Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israeli forces had eliminated the threat of an invasion by Hezbollah militants during a visit to troops in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
His visit comes two days before officials from Lebanon, Israel and the United States<\/a> are due to hold direct talks in Washington.\u201cThe war continues, including within the security zone in Lebanon,\u201d Netanyahu<\/a> said in a video released by his office, which showed him wearing a flak jacket and surrounded by masked soldiers.\u201cWhat we are seeing is that we have thwarted the threat of an invasion from Lebanon through this security zone,\u201d he said, adding that he was accompanied by Defence Minister Israel Katz<\/a> and military chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir.Netanyahu said the ground operations inside southern Lebanon helped in \u201ccontaining the danger of rocket fire\u201d from Hezbollah<\/a> targeting northern Israeli communities, adding that Israeli forces were also \u201cdealing with Hamas\u201d in the area.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is still more to do and we are doing it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israeli forces had eliminated the threat of an invasion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[24177,41,1411,100,6761,423,34,37,2412,93,49,14485,1243,51,1705],"class_list":{"0":"post-64101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-bayada","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-hamas","11":"tag-hezbollah","12":"tag-home-front-command","13":"tag-idf","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-israeli","17":"tag-lebanon","18":"tag-middle-east","19":"tag-naqura","20":"tag-united-nations","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116393351836742293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64101","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=64101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}