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After Iran suspended ceasefire talks over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, Trump made a call to Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives and said they will not attack each other.
US President Donald Trump with Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu. (File)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has told US President Donald Trump that Israel will strike Beirut if Hezbollah does not cease attacking Israeli cities.
“This stance of ours remains unchanged. In parallel, the IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon,” he wrote on X.
After Iran suspended ceasefire talks over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, Trump made a call to Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives and said they will not attack each other.
“I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back. Likewise, through highly placed Representatives, I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel,” Trump said in a post on X.
Trump also said that Iran talks were moving at a “rapid pace.”
A ceasefire has been in place since April 8 and has held despite occasional incidents, but talks on a deal to end the war have so far failed.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese embassy in the US said that Hezbollah had accepted a US proposal for a “mutual cessation of attacks.”
Earlier, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened to open “new fronts” and keep the Strait of Hormuz closed over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, state media reported on Monday.
“Iran considers crossing the red lines in Lebanon and Gaza to mean direct war,” state TV quoted the Guards’ intelligence organisation as saying.
It added: “In return, it is determined to carry out defensive operations by taking meaningful actions and opening new fronts, in addition to preserving the Strait of Hormuz equation.”
Netanyahu has vowed to push deeper into Lebanon after announcing that a large part of south Lebanon was now considered a “combat zone”, despite a ceasefire.
After the ceasefire came into effect on April 17, Israel established a “Yellow Line” about a dozen kilometres from its northern border, inside Lebanese territory.
Last week, Israel’s military declared all areas south of Lebanon’s Zahrani River — around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the border and including the cities of Tyre and Nabatieh — to be “combat zones” and told residents to evacuate.
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