{"id":32325,"date":"2026-04-17T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32325"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:08:28","slug":"israel-banned-from-bombing-lebanon-us-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/israel-banned-from-bombing-lebanon-us-president\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Israel banned from bombing Lebanon: US President\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">United States (US) President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States has banned Israel from further bombing in Lebanon, using an atypically harsher tone than usual with the longtime US ally Israel.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIsrael will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are prohibited from doing so by the US. Enough is enough!!!\u201d Trump said in a social media post.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Trump also said any deal the United States reaches with Iran \u201cis in no way subject to Lebanon\u201d but the US will \u201cdeal with\u201d the militant Hezbollah situation in an appropriate manner.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Trump also said the US will get nuclear material from Iran.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cNo money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Trump\u2019s posts came after Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that passage for all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is \u201cdeclared completely open\u201d for the remaining period of the ceasefire.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15386,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-32325","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Trump also said the US will get nuclear material from Iran.","published_date":"","news_description":"Trump also said the US will get nuclear material from Iran.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32328,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32325\/revisions\/32328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}