Israel, Hezbollah agree to ceasefire starting on Friday, officials say
The truce follows heavy fighting that killed 47 people in Lebanon and four Israeli soldiers, while planned U.S.-Iran talks were postponed.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump urged Israel to accept a ceasefire with Hezbollah, intervening personally to protect broader US-Iran diplomatic efforts amid escalating violence in Lebanon.
- The intervention followed a deadly surge in hostilities where Hezbollah killed four Israeli soldiers, prompting retaliatory strikes that killed at least 47 people and threatened to collapse the interim US-Iran agreement.
- A ceasefire took effect at 4 p.m. Friday, though Israeli forces remain deployed in southern Lebanon; an Israeli official stated, 'If Hezbollah does not attack us, then for us it is not a time of war.'
- The violence forced cancellation of planned US-Iran talks in Switzerland, yet President Trump defended the interim agreement as 'very popular' despite Republican pushback and criticism from allies.
- Washington and Tehran have 60 days to negotiate a broader settlement covering Iran's nuclear activities and sanctions relief, while the Pentagon reports needing $80bn to cover costs from the ongoing Iran war.
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Jerusalem. Israel and Hezbollah agreed yesterday to a cease-fire in Lebanon with immediate effect, after intense fighting in the south of the Arab country threatened to wane the interim agreement between the United States and Iran to end their war, an official from Washington reported; while a diplomat from the Persian Gulf, who called for anonymity, claimed that the truce was mediated “by Qatar, the United States and Iran.”
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