{"id":41902,"date":"2019-09-12T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=41902"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:25:47","slug":"u-s-diplomat-concerned-over-lebanon-israel-border-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=41902","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Diplomat Concerned Over Lebanon-Israel Border Disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Sept 12 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces, said that, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Schenker, expressed worries over the Lebanon-Israel border disputes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Schenker believes that the sequence of recent events in Lebanon is not reassuring,&#8221; Geagea said, following his meeting with the U.S. diplomat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions have escalated in the past week between Lebanon and Israel, after a series of airstrikes conducted on Aug 24 by Israel Defence Forces in Syria, killing two Hezbollah fighters, followed by an attack on Aug 25 by two Israeli drones on Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two incidents prompted Hezbollah to retaliate a week later, by destroying an Israel military vehicle in Avivim, north of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly later, Israeli tanks fired artillery shells towards Hezbollah posts, near the Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras, from which the missile was launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah leader has given several speeches since the incident, while vowing to respond by all means to any attack against Lebanon.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Sept 12 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces, said that, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Schenker, expressed worries over the Lebanon-Israel border disputes. &#8220;Schenker believes that the sequence of recent events in Lebanon is not reassuring,&#8221; Geagea said, following his meeting with the U.S. diplomat. Tensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41902"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}