{"id":597809,"date":"2021-07-20T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597809"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:05:46","slug":"israel-strikes-terrorists-in-lebanon-after-rocket-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-strikes-terrorists-in-lebanon-after-rocket-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Strikes Terrorists in Lebanon After Rocket Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-strikes-terrorists-in-lebanon-after-rocket-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597809&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.701449275362\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Counterstrike launched at suspected Iran-backed militia&#8217;s weapons depot<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Israeli-flag-736x488-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Israeli-flag-scaled-e1621885271905.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Israeli-flag-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Israeli-flag-1024x679.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Israeli-flag-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Israeli-flag-1536x1018.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Israeli-flag-2048x1358.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Israeli-flag-1400x928.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA picture taken on May 20, 2021, from the northern Israeli town of Metula near the border with Lebanon, shows Lebanese army soldiers on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Kfarkila. &#8211; The Israeli Palestinian ongoing military conflict has many eyes trained on the Lebanese border for a reaction from the Iran-backed Hezbollah,  but observers argue the Iran-backed movement is unlikely to risk an all-out conflict. (Photo by JALAA MAREY \/ AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 July 20, 2021 11:50 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"60.997457088366\">\n<p>Israel Defense Forces struck terrorist targets in Lebanon on Tuesday morning in response to a rocket attack likely from Hezbollah militants.<\/p>\n<p>The vaunted Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted one missile targeting northern Israel. A second missile landed in a vacant area inside the country. Israeli authorities did not report any casualties. Israel Defense Forces returned fire on the source of the missiles in southern Lebanon, where several Iranian-backed Palestinian terror groups operate. One human rights monitor said the Israeli strike targeted weapons depots possessed by Iran-backed militia.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Benny Gantz said blame falls on Lebanon for the attack, since it harbors terrorist groups hostile to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel will act against any threat to its sovereignty and its citizens, and will respond in accordance to its interests\u2014at the relevant time and place,&#8221; Gantz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/rocket-warning-sirens-sound-in-northern-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;[Israel] will not allow the social, political, and economic crisis in Lebanon to turn into a security threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the Gaza conflict in May, rocket and drone strikes came from southern Lebanon, raising alarm bells that Iran-backed Hezbollah would join Hamas in shelling Israel. Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/israel-fends-off-attacks-on-its-northern-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a>, due to their advanced weapons technology, Hezbollah&#8217;s entrance into the conflict would prove highly dangerous. A Foundation for Defense of Democracies report published in May <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/2021\/05\/11\/hezbollahs-al-qard-al-hasan-and-lebanons-banking-sector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows<\/a> Hezbollah operatives remain deeply entrenched in Lebanon\u2019s financial system and political interests.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Counterstrike launched at suspected Iran-backed militia&#8217;s weapons depot  A picture taken on May 20, 2021, from the northern Israeli town of Metula near the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}