{"id":32427,"date":"2024-09-19T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32427"},"modified":"2024-09-19T22:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T03:47:45","slug":"us-defense-secretary-postpones-israel-trip-source-familiar-with-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32427","title":{"rendered":"US defense secretary postpones Israel trip &#8211; source familiar with issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has postponed a planned trip next week to Israel amid the escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese border, a source familiar with the issue said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The source did not give a reason for the postponment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The trip would have come at a time of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israeli-strikes-hit-multiple-targets-lebanon-2024-09-19\/\"><u>heightened tensions<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in the region after attacks that blew up Hezbollah radios and pagers, which Lebanon and Hezbollah have blamed on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The attacks killed 37 people and wounded around 3,000, overwhelming Lebanese hospitals and wreaking bloody havoc on the militant group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-defense-secretary-postpones-israel-trip-axios-reports-2024-09-19\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has postponed a planned trip next week to Israel amid the escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese border, a source familiar with the issue said on Thursday. The source did not give a reason for the postponment. The trip would have come at a time of&nbsp;heightened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24814,1239,10442,605],"class_list":["post-32427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-deferred","tag-israel","tag-us","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32429,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions\/32429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}