{"id":163004,"date":"2026-06-16T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/163004\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:57:10","slug":"trump-slams-netanyahu-over-lebanon-offensive-calls-civilian-deaths-unacceptable-and-questions-israels-strategy-on-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/163004\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Slams Netanyahu Over Lebanon Offensive, Calls Civilian Deaths \u2018Unacceptable\u2019 and Questions Israel\u2019s Strategy on Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump underscored that the extended hostilities have cast a &#8220;negative light&#8221; on his diplomatic breakthrough with Iran. <\/p>\n<p>He further voiced strong displeasure regarding an Israeli strike on Beirut that was executed a mere two hours before the United States was scheduled to finalise the accord with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Amid intense, near-daily Israeli bombardments across Lebanon that have resulted in thousands of casualties, the US President strongly rebuked Netanyahu over the escalating civilian death toll.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in France, Trump remarked, &#8220;Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people are being killed. And you don&#8217;t have to knock down an apartment house every time you&#8217;re looking for somebody. Because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses. And they&#8217;re not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US President suggested that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa would be able to oversee the containment of Hezbollah with greater efficacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump underscored that the extended hostilities have cast a &#8220;negative light&#8221; on his diplomatic breakthrough with Iran. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[672,22784,2171,16821,9060,2561,93,51212,2560,51215,51214,17980,25651,51213,77],"class_list":["post-163004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-ahmed-al-sharaa","tag-beirut-strike","tag-civilian-casualties","tag-g7-summit","tag-iran-deal","tag-israel-hezbollah","tag-lebanon","tag-lebanon-offensive","tag-lebanon-war","tag-netanyahu-criticism","tag-syria-hezbollah","tag-tehran-talks","tag-trump-netanyahu","tag-trump-rebuke","tag-us-israel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116760375630563725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}