Overview
- Trump, in an interview published Wednesday, said Israel should avoid knocking down buildings and stick to precise strikes in Lebanon.
- The U.S.-brokered ceasefire is only partly holding and could fail before its mid-May end date, according to officials in Israel and Lebanon.
- Fighting continues despite the truce, with Israeli forces staying in southern Lebanon and demolishing sites they say Hezbollah used.
- Hezbollah has kept up rocket and drone attacks into Israel, and Israel has expanded airstrikes in response.
- A U.S. official said the truce still stands, urged Israeli restraint, and vowed a faster political campaign against Hezbollah alongside new support for the Lebanese Armed Forces, as Beirut’s leaders trade accusations that complicate talks.