{"id":33015,"date":"2026-03-23T23:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/33015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T23:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:35:06","slug":"israeli-minister-calls-for-annexation-of-southern-lebanon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/33015\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli minister calls for annexation of southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      JERUSALEM\/BEIRUT \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Israel should extend its border with Lebanon up to the Litani River deep inside the country&#8217;s south, Israel&#8217;s finance minister said on Monday as Israeli troops bombed bridges and destroyed homes in an escalating military assault.<\/p>\n<p>The comments by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich were the most explicit yet by a senior Israeli official on seizing Lebanese territory in a fight Israel says targets Iran-backed Hezbollah militants.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon was \u200bpulled into the regional war on March 2 when Hezbollah fired missiles into Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JERUSALEM\/BEIRUT \u2013 Israel should extend its border with Lebanon up to the Litani River deep inside the country&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[1412,37,15037,93,49],"class_list":["post-33015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-israel","tag-lebabon","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116281116256409524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33015","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=33015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}