{"id":295209,"date":"2024-09-20T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=295209"},"modified":"2024-09-22T07:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:55:40","slug":"israel-escalates-attacks-on-lebanon-despite-warnings-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=295209","title":{"rendered":"Israel escalates attacks on Lebanon despite warnings from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Guardian \u2013 Sept 20, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon late on Thursday, hours after Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah\u2019s leader, threatened \u201ctough retribution and just punishment\u201d for the wave of attacks that targeted the organisation with explosives hidden in pagers and walkie-talkies.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said it had hit hundreds of rocket launchers which it said were about to be used \u201cin the immediate future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The bombardment included more than 52 strikes across southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/lebanon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Lebanon<\/a>, the country\u2019s state news agency NNA said. Three Lebanese security sources told the Reuters news agency that they were the heaviest aerial strikes since the conflict began in October.<\/p>\n<p>As Israeli jets roared over Beirut in a show of force earlier in the day, Nasrallah threatened retribution against Israel \u201cwhere it expects it and where it does not\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As tensions in the Middle East spiralled, senior diplomats from the US, Britain, Germany, France and Italy met on Thursday in Paris before a UN security council meeting planned for Friday. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, was to join his counterparts in the French capital after discussing the possibility of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Gaza<\/a> truce in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>US President Joe Biden believes there can still be a diplomatic resolution to escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, his spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House warned all sides against \u201can escalation of any kind\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Lebanese foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, warned that the \u201cblatant assault on Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and security\u201d was a dangerous development that could \u201csignal a wider war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/sep\/20\/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-launches-major-strikes-on-lebanon-as-white-house-says-diplomacy-urgent\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration may want to avoid an all-out war but it is no longer in control of the situation or of Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295211,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295209\/revisions\/295211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}