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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke International security correspondent

Israel strikes southern Lebanon despite Trump’s effort to shore up ceasefire

Large plumes of dark and light smoke rise above Nabatieh after an airstrike
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon. Photograph: Adri Salido/Getty Images

Israeli warplanes have launched dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon despite a new agreement supposedly brokered by Donald Trump aiming to bolster the tattered ceasefire in Lebanon.

The US president said on Monday that he had stopped an imminent Israeli strike on Beirut and that he had spoken to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and representatives of Hezbollah and both agreed that “all shooting will stop”.

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