{"id":11957,"date":"2023-10-16T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11957"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:45:32","slug":"israel-will-destroy-lebanon-if-war-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11957","title":{"rendered":"Israel will \u2018destroy\u2019 Lebanon if war spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Israeli jets&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2023\/10\/15\/israel-palestine-latest-news-updates-hamas-gaza-day-9-live\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have started bombing in Lebanon<\/a>&nbsp;as the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) warned it would \u201cdestroy\u201d the country if Hizbollah entered the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The air raids came as the United States and the UK expressed fears that&nbsp; Israel\u2019s war with Hamas could \u201cescalate\u201d into a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2023\/10\/15\/hassan-nasrallah-capable-igniting-wider-war-middle-east\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conflict involving \u201cthe wider Middle East\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israeli strikes were carried out after anti-tank rockets fired by Hizbollah killed one person in northern Israel, in the most serious clashes outside of Gaza since the war began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tzachi Hanegbi, an Israeli national security adviser, warned the Iran-sponsored terrorist group not to start a war on a second front, threatening the \u201cdestruction of Lebanon\u201d if it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western nations have warned against any escalation in the conflict and have moved to try and prevent it spilling outwards, potentially drawing in Iran, with the US ordering a second aircraft carrier strike group to the region over the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/israel-destroy-lebanon-war-spreads-205301260.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/israel-destroy-lebanon-war-spreads-205301260.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Israeli jets have started bombing in Lebanon as the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) warned it would \u201cdestroy\u201d the country if Hizbollah entered the war.<br \/>\nThe air raids came as the United States and the UK expressed fears that  Israel\u2019s war with Hamas could \u201cescalate\u201d into a conflict involving \u201cthe wider Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli strikes were carried out after anti-tank rockets fired by Hizbollah killed one person in northern Israel, in the most serious clashes outside of Gaza since the war began.<\/p>\n<p>Tzachi Hanegbi, an Israeli national security adviser, warned the Iran-sponsored terrorist group not to start a war on a second front, threatening the \u201cdestruction of Lebanon\u201d if it did.<\/p>\n<p>Western nations have warned against any escalation in the conflict and have moved to try and prevent it spilling outwards, potentially drawing in Iran, with the US ordering a second aircraft carrier strike group to the region over the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/israel-destroy-lebanon-war-spreads-205301260.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,1302,1301,1545,194,360,108,115,158],"class_list":["post-11957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-invasion","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11958,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions\/11958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}