{"id":80754,"date":"2026-04-23T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/80754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:34:10","slug":"trump-israel-lebanon-to-extend-cease-fire-for-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/80754\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Israel, Lebanon to extend cease-fire for 3 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 23 (UPI) &#8212; President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Donald_Trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Donald Trump\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced that Israeli and Lebanese diplomats agreed to extend their cease-fire by three weeks after talks Thursday at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after the president hosted the countries&#8217; ambassadors for negotiations along with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Marco_Rubio\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Marco Rubio\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, U.S. Ambassador to Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Mike_Huckabee\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mike Huckabee\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Huckabee<\/a> and U.S. Ambassador to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Lebanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lebanon\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lebanon<\/a> Michael Issa.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Meeting went very well!&#8221; Trump posted on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Hezbollah\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hezbollah\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a>. The Ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended by THREE WEEKS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward in the near future to hosting the Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, and the President of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun. It was a Great Honor to be a participant at this very Historic Meeting!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Thursday, a senior White House official told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/04\/23\/world\/iran-war-trump-news\/cfca063b-ef8d-5a17-8c18-a54f6e70a8c5?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> the ambassador-level negotiations originally expected to take place at the State Department. Israeli officials confirmed the meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/second-round-of-talks-between-israel-and-lebanon-begin-at-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Times of Israel<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The two countries agreed to a 10-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/04\/16\/lebanon-ceasefire-israel-attacks-pause-talks\/2751776373484\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cease-fire agreement<\/a> after a first round of talks in Washington, D.C., on April 17. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/04\/23\/lebanon-israeli-bombing-destruction-displaced\/6861776972813\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">truce is shaky<\/a>, though, as Israeli airstrikes have occurred since then, with Hezbollah responding with its own rocket fire.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776983650_145_This-week-in-Washington_1_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"645\" height=\"431\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed fiscal year budget for 2027 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Photo by Bonnie Cash\/UPI | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/News_Photos\/lp\/74626d7c36b18658d96cfe9d23e1e81d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">License Photo<\/a>\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 23 (UPI) &#8212; President Donald Trump announced that Israeli and Lebanese diplomats agreed to extend their cease-fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[38,100,37,93,210,12760,677,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-80754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-lebanon","12":"tag-marco-rubio","13":"tag-mike-huckabee","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116456407861596088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80754","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=80754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}