Israel carried out fresh strikes in Lebanon as Donald Trump pressed Benjamin Netanyahu to hold back, sharpening tensions around a fast-moving ceasefire push with Iran.
Israel carried out new strikes in southern Lebanon on Tuesday as Donald Trump pressed Benjamin Netanyahu to hold back, undercutting a fast-moving effort to cool the wider conflict with Iran.
The latest reporting said strikes hit Tyre, a coastal city in southern Lebanon, after an evacuation warning. Al Jazeera said at least eight people were killed in the attacks, while earlier coverage from CBS reported five people were killed in a strike there on Monday.
Trump has publicly said Israel and Iran were looking to do an immediate ceasefire, and AP reported that he warned Israel not to strike Beirut. CBS reported that Trump spoke with Netanyahu on Monday morning as the fighting continued.
The problem for the ceasefire push is that the Lebanon front has not stopped. Israeli officials have said they will keep striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon even as talks and public messages suggest a possible pause in the Israel-Iran confrontation.
That leaves Lebanon at the center of the broader risk. Iran has said Lebanon should be included in any ceasefire arrangement, while Israel has rejected tying the Lebanon front to a separate Iran ceasefire.
The result is a fragile and incomplete de-escalation effort: public talk of a halt on one front, renewed attacks on another, and no clear sign yet that the fighting has been brought under a single agreement.
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