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a US official, he proposed that, as a first step, Lebanese officials should pressure Hezbollah to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-615139","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}