Israel Defies Trump's Ceasefire With New Strikes on Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre killed at least three people on Tuesday, it has been reported, as hostilities cast doubt on President Donald Trump's claims of an imminent end to the Iran war.

It comes two days after Iran and Israel had exchanged fire for the first time since a ceasefire announced in April. They then announced Monday they had halted attacks on each other following Trump’s plea for them to stop “shooting” immediately.

Despite Trump again teasing a deal between Washington and Tehran, Tuesday’s strikes pave the way for further confrontation.

Lebanon was drawn into the Iran war when Hezbollah operatives fired rockets at Israel on March 2 in support of Tehran after U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic days earlier.

More than a million people have been displaced in Lebanon by Israel's targeting of Hezbollah, which the government in Beirut does not control. Iran has insisted there can be no peace until Israel stops its attacks on Lebanon.

On Tuesday, footage shared on social media showed smoke billowing into the sky above Tyre following the Israeli strikes, which Lebanese media reported had killed at least three people. The civil defense in southern Lebanon told Al Jazeera Arabic at least eight people were killed although this figure has not been independently confirmed.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued an evacuation order for residents in the southern Lebanese city, including those in its Christian quarter, to move north of the Zahrani river and that the presence of Hezbollah “endangers your lives.”

The IDF has said that it is carrying out strikes because Hezbollah had violated a ceasefire agreement and was targeting “Israel's home front.”

Israel’s demolishing of homes and presence in territory in the south of Lebanon has raised fears of a long-term occupation like the one that ended in 2000.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon come despite Trump's order to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt strikes.

Trump told the BBC that he had spoken to Netanyahu on Monday, stressing the need for “common sense” amid reports that the president is becoming exasperated with the Israeli premier. This came after Israel fired missiles at Iran on Monday, despite the U.S. president's request for it not to.

“We're very close to signing a very powerful deal,” Trump told the BBC, adding that if he tells Netanyahu to do something, “he does it.”

Iran Renews Threats

Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that Washington was well positioned to achieve Trump’s objectives in negotiations with Iran, although Tehran has played down chances of an agreement.

Iranian lawmaker Ali Haddad said on Tuesday that American military bases and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if Israel attacked Iran or Lebanon again and that “even under fire, concessions can be taken from the enemy.”

Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee, told CNN negotiations with the U.S. were being treated as an extension of the battlefield and that Tehran would not retreat from supporting what it calls the “resistance front.”

“The issue of Lebanon is very, very important to us,” he said.

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This story was originally published June 9, 2026 at 4:51 AM.