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- United States President Donald Trump said he asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pull his troops back from Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, and also spoke with Hezbollah representatives, who “agreed to stop shooting” at Israeli forces.
- The office of Israel’s prime minister said later that Netanyahu had told Trump that attacks on Beirut would take place if Hezbollah continues to fire “at our cities and citizens”, while Israeli forces will “operate as planned in southern Lebanon”.
- Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that Israeli air attacks were ongoing in southern Lebanon, with at least two people injured overnight.
- Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said he told Lebanon’s Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri that if Israel’s “aggression against Lebanon continues”, Tehran “will not only halt the path of negotiations” with the US, “but we will also be in direct confrontation with the enemy”.
- Despite Tehran’s warning, Trump said negotiations with Iran were “continuing at a rapid pace”.
- The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have killed 3,433 people since March, with 10,395 injured.
- Source: Aljazeera
