Israel and Iran announced this Monday (8) the end of hostilities between the two countriesafter having attacked each other directly for the first time since the beginning of a fragile ceasefire in the war in the Middle East. After weeks of negotiations to try to end the conflict, the The region caught fire again as a result of Israeli bombing against the suburbs of Beirut on Sunday, to which Iran responded with a volley of missiles.
O Israeli army launched attacks on several Iranian cities, including Tehran, and targeted defense systems and a petrochemical complex.
This Monday, the command of the Iranian Armed Forces claimed to have “inflicted a blunt response” to Israel and announced “the closure of the operation”. However, he warned that, “if acts of aggression and hostility continue, including in southern Lebanon, much more severe and forceful measures will be adopted than previous ones.”
In Tyre, city in southern Lebanon, five people were killed and eight were injured in an Israeli attack, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. “After the blows we dealt against the terrorist regime in Tehran, it stopped attacking us,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If Iran “makes the mistake of resuming its attacks,” Israel will respond “with full force.”
O United States President Donald Trump, who has shown himself increasingly impatient with Netanyahu, had previously demanded from Iran, but also from its ally Israel, that they “immediately” stop the attacks, the first since April 8, when the truce came into force.
