Israel and Hezbollah trade new attacks despite Trump intervention

The Israeli military launched deadly new strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday after reporting attacks from Hezbollah overnight, despite President Donald Trump saying both sides had agreed to de-escalate after Iran threatened to pull out of peace talks.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Trump said Monday night that he had spoken with both sides and that they agreed “all shooting will stop” after Tehran signaled that Israel’s intensifying military operations in Lebanon could derail efforts to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Talks with Tehran were ongoing, Trump said.The Lebanese Embassy in Washington said Hezbollah had accepted the terms of a U.S.

proposal for a “mutual cessation of attacks,” which would also block Israel from attacking Beirut.Its threat to do so had sparked panic in the Lebanese capital, after the U.S.

ally’s deepest incursion into its neighbor in 26 years.But despite the claims of a renewed ceasefire, clashes continued Tuesday morning.A hospital damaged by an Israeli strike that hit nearby, in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Monday.Kawnat Haju / AFP via Getty ImagesIsrael continued to launch its own strikes on Lebanon, with the Lebanese Civil Defense agency saying on its Facebook page Tuesday that six people had been killed in an Israeli strike on Monday night in the village of Marwaniyeh in southern Lebanon.It was not clear exactly when that strike was launched.Lebanon’s civil defense said Tuesday that one of its centers, in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, had been subject to “direct targeting as a result of a hostile Israeli airstrike.” It said the building was damaged, along with equipment inside of it.

The Lebanese Army later reported that two soldiers had been moderately wounded as a result of being targeted by an Israeli hostile drone in Nabatieh.The Israeli military told NBC News that it had launched at least one strike in Nabatieh, but said it w...

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