{"id":89006,"date":"2026-06-21T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/89006\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:45:10","slug":"israel-rejects-withdrawal-from-lebanon-ahead-of-geneva-talks-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/89006\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel rejects withdrawal from Lebanon ahead of Geneva talks &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-21T12:02:27+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News-<br \/>\nBeirut<\/p>\n<p>Israel<br \/>\n&#8220;will not withdraw from the security zone in Lebanon,&#8221; Defense<br \/>\nMinister Israel Katz declared on Sunday, as US-Iran negotiations opened in Geneva<br \/>\nwith the Lebanese file at the top of the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was<br \/>\nand is no restriction on the Israeli soldiers in Lebanon from operating to<br \/>\nremove threats,&#8221; Katz said, adding that all of the \u201cachievements\u201d in the<br \/>\ncampaign in Lebanon are being maintained. The ceasefire announced Saturday, he<br \/>\nsaid, leaves the army in all positions within the security zone that protects<br \/>\nthe northern communities, a deployment Israel has no intention of reversing.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah held<br \/>\nIsrael fully responsible for violating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Israel-orders-ceasefire-in-Lebanon-but-reserves-right-to-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ceasefire<\/a>, calling on the United<br \/>\nStates and other countries to pressure Israel into compliance. The group&#8217;s<br \/>\noperations room stated that its fighters are &#8220;in full readiness to defend<br \/>\ntheir land, whatever the sacrifices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the<br \/>\nceasefire announcement, the Lebanese Army engineering units started defusing<br \/>\nunexploded aerial bombs weighing between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds in the towns of<br \/>\nTibnin and Khirbet Silm in the Bint Jbeil district, and Majdal Silm, Debin, and<br \/>\nBlat in the Marjayoun district, transferring them to safe locations. The army<br \/>\nsaid units worked to &#8220;open main and secondary roads in Debin and<br \/>\nBlat,&#8221; and urged residents to exercise caution before returning to<br \/>\nsouthern border villages, citing the danger of &#8220;Israeli violations and<br \/>\naggressions&#8221; and unexploded ordnance.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0648\u0627\u0635\u0644\u062a \u0648\u062d\u062f\u0627\u062a \u0645\u062e\u062a\u0635\u0629 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0634 \u062a\u0641\u0643\u064a\u0643 \u0642\u0646\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0637\u064a\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0645\u0646\u0641\u062c\u0631\u0629 \u0645\u0646 \u0645\u062e\u0644\u0641\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u0648\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644\u064a (\u0632\u0646\u0629 \u0623\u0644\u0641 \u0628\u0627\u0648\u0646\u062f \u0648\u0623\u0644\u0641\u064e\u064a \u0628\u0627\u0648\u0646\u062f) \u0641\u064a \u0628\u0644\u062f\u0627\u062a: \u062a\u0628\u0646\u064a\u0646 \u0648\u062e\u0631\u0628\u0629 \u0633\u0644\u0645 (\u0628\u0646\u062a \u062c\u0628\u064a\u0644) \u0648\u0645\u062c\u062f\u0644 \u0633\u0644\u0645 \u0648\u062f\u0628\u064a\u0646 \u0648\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0637 (\u0645\u0631\u062c\u0639\u064a\u0648\u0646)\u060c \u0648\u0639\u0645\u0644\u062a \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0646\u0642\u0644\u0647\u0627 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0622\u0645\u0646\u0629 \u0644\u0625\u062c\u0631\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0627\u0632\u0645 \u0628\u0634\u0623\u0646\u0647\u0627\u060c \u062d\u0641\u0627\u0638\u064b\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u0627\u0637\u0646\u064a\u0646 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0627\u0637\u0642\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XK9p8W8GIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XK9p8W8GIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0634 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646\u064a (@LebarmyOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LebarmyOfficial\/status\/2068625801608659069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 21, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>4,057 Lebanese<br \/>\nkilled in Israeli strikes and 12,121 wounded since March 2 through Saturday,<br \/>\naccording to Lebanon&#8217;s Ministry of Public Health. Israeli army figures recorded<br \/>\n30 soldiers killed and dozens wounded since the start of operations, including<br \/>\nseven deaths since Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/World\/Preliminary-US-Iran-talks-begin-in-Switzerland-with-Lebanon-in-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Geneva<\/a>,<br \/>\nIranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ismail Baqaei confirmed that Iran would<br \/>\nnot advance to the next phase of nuclear and sanctions talks with Washington<br \/>\nbefore a ceasefire in Lebanon is reached, directly linking the nuclear<br \/>\ndiplomacy track to conditions on the ground in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-21T12:02:27+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Israel &#8220;will not withdraw from the security&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1979,9106,65,1731,45052,42348,4871],"class_list":["post-89006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-breaking","tag-ceasefire","tag-geneva","tag-israel","tag-israel-rejects-withdrawal-from-lebanon-ahead-of-geneva-talks","tag-lebanon","tag-us-iran-talks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116788168252361234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}