{"id":68436,"date":"2026-04-15T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/68436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:14:24","slug":"qa-replay-lebanon-attacks-truce-talks-and-the-human-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/68436\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A replay: Lebanon attacks, truce talks and the human toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 huqwQJ margin-lg-bottom\" id=\"el-0-PQXU4ROMA5BS3EFZ7N6GH4VETY\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/news\/us\/2026\/04\/14\/israel-lebanon-peace-talks-begin-in-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/news\/us\/2026\/04\/14\/israel-lebanon-peace-talks-begin-in-washington\/\">Talks between Lebanon and Israel<\/a> took place in Washington on Tuesday with \u201cproductive discussions\u201d on steps towards direct negotiations, the US State Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 huqwQJ margin-lg-bottom\" id=\"el-1-EJS3LJ7UPBENFCAMUDU3NGAGVM\">The talks came after the US and Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/news\/mena\/2026\/04\/08\/can-two-week-us-iran-ceasefire-pave-the-way-for-lasting-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/news\/mena\/2026\/04\/08\/can-two-week-us-iran-ceasefire-pave-the-way-for-lasting-peace\/\">agreed to a ceasefire<\/a> last week. Israel also agreed to stop attacking Iran, but continued to strike targets in Lebanon that it says are linked to militant group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/tags\/hezbollah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/tags\/hezbollah\">Hezbollah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 huqwQJ margin-lg-bottom\" id=\"el-2-CVJM5Q4NM5D23MD2SWVA2N7D7U\">In the past six weeks, Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 7,000, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 huqwQJ margin-lg-bottom\" id=\"el-3-UOTJIK5SZ5DLXOAOXMZFN4XATI\">Forced displacement orders have driven at least one million Lebanese people out of their homes and sparked fears that a land grab by Israel would result in the permanent loss of territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 huqwQJ margin-lg-bottom\" id=\"el-4-VZW2BWX6YRFWHMAW57S5VYURZ4\">Hosted by The National&#8217;s foreign editor Mohamad Ali Harisi, our panel, including Dr Paul Salem of the Middle East Institute and correspondents Nada Homsi, Nada Maucourant Atallah and Sunniva Rose, discussed the latest developments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talks between Lebanon and Israel took place in Washington on Tuesday with \u201cproductive discussions\u201d on steps towards direct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3560,100,34,37,93,273,153,20576,1705],"class_list":{"0":"post-68436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-digital-team","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-story","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-video-tabs","16":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116410086988927916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68436","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=68436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}