{"id":77011,"date":"2026-04-12T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/12\/middle-east-crisis-live-us-iran-pakistan-peace-talks-jd-vance-delegation-leaves-without-a-deal"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:17:11","slug":"middle-east-crisis-live-vance-leaves-pakistan-as-historic-peace-talks-with-iran-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77011","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strike kills paramedic, says Lebanese Red Cross \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed. Our live coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/13\/iran-war-live-news-ceasefire-peace-talks-us-trump-strait-hormuz-blockade-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates\">continues here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A post about an hour ago on the Israel Defense Forces Telegram channel claimed that overnight, the IDF \u201cidentified a rocket launcher positioned and ready to launch toward the State of Israel in the area of Jouaiyya in southern Lebanon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the identification, the launcher was struck and dismantled in a rapid closure cycle, thwarting the launch before it could be carried out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/12\/middle-east-crisis-live-us-iran-pakistan-peace-talks-jd-vance-delegation-leaves-without-a-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed. Our live coverage continues hereA post about an hour ago on the Israel Defense Forces Telegram channel claimed that overnight, the IDF \u201cidentified a rocket launcher positioned and ready to launch toward the State of Israel in t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5254,"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":[415,3041,448,1005,869,212,60,3511,45,3510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-hezbollah","category-iran","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77011","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\/5254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77011"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77032,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77011\/revisions\/77032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}