Lebanon says Hezbollah accepts US plan to halt attacks on Israel

Lebanon says Hezbollah has accepted a US plan for it to halt attacks on Israel and for Israel not to attack the Lebanese capital Beirut.

The Lebanese embassy in the US said it had received confirmation of Hezbollah's acceptance of the US proposal for a mutual cessation of attacks.

The statements came after US President Donald Trump said he had spoken to both Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives and they agreed that all shooting will stop. The comments followed warnings from Iran that Israeli military actions in Lebanon were a threat to the current US-Iran ceasefire.

In a statement late on Monday, the Lebanese embassy said that under the proposed arrangement, Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs would cease in exchange for Hezbollah refraining from attacks against Israel. It added that the ceasefire was to be extended to encompass all Lebanese territory.

Hezbollah said it had launched three attacks at Israeli tanks and soldiers near two villages in northern Israel, using drones and a barrage of artillery shells.

The Israeli military said it had intercepted two projectiles that had been fired from Lebanon. No injuries have been reported.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US-Iran truce was unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and that its violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. An Iranian news agency affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Iran and its allies could activate other fronts, including the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the entrance of the Red Sea.

In later posts on Truth Social, Trump said he had spoken to both Netanyahu and representatives from Hezbollah. He wrote that there will be no troops going to Beirut and that any troops on their way have already been turned back. He added that Hezbollah agreed that all shooting will stop, that Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.

The US has tried to separate events in Lebanon from the negotiations with Iran, which has long provided Hezbollah with significant ideological, military and financial backing and insists that any agreement must include peace in Lebanon.

On Sunday, a US official said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had proposed a plan for gradual de-escalation there to Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.

The Israeli military has struck Beirut twice since the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into force on 16 April, most recently on Thursday. That is a reduction on what went before, with reports that the White House has been pressuring Israel to limit its military action in Beirut as part of efforts to reach a broader deal to end the war with Iran.

A truce between the US and Iran came into force on 8 April but it has failed to end the fighting. Tensions between Iran and the US escalated in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend. The US has said it hit Iranian military sites over the weekend while Tehran said it responded by targeting a US base in Kuwait.