Israeli emergency companies and safety officers seek for casualties within the rubble of a constructing hit by an Iranian missile in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 24, 2025.
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Israel and Iran stated they agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday, following President Trump’s announcement that the warring international locations had agreed to cease combating.
However the way forward for such a ceasefire got here below speedy query, as reviews persevered Tuesday morning of additional airstrikes in Israel. Quickly after these reviews, Israeli Protection Minister Israel Katz introduced he had ordered the Israeli army to “reply forcefully” to what he labeled Iranian airstrikes. Iran denied firing a missile in violation of the ceasefire, based on Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB.
Iran’s state media reported its settlement to the ceasefire earlier Tuesday, and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Workplace has adopted with a press release that it additionally agreed.
The tenuous ceasefire comes greater than every week and a half after Israel launched its assault on Iran, resulting in lethal exchanges of missile and drone barrages between them and threatening to attract the Center East — and the USA — into wider warfare. It comes just a few days after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear amenities.
“In mild of the operation’s aims being achieved, and in full coordination with President Trump, Israel has agreed to the president’s proposal for a bilateral ceasefire,” the Prime Minister’s Workplace stated in a press release.
Earlier than the Israeli assertion, Trump wrote on social media in all caps: “The ceasefire is now in impact. Please don’t violate it!”
Earlier within the morning, Iran’s state TV stated Tehran had “imposed” a ceasefire on the “Zionist enemy.” Iran’s authorities doesn’t formally acknowledge Israel as a state.
Israel and Iran exchanged assaults as much as the ultimate moments when the ceasefire was attributable to start, inflicting casualties, based on Iranian state media and Israeli emergency companies.
The ultimate loss of life toll from the warfare is just not instantly clear. Over the weekend, Iran’s Well being Ministry stated 430 civilians had been killed by Israel’s strikes in Iran. An unbiased activist group referred to as the Human Rights Activists Information Company counted 974 whole fatalities, because it additionally included 268 Iranian army personnel.
Israel’s earlier loss of life toll was 24, based on the Israeli authorities, however current barrages have induced new fatalities.
On Monday, Trump first stated Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire that would result in an finish to the warfare between the 2 international locations.
Quickly afterward, Vice President Vance, talking on Fox Information, stated Trump needed to work on a “long-term settlement” between Iran and Israel.
“I believe the Iranians are at a spot the place they do not wish to carry on combating,” Vance stated within the interview.
Earlier Monday, Iran’s state-run information company Tasnim stated that Tehran launched missile assaults on U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq. The U.S. Central Command stated the U.S. and Qatari forces efficiently intercepted the Iranian missiles concentrating on the air base.
Trump stated on social media that U.S. officers had been given advance discover by Iran of the strikes.
NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi contributed to this report from Tel Aviv, Israel.
