Israel and Hezbollah keep firing despite Trump's announcement of an end to hostilities
Key takeaways
- A day after US President Donald Trump announced an agreement to end the military clashes in Lebanon, the fighting continued on Tuesday with little change from previous days.
- The Israeli military also issued its first evacuation order since Trump's announcement, directed at residents still in Nabatiye, a southern Lebanese city that had 40,000 inhabitants before the war that began in 2024.
- Hezbollah, meanwhile, fired projectiles not only at troops inside Lebanon —where it killed three soldiers over the past two days— but also at Israeli border towns.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
A day after US President Donald Trump announced an agreement to end the military clashes in Lebanon, the fighting continued on Tuesday with little change from previous days. Israel is limiting itself to not striking Beirut, but its bombings killed 12 people in various parts of the country. Hezbollah, for its part, kept firing, though it stopped aiming at the Israeli towns farthest from the border that it had recently been targeting.
The Israeli military also issued its first evacuation order since Trump's announcement, directed at residents still in Nabatiye, a southern Lebanese city that had 40,000 inhabitants before the war that began in 2024. As in other towns, they are being forced to move north of the Zahrani River, about 40 kilometers from the border.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, fired projectiles not only at troops inside Lebanon —where it killed three soldiers over the past two days— but also at Israeli border towns. Benjamin Netanyahu's government has conditioned its restraint over Dahiye, the Shiite-majority suburbs of Beirut, on Hezbollah not attacking those municipalities. If there is no calm here, there will be no calm there, warned Defense Minister Israel Katz, who stressed that at this moment there is no ceasefire inside Lebanon and that the army continues to operate against the militia. Katz said the United States was aware of that policy and agreed with it.