IDF orders people to flee homes in Beirut as it warns of further strikes
The Israeli military has again ordered people to flee their homes in the southern suburbs of Beirut, as it warned of more strikes that have already devastated the Lebanese capital.
“Urgent warning to residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut … The Israeli army is continuing its operations and striking Hezbollah military infrastructure throughout the southern suburbs,” said Avichay Adraee, an Arabic-language spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Israeli strikes yesterday killed more than 200 people and wounded 1,100 others, according to Lebanese authorities. The IDF said it targeted sites of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, but Associated Press reported that several strikes hit densely packed commercial and residential areas without warning during rush hour, leading to widespread civilian casualties.
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“Urgent warning to residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut … The Israeli army is continuing its operations and striking Hezbollah military infrastructure throughout the southern suburbs,” said Avichay Adraee, an Arabic-language spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Israeli strikes yesterday killed more than 200 people and wounded 1,100 others, according to Lebanese authorities. The IDF said it targeted sites of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, but Associated Press reported that several strikes hit densely packed commercial and residential areas without warning during rush hour, leading to widespread civilian casualties.
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Donald Trump has again levelled criticism at Nato, after meeting with the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, yesterday.
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Giving very little context, the US president wrote on his Truth Social app: “None of these people, including our own, very disappointing, NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!!”
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After their private meeting yesterday, Rutte said Trump was “clearly disappointed” that the US’s allies had refused to join its war against Iran.
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Iran will allow no more than 15 vessels a day to pass through the strait of Hormuz under the ceasefire agreement it agreed with the United States, Russia’s state TASS news agency quoted an unnamed senior Iranian source as saying.
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The strait, a strip of water only 34 km (21 miles) wide between Iran and Oman, provides passage from the Gulf to the Indian Ocean and is the main route for about a fifth of world oil supplies and other vital goods including fertilisers.
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It has been largely shut by Iran since the start of the conflict at the end of February, leading to a surge in global oil prices.
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The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said Israel’s strikes on Lebanon are a “blatant violation” of the US-Iran ceasefire agreement and their continuation would “render negotiations meaningless”.
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A translation of his statement on X reads:
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Israel’s renewed incursion into Lebanon is a blatant violation of the initial ceasefire agreement. This is a dangerous sign of deception and lack of commitment to potential agreements. The continuation of these actions will render negotiations meaningless. Our fingers remain on the trigger. Iran will never abandon its Lebanese sisters and brothers.
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The US and Israel maintain that the two-week ceasefire does not extend to Lebanon, where the Israeli military has launched one of its heaviest barrages of airstrikes yesterday.
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Iran and Pakistan, which mediated the ceasefire, say Lebanon is included.
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As we reported earlier (see post at 10:30) Iran’s atomic energy chief, Mohammad Eslami, said the US will “not succeed in restricting Iran’s enrichment programme”.
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AFP news agency has reported further comments from Eslami, in which he says the US and Israel’s demands for Iran to cease uranium enrichment “will not come true”.
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“The claims and demands of our enemies to restrict Iran’s enrichment programme are merely wishes that will be buried,” he was quoted as saying by Iran’s ISNA news agency.
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Iran’s uranium enrichment capabilities remain a key point of contention in the negotiations between Tehran and Washington, with Donald Trump demanding a total halt and removal of buried nuclear “dust” – referring to Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium – in exchange for sanctions relief.
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The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed that IDF strikes in Lebanon killed the nephew and secretary of Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem.
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In a statement on X, he said Ali Yusuf Harshi was “one of the closest people” to the militant group’s leader.
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He added that the Israeli military will continue to strike Hezbollah “wherever necessary”, a day after deadly Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon.
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Netanyahu said yesterday that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire between the US and Iran, but Tehran and mediating countries have issued conflicting claims on whether the ceasefire applies to the country.
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Four Lebanese soldiers were killed in Israeli attacks yesterday, Lebanon’s army said in a statement.
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More than 200 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon yesterday, according to Lebanese authorities, with a further 1,100 wounded.
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Several world leaders and officials, including the UK foreign minister Yvette Cooper, have called for Lebanon to be included in the US-Iran ceasefire.
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The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia have held a phone call today, in what the AFP news agency reported is the first official contact between the countries since the start of the war.
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The Saudi ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement on X that the country’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, received a call from the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.
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The statement said: “During the call, they reviewed the latest developments and discussed ways to reduce tensions to restore security and stability in the region.”
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It does not say when the officials spoke, but the statement was issued a day after the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has claimed to have killed the nephew and secretary of Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem in yesterday’s strikes in Beirut.
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In a post on Telegram, the IDF said:
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Hezbollah has not immediately commented on the claim.
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The Iranian deputy foreign minister, Saeed Khatibzadeh, has accused Israel of a “surprise attack” on Lebanon, saying it constituted a “grave violation” of the ceasefire agreed between the US and Iran.
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“It was a sort of genocide, you know, by the regime of Israel in Lebanon, just immediately after the ceasefire was accepted,” he told the BBC’s Today programme.
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“It is a type of practice that the Israeli regime has always done: accepting ceasefire, then surprise attack, massacring.”
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He added that the US “must choose between war and ceasefire”, saying: “They cannot have both at the same time.”
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He continued: “If president Trump … is interested in peace for the whole Middle East, and since Iran is committed to that, we ask everybody in the Middle East to be abided by this agreement and this ceasefire that we reached with Americans, and we expect Americans do the same with its ally, the Israeli regime.”
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In case you’re just joining us, here’s the latest developments. It is now 9.30am in Tehran, 9am in Jerusalem and 2am in Washington DC.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it fired rockets at northern Israel in its first attack against Israel since the US reached a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran. Hezbollah said in a statement that its attack came in response to what it described as Israeli ceasefire violations.
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Israel’s strikes on Lebanon on Wednesday killed at least 254 people and wounded over 1,100 others, the country’s civil defence service said.
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The Israeli strikes raised questions about regional truce efforts, with Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, saying a ceasefire in Lebanon was an essential condition of Iran’s agreement with the US.
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Fears that the ceasefire could fall apart saw West Texas Intermediate oil jump around 3% Thursday, having plunged more than 16% the day before. The price of Brent was up more than 2% following a 13% drop.
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Iran announced alternative routes for ships travelling through the strait of Hormuz, citing the risk of sea mines in the main zone of the vital waterway. The statement shared instructions for an alternative entry and exit route through the strait.
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Donald Trump said US ships, aircraft and soldiers will remain around Iran and threatened that the US will start “shooting” again unless Tehran fully complies with the deal reached with Washington. “If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the “Shootin’ Starts,” bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before,” Trump wrote in a late night Truth Social post.
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UN secretary-general António Guterres condemned yesterday’s deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon, saying they pose “a grave risk to the ceasefire and the efforts toward a lasting and comprehensive peace in the region,” Guterres’s spokesperson said in a statement.
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The UK foreign minister, Yvette Cooper, has said Lebanon must be included in any ceasefire agreement. In other remarks now being reported by Reuters, Cooper added that shipping through the strait of Hormuz must be toll-free.
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Amid ceasefire talks, Tehran has proposed fees or tolls on vessels to safely pass through the strait. Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested the US and Iran could collect tolls in a joint venture, while the White House said the priority was reopening the strait without limitations.
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Only 11 vessels moved through the strait on Wednesday, roughly the same as in prior days, according to Windward, a maritime intelligence firm. Iran was requiring shippers to pay tolls of up to $1 a barrel for outbound oil, it said. The largest supertankers carry up to 3 million barrels of crude.
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Donald Trump has just posted to Truth Social.
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He says all US ships, aircraft, and military personnel would remain in place until Iran fully complied with “the real agreement”.
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If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the “Shootin’ Starts,” bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before. It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary – NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS and, the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE. In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK!”
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The UN secretary-general has warned that ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon poses “a grave risk” to the fragile US-Iran truce, his spokesperson said.
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“The ongoing military activity in Lebanon poses a grave risk to the ceasefire and the efforts toward a lasting and comprehensive peace in the region. The Secretary-General reiterates his call to all parties to immediately cease hostilities,” UN chief Antonio Guterres’s spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Israeli strikes on Wednesday killed an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera and health officials there, as well as two Lebanese journalists in that country, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Citing Al Jazeera, the Associated Press reported that Mohammed Wishah was targeted in a drone strike in west Gaza City. The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, claimed on X that Wishah was a member of Hamas, reposting a 2024 tweet that described him as a “prominent commander” in its military wing, among other positions.
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The Guardian has not been able to independently verify these claims.
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Oil prices have climbed and stocks fallen on fears over the nascent US-Iran ceasefire, after Israel launched a major bombardment of Lebanon. In past two hours, Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at northern Israel in response to “ceasefire violations”.
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Fears that the ceasefire could fall apart while crude remains stuck in Hormuz saw West Texas Intermediate oil jump around 3% Thursday, having plunged more than 16% the day before. Brent was up more than 2% following a 13% drop.
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Equities also gave up some of their gains. In early trading in Asia, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney, Singapore, Seoul and Taipei were all marginally down.
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Gold eased to $4,712 an ounce.
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Welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran.
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The fragile two-week truce between the US and Iran was hanging in the balance on Thursday, with Tehran threatening to resume hostilities as Israel launched a major bombardment of Lebanon, killing at least 254 people, according to Lebanon’s Civil Defence.
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As a result, the conditional opening of the strait of Hormuz is precariously placed. Iran is threatening to lock up the chokepoint if Israel keeps striking Lebanon. Just before 4am on Thursday, Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at northern Israel over “ceasefire violations”, reports said.
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Washington and Tehran have both claimed victory in agreeing the ceasefire, but fractures emerged quickly as Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon – including in central Beirut – since Hezbollah joined the war in early March.
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The UN rights chief, Volker Turk, called the scale of killing “horrific”, as Israeli bombarded Beirut without warning, triggering scenes of horror and panic. The Red Cross said it was “outraged by the devastating death and destruction” in densely populated areas across Lebanon.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned they would “fulfil our duty and deliver a response” if Israel did not cease its strikes there, while Hezbollah said it had a “right” to respond.
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Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the country remained prepared to confront Iran if necessary, as it still had “objectives to complete”, with the military saying it continued to pursue the goal of “disarming” Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, also vowed that US forces remained at the ready if the conflict flared up again.
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The belligerent rhetoric came ahead of high-stakes talks in Pakistan expected on Friday, where the reopening of the strait of Hormuz will be a main talking point.
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Here’s the main developments:
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Iran announced alternative routes for ships travelling through the strait of Hormuz, citing the risk of sea mines in the main zone of the vital waterway. The statement shared instructions for an alternative entry and exit route through the strait.
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The Trump administration on Wednesday stated Lebanon was not part of the ceasefire deal, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claiming “that has been relayed to all parties”.
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The US vice-president, JD Vance, also told reporters in Budapest that the US never promised to include Lebanon in the ceasefire, and that Iran may have been under that impression due to a “misunderstanding”. Israel announced on Wednesday it did not consider Lebanon covered by the Iran-US truce.
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Karoline Leavitt also dismissed “misreporting” that Trump is working from the original 10-point plan put forward by Tehran. She said the 10-point plan presented in public by Iran was “literally thrown in the garbage” by Trump – despite the fact Trump said on Truth Social that the US received a 10-point proposal from Iran that is believed to be a “workable basis on which to negotiate”. Leavitt claimed Iran actually put forward a “more reasonable and entirely different and condensed plan to the president”.
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French president Emmanuel Macron said he has urged his US and Iranian counterparts, Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian, to include Lebanon in the ceasefire reached with Iran. Australia’s foreign minister has urged the same.
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Donald Trump vented his frustration with Nato during a private meeting with its secretary-general, Mark Rutte, as relations in the alliance reached a crisis point. “He is clearly disappointed with many Nato allies, and I can see his point,” Rutte said on CNN, after spending more than two hours at the White House. “This was a very frank, very open discussion, but also a discussion between two good friends.”
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Sir Keir Starmer will continue his tour of the Middle East on Thursday after he met with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, as part of ongoing talks with allies to give shipping the “confidence” to pass through the strait of Hormuz.
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Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned Israel’s “ongoing aggression against Lebanon” on Thursday, ahead of expected US-Iran talks in Islamabad.
“The prime minister said that Pakistan was engaged in sincere efforts for regional peace and it was in this spirit that the peace talks between Iran and the US were being convened,” Sharif’s office said in a statement.
‘There’s no Hezbollah here’: the Lebanese reaction to Israeli strikes that killed hundreds
Omar Rakha heard the war planes but did not feel the explosions; it was only when he woke up face down on the street, bleeding, that he understood what had happened. The building next to his in the Barbour neighbourhood of central Beirut had been destroyed by two Israeli bombs – he then ran through the flaming wreckage to find his sister, screaming.
“I really didn’t think something like this would happen here. Nothing like this happened in the last war,” he said.
Rakha and other locals in the Lebanese capital have spoken to my colleague William Christou in Beirut, where they say the Israeli strikes have mainly killed civilians.
Shaden Fakih, a 24-year-old calisthenics trainer, said: “It’s getting ridiculous. There’s no Hezbollah here, the Israelis are just getting happy when they bomb people.”
You can read the full report here:
IDF orders people to flee homes in Beirut as it warns of further strikes
The Israeli military has again ordered people to flee their homes in the southern suburbs of Beirut, as it warned of more strikes that have already devastated the Lebanese capital.
“Urgent warning to residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut … The Israeli army is continuing its operations and striking Hezbollah military infrastructure throughout the southern suburbs,” said Avichay Adraee, an Arabic-language spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Israeli strikes yesterday killed more than 200 people and wounded 1,100 others, according to Lebanese authorities. The IDF said it targeted sites of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, but Associated Press reported that several strikes hit densely packed commercial and residential areas without warning during rush hour, leading to widespread civilian casualties.
Trump criticises Nato in confusing Truth Social post
Donald Trump has again levelled criticism at Nato, after meeting with the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, yesterday.
Giving very little context, the US president wrote on his Truth Social app: “None of these people, including our own, very disappointing, NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!!”
After their private meeting yesterday, Rutte said Trump was “clearly disappointed” that the US’s allies had refused to join its war against Iran.
Lebanese prime minister Nawaf Salam asked his Pakistani counterpart on Thursday to confirm Lebanon’s inclusion in the Iran war ceasefire, a day after Israeli strikes on the country killed more than 200 people.
In a statement, Salam’s office said he phoned Shehbaz Sharif, praising Islamabad’s efforts in securing the truce and asking him to “confirm that the ceasefire includes Lebanon to prevent a recurrence of the Israeli attacks witnessed yesterday”.
Iran to let no more than 15 vessels a day to pass strait of Hormuz
Iran will allow no more than 15 vessels a day to pass through the strait of Hormuz under the ceasefire agreement it agreed with the United States, Russia’s state TASS news agency quoted an unnamed senior Iranian source as saying.
The strait, a strip of water only 34 km (21 miles) wide between Iran and Oman, provides passage from the Gulf to the Indian Ocean and is the main route for about a fifth of world oil supplies and other vital goods including fertilisers.
It has been largely shut by Iran since the start of the conflict at the end of February, leading to a surge in global oil prices.
The speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, says Lebanon forms “an inseparable part of the ceasefire” deal.
In a post on X, he said “there is no room for denial and backtracking”. His comments come after US president Donald Trump described Israel’s war with Lebanon as a “separate skirmish”.
Ghalibaf added:
Ceasefire violations carry explicit costs and STRONG responses.
Extinguish the fire immediately.
Israeli strikes on Lebanon ‘blatant violation’ of ceasefire, says Iranian president
The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said Israel’s strikes on Lebanon are a “blatant violation” of the US-Iran ceasefire agreement and their continuation would “render negotiations meaningless”.
A translation of his statement on X reads:
Israel’s renewed incursion into Lebanon is a blatant violation of the initial ceasefire agreement. This is a dangerous sign of deception and lack of commitment to potential agreements. The continuation of these actions will render negotiations meaningless. Our fingers remain on the trigger. Iran will never abandon its Lebanese sisters and brothers.
The US and Israel maintain that the two-week ceasefire does not extend to Lebanon, where the Israeli military has launched one of its heaviest barrages of airstrikes yesterday.
Iran and Pakistan, which mediated the ceasefire, say Lebanon is included.
Iran nuclear chief on restrictions to uranium enrichment: ‘US and Israel demands will not come true’
As we reported earlier (see post at 10:30) Iran’s atomic energy chief, Mohammad Eslami, said the US will “not succeed in restricting Iran’s enrichment programme”.
AFP news agency has reported further comments from Eslami, in which he says the US and Israel’s demands for Iran to cease uranium enrichment “will not come true”.
“The claims and demands of our enemies to restrict Iran’s enrichment programme are merely wishes that will be buried,” he was quoted as saying by Iran’s ISNA news agency.
Iran’s uranium enrichment capabilities remain a key point of contention in the negotiations between Tehran and Washington, with Donald Trump demanding a total halt and removal of buried nuclear “dust” – referring to Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium – in exchange for sanctions relief.
The UAE defence ministry said its skies had been free of any aerial threats today.
In a post on X, the ministry said: “UAE air defence systems did not detect any ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle) launched from Iran.”
Lisa O’Carroll
Four Iranian, four Greek and one Chinese ships are among the 11 vessels that have been allowed transit through the strait of Hormuz in the 24 hours since the ceasefire.
Their passage barely dents the blockage on both sides of the narrow passage where about 1,400 ships remain anchored.
According to data verified by AXSMarine, two eastbound ships – the Oman-owned Lucia and Greek-owned Iolcas Destiny – were given passage from the Gulf in the early hours of Thursday morning despite the Iranian declaration that the strait was closed amid concerns over the fragility of the ceasefire.
A further ship which crossed from west to east on Wednesday did not identify itself and could be part of a shadow fleet.
AXS said there was a high degree of “spoofing” and signal disruption particularly among vessels anchored in the Gulf, with many reporting false positions.
While the strait has been effectively closed since the outbreak of war, Iran has made concessions to allies including China, Russia, India, Iraq and Pakistan, with some Malaysian and Thai vessels granted access after diplomatic talks in the last six weeks.
On 2 April, Iran said it would allow Philippine-flagged vessels to cross following further negotiations.
Netanyahu after death of personal adviser to Hezbollah leader: ‘We will continue to strike them wherever necessary’
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed that IDF strikes in Lebanon killed the nephew and secretary of Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem.
In a statement on X, he said Ali Yusuf Harshi was “one of the closest people” to the militant group’s leader.
He added that the Israeli military will continue to strike Hezbollah “wherever necessary”, a day after deadly Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon.
Netanyahu said yesterday that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire between the US and Iran, but Tehran and mediating countries have issued conflicting claims on whether the ceasefire applies to the country.
