Trump publicly said Netanyahu agreed to stop bombing Beirut. Netanyahu immediately ordered strikes on Beirut. Iran responded with 30 ballistic missiles. Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel. The 'ceasefire' never existed, and Lebanon's prime minister confirmed 3,500 airstrikes since it was supposedly agreed to.
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Tommy delivers a brisk, alarming timeline of the week's events in the Middle East. Israel and Lebanon declared a ceasefire on Wednesday; by Thursday, Hezbollah — one of the two parties doing the shooting — announced it was not on board. The IDF then struck roughly 150 Hezbollah sites, prompting rocket fire into northern Israel, which led to strikes into southern Beirut — directly contradicting Trump's public assurances that Netanyahu had agreed to stop hitting Beirut. Iran then fired approximately 30 ballistic missiles directly at Israel, and the Houthis launched a missile and threatened Red Sea shipping. For a brief window, full-scale war seemed imminent. Trump intervened and called Netanyahu, but the Israeli response, while restrained by targeting a petrochemical plant and some infrastructure, showed the cycle was far from over. Ben Rhodes frames the structural problem with characteristic clarity: Netanyahu wants to destroy Hezbollah, not make peace; Trump wants to claim victory without actually achieving his objectives; and Iran wants to establish deterrence and humiliate the US-Israel alliance without triggering a full war. None of them want the deal that would end this [1] — Tommy Vietor "Trump publicly said Netanyahu agreed to stop bombing Beirut. Netanyahu immediately ordered strikes on Beirut. Iran responded with 30 ballis…" 08:30 .
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