{"id":280670,"date":"2026-09-06T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/280670\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:22:46","slug":"lebanons-president-appeals-to-us-for-help-as-israeli-strikes-kill-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/280670\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s president appeals to US for help as Israeli strikes kill 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Washington and the international community to help stop Israeli attacks, which killed at least seven people on Sunday despite a truce and a framework deal aimed at halting the violence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel said it had targeted Hezbollah operatives and sites in response to a drone attack a day earlier by the Iran-backed group on its troops in the vicinity of a strategic south Lebanon ridge.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It reported no casualties but accused Hezbollah of a \u201cblatant violation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel this week said it had captured the Nabatieh-area Ali al-Taher ridge, which it considers part of its self-declared \u201csecurity zone\u201d in south Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hezbollah, which has not claimed any attacks for weeks, has not commented on Israel\u2019s declaration of control over the site.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Aoun said Sunday\u2019s strikes, which damaged government premises and destroyed an out-of-service hospital, were \u201ca dangerous escalation \u2026 reaching Lebanese state institutions\u201d and health facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Washington and the international community to help stop Israeli attacks, which killed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[6455,76310,100,6050,34,37,849,76476,93,7227,30306,10274,51,1705],"class_list":["post-280670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-arab-salim","tag-hezbollah","tag-international-community","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-joseph-aoun","tag-kfar-rumman","tag-lebanon","tag-nabatieh","tag-nabatieh-al-fawqa","tag-national-news-agency","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117225255465906442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280670","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=280670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}