Israel Launches Strikes in Lebanon After Hezbollah Attacks, Talks Continue at US State Department

Israel and Lebanon held high-stakes talks in the US State Department after Hezbollah and the Israeli military traded strikes overnight, with the talks wrapping for the day and set to continue tomorrow.

“Trump cursed at Netanyahu in call over Lebanon escalation, sources say Trump accused Netanyahu of being ungrateful, sources said”

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CNN reported that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program would be “highly technical” and could take months, while also noting that the country’s top negotiator threatened escalation if Israel’s attacks on Lebanon continue.

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NBC News said Israel launched deadly new strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday after accusing Hezbollah of launching attacks overnight, despite President Donald Trump saying both sides had agreed to de-escalate.

In Lebanon, the Lebanese Civil Defense said on its Facebook page that six people had been killed in an Israeli strike Monday night in the village of Marwaniyeh in southern Lebanon, and it said one of its centers in Nabatieh was subject to “direct targeting as a result of a hostile Israeli airstrike.”

ABC News reported that President Donald Trump cursed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a roughly 15-minute phone call on Monday, with Trump asking Netanyahu, “What the f--- are you doing?”

The Guardian said the call came after Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to resume bombing the southern Dahiya area of Beirut to target Hezbollah, and it quoted an Axios summary of Trump’s remarks: “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me.”

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NBC News said the Lebanese Embassy in Washington stated Hezbollah accepted the terms of a U.S. proposal for a “mutual cessation of attacks,” which would also block Israel from attacking Beirut.

CBS News added that a senior Iranian military officer said Tuesday that a return to hostilities in the war with the U.S. seems “inevitable,” as “the Iranian nation will never surrender.”

Doctors Without Borders criticized a strike on a hospital in Lebanon on Monday, saying a strike in Tyre resulted in extensive damage to the Jabal Amel Hospital and four deaths and 127 people injured, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

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CBS News quoted Doctors Without Borders project coordinator Omar Ebeid saying, “These repeated attacks reflect a grave failure to protect the medical mission and underscore the urgent need to safeguard civilians,” while also describing Israeli warnings to Christians in Tyre about Hezbollah hiding in the city.

In parallel, Lebanon said it would seek to expand the ceasefire in talks with Israel in Washington, as more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon have been displaced, according to the reporting.

CNN said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told that the Israeli military would keep striking southern Lebanon “as planned,” hours after President Donald Trump declared that Israeli forces would not move on Beirut, leaving the talks and the ceasefire under strain.