{"id":76984,"date":"2026-04-09T22:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/09\/israel-bombing-lebanon-us-iran-ceasefire-condemnation"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:28:53","slug":"israels-bombing-of-lebanon-after-us-iran-ceasefire-prompts-condemnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76984","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel launches fresh strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli PM says he will continue to attack Hezbollah \u2018with full force\u2019 after attacks that killed more than 300 people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/09\/iran-war-ceasefire-live-strait-of-hormuz-israel-strikes-middle-east-crisis-latest-news\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Benjamin Netanyahu has said there is \u201cno ceasefire in Lebanon\u201d and Israel would continue \u201cto strike Hezbollah with full force\u201d as the country\u2019s military launched fresh strikes.<\/p>\n<p> The Israeli prime minister\u2019s remarks and latest attacks on what the IDF called \u201cHezbollah launch sites\u201d came shortly after Donald Trump said he had asked Netanyahu to be more \u201clow-key\u201d in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Friday, a US state department official said Israel and Lebanon will hold talks in Washington next week. The announcement came as Netanyahu ordered his ministers to seek direct talks with Lebanon focused on disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/09\/israel-bombing-lebanon-us-iran-ceasefire-condemnation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli PM says he will continue to attack Hezbollah \u2018with full force\u2019 after attacks that killed more than 300 peopleMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesBenjamin Netanyahu has said there is \u201cno ceasefire in Lebanon\u201d and Israel would continue \u201cto strike He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1247,3041,448,1005,869,212,60,61,554,45,47,631,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-hezbollah","category-iran","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76989,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76984\/revisions\/76989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}