{"id":4319,"date":"2026-06-02T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/trump-halts-israeli-troops-before-beirut\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:00:34","slug":"trump-halts-israeli-troops-before-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/trump-halts-israeli-troops-before-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump halts Israeli troops before Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What exactly Trump announced<\/h2>\n<p>Trump in a post on Truth Social stated that he had a <em>particularly productive phone call<\/em> with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which <strong>it was agreed that no troops will be sent to Beirut<\/strong> and that any <strong>forces<\/strong> that were heading toward the city <strong>have already returned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the American President mentioned that he communicated through <em>highly placed Representatives<\/em> with Hezbollah as well, with whom <strong>it was agreed that hostilities will stop \u2014 with Israel and Hezbollah mutually committing<\/strong> not to launch attacks against each other.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back. Likewise, through highly placed Representatives, I had a very good call with Hezbollah,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RGKd9tQiCD\">pic.twitter.com\/RGKd9tQiCD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Commentary Donald J Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpTruthOnX\/status\/2061500704708337768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>What preceded this \u2014 Hezbollah ready to stop<\/h3>\n<p>A Lebanese official told <em>Reuters<\/em> that Hezbollah informed the U.S., through Lebanese parliament speaker <strong>Nabih Berri<\/strong>, that it is <strong>willing to stop attacks on northern Israel, provided Israel does not bomb Beirut and its suburbs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few minutes before Trump&#8217;s post, two Israeli sources reported that Israel was awaiting final approval from the American President to begin operations in the southern suburbs of Beirut. This waiting confirms the <strong>role of Washington as a decisive factor<\/strong> in Tel Aviv&#8217;s operational choices.<\/p>\n<h3>The situation on the ground<\/h3>\n<p>The Beirut government condemns the Israeli <em>scorched earth policy,<\/em> but defends its decision to continue direct contacts with Tel Aviv under American mediation.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes at a critical juncture, as the Israeli strategy in Lebanon had already intensified concerns in the West about a <strong>broader conflict that could &#8220;suck&#8221; the U.S. into the events as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"nfg-meta\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;font-size:0;height:0;overflow:hidden;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">nfg-origin:gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump announced Israeli troops will not enter Beirut and brokered a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah following talks with Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[4673,173,196,2723,96,279,281,1923,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beirut","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-military-deployment","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}