{"id":51317,"date":"2019-11-20T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51317"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:15:13","slug":"lebanons-hezbollah-slams-u-s-recognition-of-israeli-settlements-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51317","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah Slams U.S. Recognition Of Israeli Settlements In West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Nov 20 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah, slammed the announcement by U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, that legitimises Israeli settlements in the West Bank, al-Manar local news website reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Pompeo&#8217;s announcement is illegitimate, unacceptable and illegal, as it contradicts international conventions which the United States pretends to commit to,&#8221; Hezbollah said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new step is a clear attempt by Washington, to eliminate the Palestinian cause, but will not change anything on the ground, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Palestinian people will keep on fighting until they fully recuperate their lands,&#8221; the statement noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pompeo announced on Monday that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will no longer abide by a 1978 State Department legal opinion, that the Israeli settlements in the West Bank were &#8220;inconsistent with international law.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Nov 20 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah, slammed the announcement by U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, that legitimises Israeli settlements in the West Bank, al-Manar local news website reported. &#8220;Pompeo&#8217;s announcement is illegitimate, unacceptable and illegal, as it contradicts international conventions which the United States pretends to commit to,&#8221; Hezbollah said in a statement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,194,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51317"}],"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=51317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}