{"id":69977,"date":"2026-04-16T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/middle-east-live-april-16-all-eyes-on-proposed-israel-lebanon-talks-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:16:44","slug":"middle-east-live-april-16-all-eyes-on-proposed-israel-lebanon-talks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/middle-east-live-april-16-all-eyes-on-proposed-israel-lebanon-talks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East Live April 16: All eyes on proposed Israel-Lebanon talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Amid reports of high-level talks between Israel and Lebanon later today<span>Intensified Israeli military attacks continued in southern Lebanon, including around the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil. Hezbollah rocket attacks also continued into northern Israel. In other developments, the US military announced on Wednesday that it has blocked 10 ships from navigating through the Strait of Hormuz, in line with the blockade of Iranian ports. Meanwhile, the Iranian military reportedly promised to increase disruption of shipping up to the Red Sea. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Stay tuned for live updates on this and other UN agencies. App users can follow the coverage <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/es\/css\/live-blog\/live-blog.css\"><em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Here<\/span><\/em><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid reports of high-level talks between Israel and Lebanon later todayIntensified Israeli military attacks continued in southern Lebanon, including around the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil. Hezbollah rocket attacks also continued into northern Israel. In other developments, the US military announced on Wednesday that it has blocked 10 ships from navigating through the Strait of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1454,1012,3145,9595,436,1011,1970,349],"class_list":["post-69977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bible-verse","tag-april","tag-east","tag-eyes","tag-israellebanon","tag-live","tag-middle","tag-proposed","tag-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69978,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977\/revisions\/69978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}