{"id":663066,"date":"2026-05-24T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663066\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:56:08","slug":"us-denounces-hezbollah-push-against-lebanese-government-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663066\/","title":{"rendered":"US denounces Hezbollah push against Lebanese government &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-24T21:28:48+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Washington<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday<br \/>\ncondemned Hezbollah\u2019s \u201creckless call\u201d to overthrow Lebanon\u2019s government,<br \/>\nwarning that the group\u2019s \u201cthreats of violence\u201d would fail.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Rubio accused Hezbollah of<br \/>\npursuing \u201ca deliberate campaign to destabilize\u201d Lebanon and drag it back to \u201cchaos and destruction,\u201d while accusing the group of continuing attacks on<br \/>\nIsraeli positions and moving fighters and weapons into southern Lebanon despite<br \/>\nrepeated calls to respect the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1un4Zcfd2R\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/1un4Zcfd2R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecRubio\/status\/2058649161432436815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 24, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He also expressed the United States\u2019 support<br \/>\nfor the Lebanese government \u201cas it works to restore its authority and build a<br \/>\nbetter future for all its people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came hours after Hezbollah<br \/>\nSecretary-General Naim Qassem <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Hezbollah-leader-Disarmament-would-only-serve-Israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> the Lebanese government should step down if<br \/>\nit is unable to protect the country\u2019s sovereignty, adding that citizens have<br \/>\nthe right to \u201ctake to the streets\u201d to bring it down and confront what he<br \/>\ndescribed as a US-Israeli agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 2, Israeli attacks on Lebanon<br \/>\nhave killed 3,151 people and wounded 9,571 others, including women and<br \/>\nchildren, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. Hezbollah says its<br \/>\nretaliatory rocket and drone attacks against Israeli positions and troop<br \/>\ngatherings are carried out in response to \u201cIsraeli ceasefire violations and<br \/>\nstrikes on southern Lebanese villages that have killed and wounded civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-24T21:28:48+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Washington US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,158238,31737,3,452,453,25,290111],"class_list":["post-663066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-us","tag-us-denounces-hezbollah-push-against-lebanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}