{"id":3677,"date":"2026-04-08T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:19:09","slug":"macron-insists-that-iran-ceasefire-must-apply-to-lebanon-as-well-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3677\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron insists that Iran ceasefire must apply to Lebanon as well \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli defense minister said in late March that Israel would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5yx8knpr5no\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5yx8knpr5no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">remain in southern Lebanon<\/a> \u2014 a region it illegally occupied from 1982 to 2000 \u2014 even after the current conflict ends.<\/p>\n<p>Macron has repeatedly condemned attacks against Lebanon, one of France\u2019s closest allies in the Middle East, and urged the Israeli government to start talks with its Lebanese counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>France <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2038677866783633912\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2038677866783633912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">has also accused<\/a> Israeli soldiers of seeking to \u201cintimidate\u201d French military forces taking part in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the region.<\/p>\n<p>But it is unclear whether the Pakistani-brokered U.S.-Iran ceasefire \u2014 which the French president hailed as \u201ca very good thing\u201d \u2014 will extend as far as Macron hopes.<\/p>\n<p>Though Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said this would be the case, Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/netanyahu-backs-iran-ceasefire-says-lebanon-not-included-israeli-media-says-2026-04-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said overnight that<\/a> the ceasefire \u201cdoes not include Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israeli defense minister said in late March that Israel would remain in southern Lebanon \u2014 a region&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[857,555,735,36,5,50,63,3500,425,72,187,802],"class_list":{"0":"post-3677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-israel-hezbollah-war","16":"tag-lebanon","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-war-in-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}