{"id":79,"date":"2026-03-16T23:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:33:29","slug":"israeli-dm-declares-start-of-ground-operation-in-lebanon-singles-out-shiite-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Israeli DM Declares Start of Ground Operation in Lebanon, Singles Out \u201cShiite Residents\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz officially declared on Monday the start of a ground operation in Lebanon, even as the occupation army has largely failed to push forward along the border since the launch of the Israeli aggression on March 2, facing\u00a0stiff resistance\u00a0from Hezbollah fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a security assessment with senior Israeli military and defense officials, Katz said the operation \u201cis intended to dismantle militant infrastructure and prevent attacks on residents of the Galilee and other northern areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe IDF has begun a ground maneuver in Lebanon to remove threats and protect the residents of the Galilee and the north,\u201d Katz said, referring to Israeli occupation forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz officially declared on Monday the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[10,14,11],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hezbollah","category-world","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","wpcat-27-id","wpcat-3-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/islamicaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}