{"id":56071,"date":"2025-10-26T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/netanyahu-says-israel-won-t-seek-approval-for-strikes-in-gaza-or-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:41:26","slug":"netanyahu-says-israel-won-t-seek-approval-for-strikes-in-gaza-or-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/netanyahu-says-israel-won-t-seek-approval-for-strikes-in-gaza-or-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says Israel won&#8217;t seek approval for strikes in Gaza or Lebanon despite ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Israel is an independent state. We will defend ourselves with our own forces, and we will continue to control our destiny,&#8221; Netanyahu told ministers at the start of his weekly government meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not seek anyone&#8217;s approval for this. We control our security,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to plans for the deployment of international peacekeeping forces in Gaza, Netanyahu said Israel would decide which countries could deploy troops there. &#8220;We have made it clear that Israel will determine which forces are unacceptable to us, and we will continue to act accordingly,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks followed a week of a diplomatic blitz of visits by senior White House officials aimed at reinforcing the fragile ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-96786 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-addresses-us-congress-washington-dc-july-24-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would not seek permission to launch strikes in Gaza or Lebanon, even after agreeing to ceasefire arrangements.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would not seek permission to launch strikes in Gaza or Lebanon, even after agreeing to ceasefire arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000096787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000096787,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-addresses-us-congress-washington-dc-july-24-2024logo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-addresses-us-congress-washington-dc-july-24-2024logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-addresses-us-congress-washington-dc-july-24-2024logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-addresses-us-congress-washington-dc-july-24-2024logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-addresses-us-congress-washington-dc-july-24-2024logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/israel-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-addresses-us-congress-washington-dc-july-24-2024logo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000096787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56071"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56071"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}