{"id":327378,"date":"2026-05-27T07:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327378"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:30:24","slug":"senior-us-official-hints-washington-backs-israeli-escalation-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327378","title":{"rendered":"Senior US official hints Washington backs Israeli escalation in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Naharnet \u2013 May 25, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A senior U.S. official on Monday hinted that the Trump administration would support an escalation in Israeli military action in retaliation to &#8220;Hezbollah&#8217;s violations of the ceasefire,&#8221; U.S. news portal Axios said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hezbollah has ignored repeated requests to stop firing at Israel, including a recent ultimatum. Israel will never be expected to passively absorb attacks on its forces and civilians. This is not the Biden Administration,&#8221; the official told Axios.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. official said that since April 17, Hezbollah has fired over a thousand drones and over 700 rockets to try and derail ongoing negotiations between Lebanon and Israel. &#8220;The status quo is untenable&#8221;, the U.S. official said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. official stressed that Hezbollah is entirely responsible for the current situation. &#8220;It broke the ceasefire on March 2 and is now intent on denying the Lebanese people a path to peace and reconstruction,&#8221; the official added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. official Hezbollah is concerned about the direct negotiations between the Lebanese government and Israel with the support of the U.S. and sees it &#8220;as an existential threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A successful ceasefire led by the Government of Lebanon would strip Hezbollah of their power and their narrative,&#8221; the U.S. official added.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had instructed the army to escalate attacks against Hezbollah in a bid to &#8220;crush&#8221; the group in light of its repeated drone attacks on Israeli troops occupying south Lebanon and on north Israel areas near the border.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naharnet.com\/stories\/en\/320333-senior-us-official-hints-washington-backs-israeli-escalation-in-lebanon\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration signals its tacit approval as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu orders an escalation of the IDF\u2019s campaign in Lebanon <\/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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/327378","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=327378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327379,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327378\/revisions\/327379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}