{"id":14623,"date":"2026-04-11T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=14623"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:07:09","slug":"trump-netanyahu-tense-call-before-israel-announces-peace-talks-with-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=14623","title":{"rendered":"Trump Netanyahu tense call before Israel announces peace talks with Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump held a \u201ctense\u201d phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday pushing him to ceasefire talks with Lebanon, US and Israeli media reported on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citing a US and Israeli source familiar with the matter, CNN reported the conversation came shortly before Israel announced it would seek direct ceasefire talks with Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Israeli source told that Netanyahu came to understand that if he did not call for direct talks with Lebanon, Trump might simply declare a ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call marked at least the third conversation between the two leaders this week in which Lebanon featured prominently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the week, they spoke ahead of Trump announcing a two-week ceasefire with Iran. During that exchange, Netanyahu reportedly urged that Lebanon not be included in the broader framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day later, Trump pressed Netanyahu to scale back Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, following reports from Lebanese health authorities that 303 people were killed in Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg reported that President Trump at the 11th hour informed Netanyahu about Lebanon\u2019s inclusion in the ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump held a \u201ctense\u201d phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday pushing him to ceasefire talks with Lebanon, US and Israeli media reported on Friday. Citing a US and Israeli source familiar with the matter, CNN reported the conversation came shortly before Israel announced it would seek direct ceasefire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875","service":"facebook","timestamp":1775894866,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14625,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions\/14625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}