11 minutes agoTrump announces that Israel's truce has lasted for 3 weeks
Periskopi(2 months ago)
(2 months ago)United States President Donald Trump has announced that the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has lasted for another three weeks after his meeting with the two countries' envoys late Thursday. Despite the ceasefire, however, violence along the Israeli border has continued. The meeting went really well! ”, Trump wrote on Social Truth [...]
Despite the ceasefire, however, violence along the Israeli border has continued.
The meeting went really well! ”, Trump wrote on the Social Truth late Thursday.
The United States will work with Lebanon to help protect it from Hezbollah. The truce between Israel and Lebanon will last for three weeks”, he added.
The truce was meant to end April 26th.
Iran-backed Hezbollah is a militant group and political party at the same time, and controls most of southern Lebanon. It is considered a terrorist organisation by the United States, while the European Union has only put its armed arm on the blacklist.
The Lebanon government is not an active part in the conflict and has pledged to disarm Hezbollah.
Trump said he expects “soon to welcome Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanon President Joseph Aoun to a meeting.
Trump, vice president JD Vance, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, along with American ambassadors to Israel and Lebanon, were among those who met Thursday with “high-ranking representatives of Israel and Lebanon, according to the American president.
Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters hold photographs of Iran's late supreme leader, ajatolah Ali Khamenei, during a rally near the Iranian Embassy in Beirut in June 2025.
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Lebanon's Ambassador to the US, Nada Hamadh Moawawad, and Israel's ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, represented their countries in the talks.
Trump's announcement came even though violence escalated near the Israeli border, with both sides shooting at each other following charges of violations of the 10-day ceasefire that had entered into force on 16 April.
