President Donald Trump, on Tuesday morning, urged Israel to call off any retaliatory strikes after Iran violated the U.S.-brokered ceasefire by firing multiple ballistic missiles at Israel.
“Israel. Do not drop those bombs. If you do it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!” President Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The CNBC News reported the President’s remarks:
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that a ceasefire was in effect, soon after Iranian state-linked media announced Tehran had fired its “last round” of missiles at Israel.“THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social around 1:00 a.m. stateside. (…)Within hours of the declaration, Israel accused Iran of violating the ceasefire with further missile strikes — which Tehran has refuted, according to Iranian media.Trump said he is “not happy” with both Tehran and Israel, urging the Jewish state not to go ahead with a retaliatory missile strike against Iran.
Following President Trump’s remarks, Jerusalem appears to have scaled down its planned military response to the Iranian ceasefire violation. “Israel limited the scope of its attack on Iran on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said after he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” the Israeli news website Ynetnews reported. “Israel was set to launch a bombing raid after a missile was launched from Iran, a couple of hours after a ceasefire came into effect.”
Shortly after the President Trump-backed ceasefire came into effect on Tuesday morning, Iran fired at least two ballistic missiles at Israel. “One hour after Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed the ceasefire with Iran, the regime launched multiple ballistic missiles into Israel, breaking the agreement,” the Tel Aviv-based ILTV reported.
Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, had vowed to respond with retaliatory strikes “against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.”
Slamming “Iran’s blatant violation of the ceasefire declared by the President of the United States—by launching missiles toward Israel, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he had “instructed the IDF, in coordination with the Prime Minister, to continue the intense operations targeting regime assets and terror infrastructure in Tehran.”
Two Iranian missiles, which were fired in breach of the ceasefire, were intercepted by Israeli air defense systems. No injuries were reported. The IDF had planned to retaliate forcefully to Tehran’s aggression in keeping with its new military doctrine, the Israeli defense minister indicated.
“Though there were no reports of injuries in Israel, Katz said that the new policy is to respond with strength to even a small violation of the ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump overnight between Monday and Tuesday,” the Jerusalem Post observed.
Iran also fired a barrage of missiles ahead of the ceasefire, with one breaching the Israeli air defenses, killing four and wounding several others in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. “A preliminary investigation by Israel’s Home Front Command reports that the four people killed in Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Be’er Sheva were sheltering in their safe rooms when the projectile hit,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported. “The missile directly hit two bomb safe rooms, completely destroying one of them, and killing four people inside them, according to the probe.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies are selling the ceasefire as a great victory.
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