{"id":57605,"date":"2026-04-08T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/57605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:25:35","slug":"israel-says-battle-in-lebanon-continues-despite-iran-war-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/57605\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says battle in Lebanon continues despite Iran war truce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel renewed its strikes in southern Lebanon and urged residents in parts of Beirut to evacuate on Wednesday, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted the US-Iran truce does not extend to the war against Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hours earlier, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire brokered by \u2060Pakistan, potentially suspending a six-week-old war that has killed thousands, spread across the Middle East and caused unprecedented disruption to the world\u2019s energy supplies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Both sides claimed victory as the truce was announced barely an hour before US President Donald Trump\u2019s deadline to agree a deal or face obliteration.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has acted as a mediator in the Iran conflict, said the two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States applied \u201ceverywhere including Lebanon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-16lwkd e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775647535_142_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">01:31<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">US and Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire amid Pakistani mediation efforts<\/p>\n<p>US and Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire amid Pakistani mediation efforts<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Lebanese government official told dpa that Lebanon had so far not received any official communication regarding a ceasefire that includes the country, though Lebanese sources close to the Iran-backed Hezbollah told Reuters it had paused its attacks in \u200cline with the truce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel renewed its strikes in southern Lebanon and urged residents in parts of Beirut to evacuate on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[656,847,38,382,1411,100,34,37,93,2426,49,7227,650,351,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-57605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-beirut","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-hamas","13":"tag-hezbollah","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-lebanon","17":"tag-litani-river","18":"tag-middle-east","19":"tag-nabatieh","20":"tag-pakistan","21":"tag-reuters","22":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116368842607870104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57605","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=57605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}