Middle East crisis live: Iran announces end of attacks against Israel as Trump claims both sides want ‘immediate ceasefire’
Israel claimed it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after it said the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group fired rockets at northern Israel. The Israeli attack hit two apartments in two separate buildings, Lebanon’s state news agency reported, killing two people.Damage is seen at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential apartment in the Mreijeh area of Beirut's southern suburbs on 7 June 2026. Netanyahu shows no signs of wanting to stop the war on Lebanon, which makes it hard to see how Trump can negotiate an end to the war on Iran as Tehran insists that the conflict can only end when attacks on “all fronts” have ceased.ShareUpdated at 03.44 EDT
- ▪Israel claimed it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after it said the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group fired rockets at northern Israel.
- ▪The Israeli attack hit two apartments in two separate buildings, Lebanon’s state news agency reported, killing two people.Damage is seen at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential apartment in the Mreijeh area of Beirut
- ▪Netanyahu shows no signs of wanting to stop the war on Lebanon, which makes it hard to see how Trump can negotiate an end to the war on Iran as Tehran insists that the conflict can only end when attacks on “all fronts” have ceased.ShareUpda
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03.34 EDTIran says US directly responsible for recent ceasefire breachesIran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said the US holds direct responsibility for the recent ceasefire breaches, adding that Israel’s military actions cannot be separated from US policies.“The actions of the Zionist entity within the region cannot be looked at in isolation from the United States,” he was quoted as having said at a press conference.Israel launched strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday in what Tehran viewed as a violation of the US-Iran ceasefire. Israel claimed it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after it said the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group fired rockets at northern Israel.
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