{"id":8769,"date":"2026-03-29T21:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:33:54","slug":"israel-strikes-beirut-and-orders-south-lebanon-evacuation-as-conflict-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/29\/israel-strikes-beirut-and-orders-south-lebanon-evacuation-as-conflict-mounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel strikes Beirut and orders south Lebanon evacuation as conflict mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israel has significantly escalated its conflict with Hezbollah by issuing sweeping displacement orders for southern Lebanon and launching heavy airstrikes that leveled buildings in central Beirut. These actions follow &#8220;Operation Chewed Wheat,&#8221; a coordinated missile and drone strike by Hezbollah targeted major Israeli cities. The humanitarian crisis is deepening, with nearly one million people displaced and a death toll exceeding 600 in less than ten days of fighting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 12, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/12\/israel-bombards-beirut-southern-lebanon-hezbollah\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has significantly escalated its conflict with Hezbollah by issuing sweeping displacement orders for southern Lebanon and launching heavy airstrikes that leveled buildings in central Beirut. These actions follow &#8220;Operation Chewed Wheat,&#8221; a coordinated missile and drone strike by Hezbollah targeted major Israeli cities. The humanitarian crisis is deepening, with nearly one million people displaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}