{"id":28359,"date":"2023-04-28T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/hezbollah-behind-roadside-bomb\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T20:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:44:39","slug":"hezbollah-behind-roadside-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/hezbollah-behind-roadside-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah behind roadside bomb in Israel last month, Israeli official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211;     Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah was behind a rare roadside bomb attack last month that wounded a motorist in northern Israel, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military said that security forces had killed a man carrying an explosive belt after he apparently crossed from Lebanon into Israel and detonated a bomb on March 13 near Megiddo junction in northern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>A possible link to Iran-backed Hezbollah was being investigated, officials said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on Channel 12 television whether a political crisis in Israel regarding the government&#8217;s plan to overhaul the country&#8217;s judiciary has emboldened Israel&#8217;s enemies, Hanegbi said: &#8220;We estimate that for now it may lead to operations that were not considered in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw operations like that by Hezbollah, for example the attack in Megiddo, which failed, but it was a kind of opposition we were not used to,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah could not be reached for immediate comment.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fought a month-long war in 2006 and have traded fire on several occasions since but have avoided a large-scale confrontation.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; editing by Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/hezbollah-behind-roadside-bomb\/israeli-then-minister-of-regional-cooperation-hanegbi-attends-a-session-of\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0YQ-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0YQ-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah was behind a rare roadside bomb attack last month that wounded a motorist in northern Israel, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said on Friday. Israel&#8217;s military said that security forces had killed a man carrying an explosive belt after he apparently crossed from Lebanon into Israel and detonated a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0YQ-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28361,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28359\/revisions\/28361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}