Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026. RONEN ZVULUN / AP
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly expressed support for the announcement of a ceasefire between Iran, the United States and Israel on the night of Tuesday, April 7. "Israel supports President Trump's decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks," his office laconically said in a statement posted on X the morning of Wednesday, April 8. The day before, in a video address, he had praised himself for "crushing the terrorist regime in Iran with increasing intensity."
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Netanyahu was especially careful to emphasize that this truce did not apply to Lebanon, contradicting conflict mediator and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who said the ceasefire was to apply "everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere." According to the Iranian National Security Council, the 10-point ceasefire plan proposed by Iran as a basis for negotiations with the US includes "ending the war against all components of the axis of resistance," of which Hezbollah is a member.
