Ceasefire moment, Lebanon attacked

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According to a report by Xinhua News Agency, on the 8th, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that Israel supports U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to call for a two-week ceasefire with Iran, but the ceasefire does not include Lebanon.

The statement said that the condition for the ceasefire with Iran is that Iran immediately opens the Strait of Hormuz and stops all attacks on the United States, Israel, and other countries in the region. Israel supports the U.S. in its efforts to ensure that Iran no longer poses a “nuclear threat, missile threat, and terrorism threat.”

According to Xinhua News Agency, citing a report from Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya TV on the 8th, an ambulance was attacked in the southern Lebanese town of Kleyleir, killing 4 people.

Also, Qatar’s Al Jazeera reported that Israeli forces attacked the southern Lebanese town of Balarshit.

Both attacks occurred at a time when the United States and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire.

On the 8th, local time, Israeli forces carried out airstrikes in a town in southern Lebanon. Photo source: Visual China

On the evening of the 7th, U.S. Eastern Time, Trump posted on social media saying that he agreed to pause the bombing and attacks on Iran for two weeks, provided that Iran agrees to “fully, immediately, and safely” open the Strait of Hormuz. Subsequently, the Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretariat released a statement saying that Iran will hold two weeks of political talks with the United States in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.