{"id":82313,"date":"2026-04-20T08:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82313"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:09:22","slug":"disturbing-image-shows-idf-soldier-smashing-jesus-statue-with-axe-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/disturbing-image-shows-idf-soldier-smashing-jesus-statue-with-axe-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Image Shows IDF Soldier Smashing Jesus Statue With Axe In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Mirror (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">An unsettling image of an Israeli soldier destroying a statue of Jesus Christ in Lebanon is circulating on the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">The Israeli Defense Forces conducted an examination of the image and confirmed it is a real photo of an IDF soldier violently smashing an important religious icon to pieces while stationed in southern Lebanon,\u00a0just days after Donald Trump&#8217;s unexpected move &#8216;alarmed&#8217; Benjamin Netanyahu. The IDF wrote on X that it \u201cviews the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier\u2019s conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776672445\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Disturbing Image Shows IDF Soldier Smashing Jesus Statue With Axe In Lebanon\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Mirror (caution: tabloid): An unsettling image of an Israeli soldier destroying a statue of Jesus Christ in Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82317,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82313\/revisions\/82317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}