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2026-06-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Trump announces fresh Lebanon truce as Netanyahu appears to call off Beirut strikes
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[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah keeps attacking north despite declaration of ceasefire, which US president reportedly demanded PM agree to: ‘I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel’
US President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
indicated on Monday that Washington brokered a fresh truce between Israel and Hezbollah after the one reached in April unravelled in recent days, though the Iran-backed terror group continued to target northern communities into early Tuesday morning and Lebanese media reported fresh IDF strikes.
Following Trump’s announcement, an Israeli source said Jerusalem agreed to postpone planned strikes on Beirut, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said they instructed the military to strike Hezbollah targets in the capital.
In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump wrote that he 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."
"He turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi!" Trump said, describing Israel’s attack plans as "a major raid of Beirut."
Israeli military sources however said no troops were actually en route to Beirut, contrary to Trump’s claim.
"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 added, without specifying with whom he spoke, while also claiming Hezbollah consented to not target Israeli troops.
"Let’s see how long that lasts — Hopefully it will be for ETERNITY!"
Prior to a phone call Monday with Netanyahu, Trump told CNBC that he would ask the Israeli premier, "What’s going on with Leb
 ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
Trump reportedly went on to lash out at Netanyahu during the call, calling him "fucking crazy" as he demanded that Israel agree to the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Axios cited a US official
Oh. Axios plus an unnamed, anonymous American official suggests someone is making things up… summarizing Trump’s message to Netanyahu as follows: "You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."
While US officials told the news site that Trump was aware Hezbollah has been firing repeatedly at Israel and that Jerusalem has a right to respond, he believes the IDF responded disproportionately in recent days, risking Washington’s efforts to secure a ceasefire extension with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
— which is conditioning a deal on a truce in Lebanon.
Trump "steamrolled" Netanyahu on the call, and "Bibi said, ’OK, OK, just make sure everything is taken care of,’" a US official told Axios.
US officials were also quoted saying that Trump told Netanyahu that he has kept him out of prison, a reference to Trump’s repeated public demand that President Isaac Herzog pardon the prime minister, who is in the midst of a lengthy corruption trial.
Netanyahu’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Why bother? Israel-haters want to believe the worst. TRUCE TERMS REMAIN UNCLEAR AS FIGHTING CONTINUES
Washington’s push for a new ceasefire came as the previous ceasefire brokered on April 16 has largely evaporated, with Hezbollah keeping up its relentless rocket and drone attacks and the Israel Defense Forces pushing ahead with an expanded ground operation and widening Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
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Trump did not clarify the exact terms of his apparent ceasefire, and there were conflicting indications as to what it entails from Washington, Jerusalem, Beirut and Hezbollah, with the latter claiming the truce not only prevents Israel from strikes in the Lebanese capital but the entire country.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
reportedly informed the US that Hezbollah was ready to sign a full ceasefire with Israel, with the bigwig in Beirut pledging to guarantee the truce’s implementation.
I don’t doubt that someone said it. But whether they can make Hezbollah actually follow through is a separate question. "I called the US ambassador to Beirut, Michel Issa, on Sunday and told him on behalf of Speaker Berri that Hezbollah will be ready to totally commit to a comprehensive ceasefire and we are ready to guarantee it," Berri’s aide Ali Hamdan told the Axios news site.
Oh? And what will yu do when they start acting up again the next day if not sooner? Axios said the ceasefire that Hezbollah is willing to accept would still allow Israel to keep its large buffer zone in south Lebanon.
That’s nice, since they have no choice in the matter. Berri has close ties to Hezbollah, but it is far from clear that the senior politician can ensure the terror group’s compliance with a ceasefire.
Q.E.D. Hamdan confirmed that the US proposed a partial ceasefire over the weekend that would require Hezbollah to stop striking northern Israel in return for the IDF committing to not striking Beirut.
A US official told Axios that Berri’s response to Washington’s proposal was "evasive and disappointing" — a charge rejected by Hamdan.
"The proposal we received was no Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel and that in return Israel will not bomb Beirut and then gradually the ceasefire will expand to other areas. Speaker Berri’s reply was, ’Why a partial ceasefire? Let’s have a full ceasefire," Hamdan said.
Berri instead proposed a full ceasefire on the ground, air and sea that would also include a cessation of Israeli home demolitions in southern Lebanon.
Hamdan told Axios that Berri has been able to exchange messages with Hezbollah’s secretary-general Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
, who is believed to be in hiding.
Which doesn’t mean Israel doesn’t know exactly where he is and has the site wired six ways from Sunday "We are sure Hezbollah will commit to a total ceasefire. We think it will be more productive. We know time is running out," Hamdan said.
Are sure and think? So indefinite and unreassuring. The same US official quoted earlier by Axios told the news site that he stood by his earlier characterization of Berri’s response.
Without a name, O Axios reporter, how are we to judge whether he is making stuff up, or you are, like so many of your previous sources? While the US has, for months, urged Israel not to strike Beirut, officials have refrained from doing so publicly, or even anonymously in the press.
"The US does not expect Israel to absorb ongoing attacks on its civilians by a terrorist organization," the US official told Axios, suggesting that Washington’s opposition to strikes in Beirut could soften.
There was no immediate response from Israel to Trump’s announcement, but after around two hours, Netanyahu said Israel would proceed with its earlier plans to strike Beirut, should Hezbollah not halt its attacks on northern Israel.
"I spoke this evening with President Trump and told him that if Hezbollah does not stop attacking our cities and civilians, Israel will strike terrorist targets in Beirut. This position remains unchanged," Netanyahu said in a Hebrew-language statement.
"At the same time, the IDF will continue operating in southern Lebanon as planned," Netanyahu said.
Separately, an Israeli source told the Ynet news site that Israel had postponed the planned strikes on Beirut at the request of the US, which had asked it to hold off as it worked to advance the ceasefire initiative announced by Trump.
Earlier on Monday, an Israeli official had told the news outlet that the now-postponed Beirut strikes had been coordinated with Washington. The outlet noted the possibility that the purpose of ordering the attack was to pressure Hezbollah into agreeing to the ceasefire proposal.
Shortly after Netanyahu’s statement, sirens sounded in the border community of Metula, which the IDF said were triggered by a rocket launched by Hezbollah that struck near Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon. Sirens were also activated early Tuesday morning in communities across the north, including the Upper Galilee city of Safed, where the IDF said it intercepted two Hezbollah rockets launched toward the area. In the Western Galilee, an apparent Hezbollah drone struck a military position close to the border with Lebanon.
There were no injuries in any of the attacks.
Lebanese media meanwhile reported several Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon in the wake of Trump’s announcement, though there was no immediate comment from the IDF.
Trump’s announcement of a fresh ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came after Tehran reportedly threatened to bolt talks with the US if the IDF didn’t cease its strikes in Lebanon. Then, following his announcement, he declared that talks were "continuing, at a rapid pace, with the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran."
Trump later explicitly linked the two, telling ABC News that he believed a deal to extend the US-Iran truce and reopen the Strait of Hormuz could be reached "over the next week" after fixing "a little glitch" that he said was Iranian anger over Israeli strikes on Hezbollah.
The sequence of events would appear to undercut US efforts to try to separate the war in Lebanon from its conflict with Iran. Tehran has insisted on tying the two, as it seeks to protect its Hezbollah proxy and continue influencing events in Lebanon. While the US and Israel have pushed back against such linkage, Washington’s effort to secure another Lebanon truce announcement just hours after Tehran threatened to abandon talks with the over the issue indicated that it the Trump administration was not as committed to separating the two fronts as Jerusalem is.
The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel two days after the US and Israel attacked its main backer, Iran. Since then, 26 IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor have been killed in southern Lebanon, 14 of them since a ceasefire was introduced on April 16. Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.
In Lebanon, the Israeli military has said that it has killed over 2,500 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since early March.
IDF doctor killed, 7 hurt by Hezbollah drone attack in southern Lebanon
[IsraelTimes] Cpt. Dr. Ori Yosef Silvester is the army’s 14th fatality since the start of the Iran ceasefire; Lebanon says heavy damage caused by strike near hospital in Tyre.
During the attack, shortly after noon, two explosive-laden first-person view (FPV) drones launched by Hezbollah struck an armored vehicle in the town of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, according to an IDF probe. The explosion from the drones killed Silvester and wounded the seven other soldiers.
In one incident on Monday evening, an explosive-laden FPV drone launched by Hezbollah struck an Israeli military position near the border community of Rosh Hanikra, according to the IDF. Earlier in the day, a rocket launched at the Kiryat Shmona area was intercepted, and two others struck near Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. There were no injuries in either incident.
In Lebanon, the IDF has been carrying out widespread airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in addition to its expanding ground offensive. On Monday evening, the military said that a Hezbollah missile commander was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon the previous day. The strike carried out by the Israeli Air Force in the Nabatieh area killed Mohammed Mousa Mteirek, a unit commander in Hezbollah’s missile array, according to the IDF. The military said Mteirek was responsible for the launches of hundreds of rockets and drones targeting Israeli civilians and IDF troops, including soldiers of the Golani Brigade operating at the Beaufort Castle.
The Golani soldiers directed the IAF strike, the military added.
Separately, Lebanon said an Israeli strike hit near a hospital in the southern city of Tyre on Monday, as the health ministry shared footage showing heavy damage to the facility. The state-run National News Agency said a strike targeting an intersection near the Jabal Amel hospital “hit a building and the parking lot, resulting in several wounded.”
The health ministry shared two videos showing damage inside a hospital ward, with rubble and debris on the ground, blown-out ceilings, blood on the floor and shattered glass, while smoke could be seen billowing from a fire at what appeared to be a heavily damaged adjacent car park. The IDF told The Times of Israel that it had targeted Hezbollah infrastructure in the Tyre area, and the reports of a hospital being hit were under review.
Iran freezing exchange of messages with US over Israeli attacks in Lebanon - Tasnim
[IsraelTimes] Report says Tehran and its allies have decided to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts, as Iranian FM warns strikes on Hezbollah violate truce.
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