{"id":472165,"date":"2026-06-02T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/472165\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:30:10","slug":"israel-and-hezbollah-exchange-fire-despite-trump-announcing-breakthrough-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/472165\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire despite Trump announcing breakthrough agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            02\/06\/2026 &#8211; 11:41 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire on Tuesday, just hours after US President Donald Trump said the two sides had agreed to halt hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Trump wrote on Truth Social that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had turned back troops following a request not to carry out a planned raid on Beirut. He added that, through intermediaries, Hezbollah had also agreed to cease attacks, with Israel expected to reciprocate.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the warring parties appeared to contradict Trump&#8217;s announcement, with Israel conducting strikes on southern Lebanon and Hezbollah firing into northern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no clear public confirmation from either side that a formal ceasefire is in place.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu signalled that Israeli operations could continue, saying Israel would strike targets in Beirut if Hezbollah did not stop attacks on Israeli towns and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s authorities said Hezbollah had agreed to a US-backed proposal for a \u201cmutual cessation of attacks\u201d, under which Israel would halt strikes on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs in exchange for an end to cross-border fire.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed violence follows a sharp escalation in recent days, with Israeli forces carrying out their deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades and conducting heavy bombardment, including threats to strike Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, a stronghold of Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Lebanon are scheduled to hold talks on Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>The hostilities also threaten to undermine the emerging deal to extend the ceasefire in the Iran war. Trump said yesterday that indirect talks with Iran were continuing at a &#8220;rapid pace.&#8221; Tehran wants any agreement to include Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 02\/06\/2026 &#8211; 11:41 GMT+2 Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire on Tuesday, just hours after US President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,85,46,26068,43,1032],"class_list":["post-472165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-donald-trump","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-hezbollah-conflict","tag-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}