{"id":40299,"date":"2025-01-05T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israeli-defence-minister-warns-hezbollah-ceasefire-in-danger\/05\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:37:36","slug":"israeli-defence-minister-warns-hezbollah-ceasefire-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israeli-defence-minister-warns-hezbollah-ceasefire-in-danger\/05\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Defence Minister warns Hezbollah ceasefire in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned that the ceasefire with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia is in danger, according to a report by the Times of Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Israel will be &#8220;forced to act&#8221; if Hezbollah fighters do not withdraw from southern Lebanon as mandated by the ceasefire agreement, Katz told the newspaper on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Katz reportedly emphasized that Israel is interested in maintaining the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">But, he said, this was conditional on the Hezbollah militants withdrawing behind the Litani River, around 30 kilometres north of the Israeli-Lebanese border, and on the Lebanese Army dismantling all weapons and terrorist infrastructure in the border area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">This has not yet happened, Katz warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The ceasefire has been in effect since the end of November and is set to initially last for about two months, until the end of January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">During this time, in addition to the Hezbollah withdrawal, the Israeli Army is due to leave Lebanon and the Lebanese Army is to strengthen its presence in the border area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/report-israeli-defence-minister-warns-191712722.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned that the ceasefire with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia is in danger, according to a report<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israeli-defence-minister-warns-hezbollah-ceasefire-in-danger\/05\/01\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}