{"id":82779,"date":"2026-05-07T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82779"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:44:58","slug":"israel-army-investigating-after-soldier-seen-desecrating-virgin-mary-statue-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/israel-army-investigating-after-soldier-seen-desecrating-virgin-mary-statue-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Army Investigating After Soldier Seen Desecrating Virgin Mary Statue In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From E<em>uro News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/74\/98\/33\/1536x864_cmsv2_e73e3329-146e-5669-8c8f-6dc95ba5f2f4-9749833.jpg\" alt=\"An IDF soldier places a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in Lebanon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said on Thursday it would investigate after a soldier was photographed placing a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>An image appearing to show an Israeli soldier with his arm around the revered Christian figure and holding a cigarette up to her mouth was widely shared on social media on Wednesday.\u00a0When asked for its response to the image, the Israeli military said it &#8220;views the incident with utmost severity and emphasises that the conduct of the soldier completely deviates from the values expected of its personnel.&#8221;<\/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=\"1778141558\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Israel Army Investigating After Soldier Seen Desecrating Virgin Mary Statue In Lebanon\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Euro News: The Israeli military said on Thursday it would investigate after a soldier was photographed placing a cigarette.<\/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-82779","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\/82779","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=82779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82788,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82779\/revisions\/82788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}