{"id":97110,"date":"2026-05-04T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97110\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:44:10","slug":"fighting-escalates-in-lebanon-as-hezbollah-says-there-is-no-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97110\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Escalates in Lebanon as Hezbollah Says There Is No Ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/break.webp\" alt=\"Photo: Bloomingbit\" width=\"646\" role=\"presentation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo: Bloomingbit<\/p>\n<p>Clashes are intensifying again in southern Lebanon, with tensions rising after Hezbollah denied a ceasefire is in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Bloomberg, a financial news account on X, reported on May 4 that Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said &#8220;there is no ceasefire&#8221; and claimed military action by Israel and the US was continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces said it had resumed airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon after detecting armed activity near its troops.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah said it carried out 11 attacks in a single day, describing it as its largest wave of attacks since the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Local reports said evacuation orders and additional airstrikes continued, causing casualties. The cumulative death toll has surpassed 2,600, with more than 8,000 injured.<\/p>\n<p>Markets are watching the possibility that any broader spread of conflict across the Middle East could increase volatility in energy markets and global financial markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Bloomingbit Clashes are intensifying again in southern Lebanon, with tensions rising after Hezbollah denied a ceasefire is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3982,16196,16204,16194,16195,16201,16200,16198,16197,16199,9693,16202,93,16203],"class_list":{"0":"post-97110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-bitcoincommunity","10":"tag-blockchain","11":"tag-bloomingbit","12":"tag-coincommunity","13":"tag-coininfo","14":"tag-coininvest","15":"tag-coinnews","16":"tag-coinreview","17":"tag-coinstats","18":"tag-cryptocurrency","19":"tag-ethereum","20":"tag-lebanon","21":"tag-solana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116516373328632840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97110","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=97110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}