Israel seizes more territory in southern Lebanon and threatens to keep holding it.<\/p>\n
It took just two days for Lebanon to be dragged into the US-Israeli war against Iran.<\/p>\n
After a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect in Lebanon in November 2024, cross-border violence did not really end.<\/p>\n
Now, nearly one million people have been forced from their homes.<\/p>\n
The UN chief said Lebanon is part of a war it did not choose, but Israel is ramping up its offensive.<\/p>\n
The Israeli defence minister says that if the Lebanese government will not rein in Hezbollah, Israel will.<\/p>\n
So, what happens if it does? And what does that mean for civilians?<\/p>\n
Presenter:<\/strong> James Bays<\/p>\n Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Nadim Houry \u2013 Executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative<\/p>\n Maureen Philippon \u2013 Norwegian Refugee Council\u2019s country director for Lebanon<\/p>\n Nicholas Noe \u2013 Editor-in-chief of the Beirut-based news service, Mideastwire.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Israel seizes more territory in southern Lebanon and threatens to keep holding it. It took just two days for Lebanon to be dragged into the US-Israeli war against Iran. After a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect in Lebanon in November 2024, cross-border violence did not really end. Now, nearly one million people … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}