{"id":325899,"date":"2026-04-15T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=325899"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:39:08","slug":"israel-hezbollah-exchange-fire-after-israeli-lebanese-talks-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=325899","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Hezbollah exchange fire after Israeli-Lebanese talks in US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">BEIRUT, April 15 (dpa) \u2013 Israel and Hezbollah again exchanged fire on Wednesday, one day after historic talks between the Israeli and Lebanese governments began in Washington. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The Lebanese NNA&nbsp;news agency reported fatalities following Israeli airstrikes overnight and early on Wednesday in the south of the country. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The Israeli military has not commented on the report, but said only \"targeted ground operations\" were continuing in southern Lebanon, aiming to protect the population in northern Israel. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Israeli troops and the air force targeted Hezbollah members and military infrastructure in Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)&nbsp;said.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The Iran-backed Hezbollah militia meanwhile claimed responsibility for several attacks on northern Israel, where warning sirens were heard. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The IDF&nbsp;said it recorded around 30 projectiles from Lebanon early on Wednesday. According to the Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom, one man was slightly injured in the shelling.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Fighting has continued despite a temporary ceasefire in the war in Iran, which triggered the latest round of clashes in Lebanon.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">On Tuesday evening, the Lebanese ambassador to the US, Nada Hamadeh Moawad, and the Israeli representative in Washington, Jechiel Leiter, held talks. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">It was the first time in decades that Israeli and Lebanese representatives had come together for direct talks at a political level. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">According to US sources, the direct negotiations are set to continue and could lead to a \"comprehensive peace agreement.\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Israel wants to push for the disarmament of Hezbollah in the talks.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The Lebanese government, which is not a party to the war between Israel and Hezbollah, is aiming to achieve a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon.\n\n--NNN-dpa<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, April 15 (dpa) \u2013 Israel and Hezbollah again exchanged fire on Wednesday, one day after historic talks between the Israeli and Lebanese governments began in Washington. The Lebanese NNA&nbsp;news agency reported fatalities following Israeli airstrikes overnight and early on Wednesday in the south of the country. The Israeli military has not commented on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325900,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325899\/revisions\/325900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}