{"id":261079,"date":"2026-06-09T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:29:07","slug":"iran-war-live-updates-trump-says-iran-downed-u-s-helicopter-over-hormuz-and-vows-to-retaliate-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261079\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran War Live Updates: Trump Says Iran Downed U.S. Helicopter Over Hormuz and Vows to Retaliate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli airstrikes pummeled the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens more, in the latest sign that a new U.S.-brokered cease-fire has failed to take hold.<\/p>\n

Hours before the strikes, the Israeli military had issued an evacuation warning for the entire city, which was home to roughly 100,000 people before the latest war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia, erupted in early March.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the warning included the ancient port city\u2019s Christian quarter<\/a>, underscoring how Israel\u2019s offensive was widening. Many residents have fled Tyre since the war began, leaving the Christian quarter as one of the city\u2019s last relatively populated enclaves.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said last week that it had \u201cidentified activity by dozens of Hezbollah operatives inside the Christian neighborhood,\u201d and called on residents \u201cto demand the removal of the organization\u2019s operatives from your areas.\u201d It provided no evidence for its claim.<\/p>\n

Israeli strikes on Tuesday also targeted towns and villages across southern Lebanon, including areas that were not covered by evacuation warnings, according to Lebanon\u2019s state-run news agency.<\/p>\n

The enduring conflict in Lebanon has become one of the central obstacles in President Trump\u2019s efforts to reach an agreement to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. For weeks, Tehran has insisted that any deal include an end to the fighting in Lebanon, but Israel has rejected efforts to connect the two conflicts.<\/p>\n

Israel and Lebanon agreed last week to a new cease-fire<\/a> following talks in Washington.<\/p>\n

But Hezbollah, which was not a party to the discussions, rejected the proposal because it required the group to stop firing without any immediate concessions from Israel. With the Lebanese government unable to compel the powerful armed group to abide by any truce, the cease-fire announcement has had little effect.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, an Israeli strike on the Dahiya neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Beirut,<\/a> where Hezbollah holds sway, prompted Iran and Israel to launch strikes against each other for the first time since a fragile truce took effect in April.<\/p>\n

Iran has since threatened to attack Israel again if it keeps up its offensive, including in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

A car loaded with suitcases leaving Tyre on Tuesday after Israel issued an evacuation warning for the city.Credit…Kawnat Haju\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of southern Lebanon\u2019s largest cities and renowned for its spectacular Roman ruins. The evacuation warning, which ordered residents to flee more than 15 miles to the north, prompted a new wave of displacement from the city.<\/p>\n

Emergency shelters quickly filled up, and rescue teams worked to evacuate older residents as panic spread through the city\u2019s streets, according to the Lebanese authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t ask 100,000 people residing in Tyre to leave at once,\u201d said the city\u2019s mayor, Hassan Dbouk, who remained in the city despite the Israeli warning.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people decided to stay simply because they have no place to flee,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The sweeping Israeli evacuation warning on Tuesday included the city\u2019s Christian quarter, which has long been seen as a haven in wars. During repeated bouts of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in recent decades, residents from other parts of the city had often sheltered in the neighborhood\u2019s harbor-side alleyways, an area that was once a favorite weekend destination for Lebanese.<\/p>\n

Since Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel in March, triggering Israel\u2019s latest offensive, the neighborhood had been spared the airstrikes that pummeled the rest of the city.<\/p>\n

As the fighting continued, the Israeli military said it had killed a gunman who had crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon and opened fire at soldiers near the border. The rare incident led authorities to instruct residents of two Israeli border villages to shelter in place, according to a spokesman for the local regional council.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said the incident was \u201cunder review,\u201d and did not immediately identify the gunman\u2019s affiliation with any armed group.<\/p>\n

Gabby Sobelman, Hwaida Saad and Johnatan Reiss reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli airstrikes pummeled the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1451,1448,1452,27306,1480,14670,61145,60,33408,1450,9,11,10,1069,5251,1554],"class_list":["post-261079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-benjamin","tag-defense-and-military-forces","tag-donald-j","tag-hezbollah","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guards-corps","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-netanyahu","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-trump","tag-united-states-defense-and-military-forces","tag-united-states-international-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}