Trump warns ‘all hell will rain down’ if Iran tries to get a nuclear weapon
Key takeaways
- Trump said on Tuesday that he had a “great relationship” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but added the Israeli leader “has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon”.
- “You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody because there’s a lot of people in those apartment houses – and they’re not all Hezbollah,” he said.
- “I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because to be honest with you, I think they’d do a better job of doing it.”
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At a G7 meeting in France, the US president has also made unusually critical comments about Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo US President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 16, 2026 [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 16 Jun 202616 Jun 2026United States President Donald Trump has rebuked Israel over its military offensive in Lebanon in unusually critical comments during his visit to a G7 summit in France.
Trump said on Tuesday that he had a “great relationship” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but added the Israeli leader “has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon”.