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United States President Donald Trump said he asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pull his troops back from Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, and also spoke with Hezbollah representatives, who “agreed to stop shooting” at Israeli forces.
The office of Israel’s prime minister said later that Netanyahu had told Trump that attacks on Beirut would take place if Hezbollah continues to fire “at our cities and citizens”, while Israeli forces will “operate as planned in southern Lebanon”.
