{"id":25349,"date":"2025-02-14T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/lebanon-rejects-israeli-request-to-remain-in-5-sites-in-south\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:12:15","slug":"lebanon-rejects-israeli-request-to-remain-in-5-sites-in-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/lebanon-rejects-israeli-request-to-remain-in-5-sites-in-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon rejects Israeli request to remain in 5 sites in south"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5348547.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Speaker Nabih Berri said on Thursday that the United States had informed him \u201cthat the Israeli occupation will withdraw from villages it still occupies on February 18, but it will remain in five points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI informed them in my name and on behalf of President General Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Judge Nawaf Salam of our absolute rejection\u201d of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Berri had met with US Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa Johnson and US Major General Jasper Jeffers.<\/p>\n<p>Under the ceasefire deal, Lebanon\u2019s military is to deploy in the south alongside United Nations peacekeepers as the Israeli army withdraws over a 60-day period, which has been extended until February 18. The Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah is also to leave its positions in the south over that period.<\/p>\n<p>But as the deadline draws closer, concerns are rising that the Israeli regime seeks to occupy Lebanese territory for a longer period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the responsibility of the Americans to enforce the withdrawal,\u201d Berri said.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228319\/Lebanon-rejects-Israeli-request-to-remain-in-5-sites-in-south\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Nabih Berri said on Thursday that the United States had informed him \u201cthat the Israeli occupation will withdraw from villages it still occupies on February 18, but it will remain in five points.\u201d \u201cI informed them in my name and on behalf of President General Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Judge Nawaf Salam of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}