{"id":36093,"date":"2026-05-13T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/lebanese-source-contacts-are-underway-to-stop-israeli-escalation-ahead-of-talks-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:50:25","slug":"lebanese-source-contacts-are-underway-to-stop-israeli-escalation-ahead-of-talks-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/lebanese-source-contacts-are-underway-to-stop-israeli-escalation-ahead-of-talks-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese source: Contacts are underway to stop Israeli escalation ahead of talks in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_cdecb0238cd5a3407f487cd15d221e64.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Contacts are being made to stop the ongoing Israeli escalation in Lebanon, on the eve of the third round of talks in Washington between Beirut and Tel Aviv, a senior Lebanese source told Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are requests for ceasefire guarantees and the issue is being discussed between the relevant parties&#8221;, said the source.<\/p>\n<p>The source expressed the hope that &#8220;things will go well, despite the ongoing escalation on the ground&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Israel killed at least 15 people, including two children, and wounded several others on Wednesday in 64 attacks across Lebanon, including aerial bombardment, artillery shelling and wide-ranging operations, in fresh violations of the ceasefire announced on April 17 and scheduled to last until May 17.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon and Israel held two rounds of talks in Washington on April 14 and 23 in preparation for negotiations peace.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been waging an extended offensive in Lebanon since March 2, killing 2,896 people, wounding 8,824 others and displacing more than 1.6 million residents, according to official Lebanese data.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contacts are being made to stop the ongoing Israeli escalation in Lebanon, on the eve of the third round of talks in Washington between Beirut and Tel Aviv, a senior Lebanese source told Anadolu. &#8220;There are requests for ceasefire guarantees and the issue is being discussed between the relevant parties&#8221;, said the source. The source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-36093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36095,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36093\/revisions\/36095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}