The U.S.-brokered deal depends on Hezbollah halting its attacks first. But the leader of the Iran-backed group rejected those terms, and Israel said that its offensive would continue.

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Lebanon on Friday launched a new, urgent humanitarian appeal, its second since the latest escalation in the Israel-Hezbollah war began in March.

Israel’s air force struck different parts of southern Lebanon on Friday as the military issued evacuation warnings for nine villages, including one that has been spared much of the destruction and was sheltering thousands of people displaced by the three-month war.

The temporary resumption of hostilities highlighted Mr Trump’s twin failures in controlling his Israeli ally and cajoling Iran to accept a lasting truce. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has now defied the president twice in rapid succession.

A climbdown in a phone call with the Israeli leader shows the president’s diminishing control over fighting that threatens his effort to reach a peace deal with Tehran.

Overnight exchanges ⁠of ⁠fire between Iran ⁠and Israel will only worsen an already "chaotic ​diplomatic process" with the United States, Iranian Foreign Ministry ‌spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said ‌on Monday,

Israel launched airstrikes early Monday targeting central and western Iran in response to missile fire from Tehran, attacks that threatened to drag the wider Middle East back into a regional war. Iranian state television reported the sound of explosions being heard in Isfahan,