{"id":69170,"date":"2019-08-28T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T11:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=69170"},"modified":"2019-08-28T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T11:24:52","slug":"israel-will-defend-itself-by-any-means-says-pm%e2%80%89benjamin-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/israel-will-defend-itself-by-any-means-says-pm%e2%80%89benjamin-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel will defend itself by any means, says PM\u2009Benjamin Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit back at the critics following a series of recent air strikes across the Middle East.It comes after reports of strikes against Iranian targets and Iran-backed militias in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.Israel\u2019s military rarely acknowledges operations in Syria, but said on Saturday that it had struck several sites and thwarted an Iranian attack on Israel \u201cusing killer drones\u201d.To curb Iranian influence, Israel is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the country erupted into civil war 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, two drones that the Lebanese army said were Israeli crashed in the southern Beirut district of Dahia, which is dominated by Hezbollah.One of the drones hit a building that houses Hezbollah\u2019s media office, while the other exploded and crashed nearby, causing material damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel has not said it carried out these attacks, but Lebanese President Michel Aoun has blamed Israel, saying it was \u201csimilar to a declaration of war\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has also pledged that the group\u2019s fighters would shoot down any drones that entered Lebanese airspace.Meanwhile, in Iraq, paramilitary factions blamed Israel for strikes on Sunday against military sites and weapons depots.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit back at the critics following a series of recent air strikes across the Middle East.It comes after reports of strikes against Iranian targets and Iran-backed militias in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.Israel\u2019s military rarely acknowledges operations in Syria, but said on Saturday that it had struck several sites and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69172,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170\/revisions\/69172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}