Report: Israel Accepts U.S.-Backed Ceasefire with Hezbollah Despite Recent Attacks
Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Israel will not tolerate attacks on our soldiers or our territory, and it will exact a very heavy price from Hezbollah for these attacks.”
Despite a deadly overnight terror attack on Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, Jerusalem has agreed to an apparent U.S.-brokered ceasefire with the Iranian proxy terrorist group Hezbollah, according to a US official.
The news of the truce comes after Vice President JD Vance postponed a trip to the U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland amid reports that Iranians were stalling on the deal. The Mullah regime sought protection for Lebanon’s Hezbollah as part of a U.S.-Iran agreement, media reports indicated.
🔴 Israel and Hezbollah agree to a ceasefire deal starting at 4pm, Friday – report
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) June 19, 2026
The Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reports:
“Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire,” a US official said to Reuters, adding that negotiators for the US and Qataris worked out the deal with help from Iran. “We understand that after the exchange of fire earlier today, Israel and Hezbollah are now in a ceasefire.”
Israeli source to i24NEWS: “We have entered into a ceasefire. We continue to act against threats, we remain in the security zone, if Hezbollah harms our soldiers and civilians, we will respond forcefully”
Despite Iranian demands, Israel will not withdraw from the security buffer zone set up in southern Lebanon. The IDF will “remain within south Lebanon’s security zone,” the broadcaster added.
The buffer zone has been created to protect the residents of towns and cities in northern Israel. Over 80,000 people were forced to flee their homes when Hezbollah began launching drones and rockets from these positions on October 8, 2023.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet commented on the ceasefire. Earlier today, he ordered the military to conduct retaliatory strikes against the terrorist group.
“Following the heinous attack by Hezbollah, which is a flagrant violation of the ceasefire, I instructed the IDF last night to strike Hezbollah with force. The IDF struck over 80 terror targets and eliminated dozens of terrorists,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a statement on his website. “Subsequently, the IDF struck Hezbollah command posts in the Beqaa Valley this morning.”
He warned that “Israel will not tolerate attacks on our soldiers or our territory, and it will exact a very heavy price from Hezbollah for these attacks.”
כפי שהנחיתי – צה״ל תקף בעוצמה 150 מטרות של חיזבאללה בלבנון וחיסל עשרות מחבלים. pic.twitter.com/oCbBzuP61K
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) June 19, 2026
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted overnight strikes against terrorist targets in Lebanon after four Israeli soldiers were killed in an apparent Hezbollah drone strike.
The IDF, in a press release, confirmed that it “struck more than 80 command centers, terrorists, launch positions, and additional terrorist infrastructure sites in the area of Nabatieh and additional areas in southern Lebanon, within the Security Zone and beyond it.”
“Furthermore, during the strikes, dozens of Hezbollah terrorists operating in the command centers were eliminated,” the IDF added.
While Hezbollah are committed to violating the ceasefire and creating instability, we are committed to protecting our civilians and operating against terror. pic.twitter.com/B6KLQRF93G
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 19, 2026
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Well they have little choice in the matter frankly. They can’t annoy their patron too much, at least for the present; 5 years from now, who knows.
They will still retaliate after Hezbollah does what they do. Why should only one side follow the rules?
As I pointed out in an earlier comment, Israel can not depend on the UN, the Lebanese government or Donald J Trump to stand by their agreements or memorandum. All I needed was to read the next article with Hezbollah already in violation. Trump, so far has done nothing about Hamas violating his agreement by not disarming! Hamas has said it will not disarm so that agreement is no longer valid. Why would any country place faith in a Trump agreement if he ignores violations. Why would any nation rely on the USA after the USA had cut and run on the people of South Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Iran. We encouraged the people to resist and overthrow the Islamist regime. We promised support and then abandoned the people, allowing 40,000 unarmed people to be slaughtered. Trump’s MOU with Iran is not worth the paper it is written on. Why are we giving Iran $300 billion to “rebuild” when we did’t do that much damage? We are sourcing that money even if it comes through third parties. Why isn’t Iran paying damages to the families of Americans it’s terrorists have killed or maimed? Iran has been at war with the USA for 50 years, even if our politicians would not admit it. Iranian oil profits were more important to the politicians than American lives. Where is the moral backbone of our politicians? One party wants to give our country away and the other party is ready to sell it.
Iran’s brazen and obnoxious demand that Lebanese/Hezb’allah protection should be included in its worthless “deal” should have been explicitly deemed a non-starter and rejected, by Vance and U.S. negotiators. Lebanon isn’t Iranian territory; why the hell should Iran control it, or attempt to control it, through Hezb’allah?
And I’ll just put this here for all to see. The MOU didn’t even last the weekend and now Iran has reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz once again due to Israel’s actions in Lebanon. Who could have foreseen this? Just about everyone that that wasn’t such a Trump brown-nosing sycophant, that’s all. But here we are and there we go.
Eagerly awaiting VP Vance’s press conference spinning how this isn’t a setback but a move forward. Or some such nonsense. Certainly won’t be hearing a thing from Pres. Trump that’s for sure.
US-Iran talks to begin Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran closes the strait over Lebanon fighting
Yeah; seriously — who could have possibly seen this coming?
Iran’s latest demonstration of its brazen and gleeful perfidy, deceit, mendacity and belligerence only come as a total shocker to naive fools who are: 1) ignorant of 1,400 years of Islamic behavior in dealing with non-Muslim “infidels;” 2) ignorant of the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya; and, 3) ignorant of nearly fifty years of the Iranian Islamofascist/terrorist regime’s incessant fanaticism, belligerence, mendacity and deceit, demonstrated since its wretched inception, in 1979.
It’s clear, now, that Iran’s tactical goal is to increase international hatred of and vilification of Israel, by blaming the pre-ordained, sabotaged failure of this wretched and farcical “deal” to Israel’s righteous and justified actions in Lebanon, to defend its territory and its people against Hezb’allah’s incessant terrorist attacks.
You can believe Iran. Americans don’t.
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/06/20/new-centcom-traffic-continues-to-flow-through-strait-after-iranian-claim-it-was-closed-n2203550