Trump Says Israel and Hezbollah Agree to Stop All Shooting After Netanyahu Talks

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back fighting after he held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with Hezbollah through mediators, adding in a social media post that there would be no Israeli troops "going to Beirut".

“United States President Donald Trump has declared that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to stop fighting, offering hope to huge numbers of people in Lebanon who have been fleeing an Israeli onslaught”

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Trump said Hezbollah had "agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel," as Israel ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut and Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel, including the outskirts of Haifa.

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The PBS report said Israel detected missile launches from Lebanon moments after Trump’s message and warned Israelis in part of northern Israel to take cover in protected spaces.

In Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes overnight on southern Lebanon left six people dead, including a Syrian citizen in a village near the city of Nabatiyeh, according to the state-run National News Agency.

Al Jazeera reported that Lebanon’s state news agency said Israeli airstrikes were continuing across southern Lebanon despite Trump’s ceasefire announcement, which Al Jazeera said it could not immediately verify.

Lebanon’s presidency said the proposed arrangement would mean "Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs would cease in exchange for Hezbollah refraining from carrying out attacks against Israel," while Al Jazeera reported that Israel’s government had ordered strikes on the area after its forces reached their deepest incursion point in Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

Israel’s defense minister Israel Katz said there would be "no calm in Beirut" if Hezbollah attacks continued, and he vowed to establish a military-controlled zone in the area of south Lebanon’s Litani River.

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The Guardian said both Israeli officials and Hezbollah made statements that cast doubt on the durability of the agreement, and it quoted Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah saying the group refused a partial truce offer to spare Beirut.

In response to the bombing order, the Guardian reported that Netanyahu said on X that Israel would attack Beirut if Hezbollah did not stop attacking Israel and its citizens, and that Israel will continue to operate "as planned" in southern Lebanon.

The BBC reported that UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper wrote on X that Israel’s escalation "has killed and displaced civilians, destroyed infrastructure, and eroded space for diplomacy," and that it "must end."

As the ceasefire claim collided with continued strikes, the BBC said Israel’s military captured the strategic site of Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, with Netanyahu describing it as a "decisive shift" in its offensive against Hezbollah.

“Israel extends its ground incursion into southern Lebanon and widens what it describes as a 'security zone', according to a statement issued Thursday by the head of its Northern Command”

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The BBC reported that the IDF warned more residents to evacuate a larger swathe of southern Lebanon and said the latest evacuation warning was the second time in recent days that Israel had told residents to leave the entire south of Lebanon below the Zahrani river.

Al Jazeera said large numbers of people fled the Dahiyeh suburb after Israel’s government ordered strikes, and it quoted reporting from southern Beirut that at approximately 07:00 GMT the Israeli prime minister and defense minister issued a joint statement and "people started packing whatever they could".

The Guardian reported that more than a million people have been displaced because of Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa valley, as well as the dozens of forced evacuation orders the Israeli military has placed across Lebanon.

PBS said an airstrike Monday afternoon in the port city of Tyre caused heavy damage to the Jabal Amel Hospital, with a video released by the Health Ministry showing shaken women and children inside the hospital where windows were blown out.