Benjamin Netanyahu said he supports the U.S. decision to suspend attacks against Iran for two weeks, but drew a line around Lebanon, saying the ceasefire does not include fighting against Hezbollah forces there. The remarks came after President Donald Trump cast the provisional truce as a “total and complete victory” and said the issue of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile would be “perfectly taken care of.”
Netanyahu’s distinction matters because the war in Lebanon has already killed more than 1,400 people, including 126 children, and displaced more than 1 million since the fighting began. That toll has made any language about a wider ceasefire especially sensitive for families still waiting to return home, and for anyone trying to understand whether the pause with Iran changes the battlefield beyond that front.
The timing also adds weight. On Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it would suspend its operations in Iraq and across the region for two weeks after the provisional suspension of hostilities between the United States and Iran, while the U.N. secretary general welcomed the ceasefire and urged compliance with international law. Together, those reactions showed how quickly the truce reverberated beyond Tehran and Washington, even as the fighting in Lebanon remained untouched by Netanyahu’s reading of the deal.
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That gap is the core tension now: a ceasefire announced on one front does not yet mean the fighting that has devastated Lebanon is over, and Netanyahu made clear he does not see it that way. Trump, for his part, told Agence France-Presse after the announcement that the uranium issue would be “perfectly taken care of,” saying, “One hundred percent. No question about it,” and adding that it would be settled “or I wouldn’t have settled.”
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For Lebanon, that leaves the ceasefire as a signal of possible regional de-escalation, not relief. The next question is whether the U.S.-Iran pause holds long enough to create pressure for a broader halt, or whether the war on Lebanon continues on its own track while diplomats claim progress elsewhere.