Donald Trump said he would plead with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iranian strikes on Israel - which came in response to Israeli strikes on Beirut on Sunday.‘I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate,’ Trump was quoted as saying by Axios journalist Barak Ravid in a phone interview, using the Israeli leader’s nickname.‘Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike and Iran had its strike. We don’t need another one,’ Mr Trump said.Trump described the attack - the first Iranian strikes on Israeli soil since April - as 'unhelpful' to the peace process and called for calm between the two nations. 'We're very close,' the President told Fox News about his progress on a landmark peace deal.'I would say an agreement would be signed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of this coming week. And now this takes place.'Addressing Iran, he said: 'You've shot your missiles, that's enough. Get back to the table and make a deal.' He told The Financial Times that Netanyahu did not have a choice about whether to accept the terms of the US deal with Iran. An Israeli air-defence missile steaks across the night sky as seen from Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank US President Donald Trump speaks with the press aboard Air Force One as he flies from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Eau Claire, Wisconsin on June 5, 2026 Israeli security forces examine a fragment of an intercepted Iranian missile in northern Israel in the early hours of Monday, June 8, 2026 Pro-government Iranian demonstrators wave Iranian and Hazbollah flags in Tehran on Sunday, June 7, 2026'He won’t have any choice,' Trump told the FT. 'I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots.'He also told The New York Post that 'things are going very well' despite the chaos. The attack comes a few days after the Lebanese and Israeli governments agreed to a ceasefire in US-hosted talks.Tehran had warned of retaliation after Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs today in defiance of Washington's request days ago to stand down.The strike on a residential building killed two people and wounded 20, Lebanon's health ministry said.Israel has now said it will retaliate against Iran over this evening's attack - though Iran has vowed to respond with greater force.Ahead of the regime's strikes, senior member of Iran's parliament, Ebrahim Rezaei, said on X: 'Watch the sky of the occupied territories tonight.'Iran's parliament speaker said earlier today: 'The (US) naval blockade imposed against the Iranian people, together with Washington's green light today to the Zionist regime, makes U.S and Israeli bases and assets in the region legitimate targets.'Brig Gen Effie Defrin, spokesman for the IDF, said Israel is 'prepared for the possibility of additional fire'.He added that air defence systems are 'deployed across the entire country' and the military's chief of general staff is holding a 'situational assessment'.'The IDF will continue to operate throughout Lebanon and will deepen the blow to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation,' he said. Effie Defrin had previously said the Iranian regime had made a 'grave mistake'. A streak of light illuminates the sky during a missile attack from Iran towards Israel today, as seen from Ashkelon A projectile crosses the night sky over the West Bank city of Nablus today. Israel's military reported air defence sirens sounded across northern Israel and central areas Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre today An Israeli air-defence missile flies in the sky over Israel, as seen from Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank today Missiles launched from Iran today towards Israel are seen in the sky over the West Bank city of Hebron Sirens sounded in several regions across northern Israel due to the missile attack, which followed an Israeli strike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut President Donald Trump told Fox News he was 'not happy' about the Israeli attack on Lebanon todayNetanyahu's office had claimed the IDF strike on Beirut was in retaliation for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group firing at northern Israel earlier today, and that Israel targeted 'command centres'.A senior U.S. official said the it was 'not surprised' by the attack in Beirut. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would not say if the U.S. had been given a heads-up on the strike.Though, Mr Trump told Fox News he was 'not happy' about the Israeli attack.Netanyahu - who wants to remove Hezbollah as a threat - told his cabinet: 'We are striking them very hard, and we know that Hezbollah is on the run.'Israel's military said 'steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians' including aerial surveillance.Hezbollah did not immediately claim responsibility for firing at Israel earlier in the day.Israel announced on Monday last week it would strike the southern suburbs after Hezbollah claimed attacks in northern Israel, but urgent talks via Washington halted the attacks on the condition that Hezbollah stop targeting Israeli border towns. Lebanon and Israel later renewed a ceasefire agreement in talks that Beirut hopes will end the fighting.An initial agreement took effect on April 17, days after a 10-minute Israeli bombardment of Beirut killed more than 300 people. Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs twice following the deal. Israeli strikes over southern Lebanon continue daily, and Israeli forces have seized around a fifth of Lebanon in a ground invasion.Netanyahu, who faces elections later this year, has expressed a desire to press ahead with Israel's offensive until he believes Hezbollah no longer poses a threat.Hezbollah has scathingly rejected a U.S. brokered deal and urged Lebanon to end its direct talks with Israel. Instead, it backs Iran's inclusion of a ceasefire in Lebanon as a condition in negotiations with the U.S.The fighting threatens efforts to end the Iran war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit point for oil and gas and related products like fertiliser. Its closure has jolted the world economy and spiked warnings of hunger in vulnerable regions.In an interview taped on Friday and aired today with NBC's Meet the Press, Mr Trump said: 'I'd like to see Lebanon have a better life. I'd like to see a more surgical attack on Hezbollah. I think it should be more surgical.'Mr Trump added he is 'not demanding' that Lebanon be part of the short-term deal to extend the ceasefire in the Iran war.More than 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon since the war began on March 2 when Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel, two days after Israel and the U.S. began attacking Iran.More than one million people in Lebanon have been displaced. The fighting has killed at least 31 Israeli soldiers and three civilians.Lebanon's army commander, Gen. Rodolphe Haykal, went to Pakistan on Saturday at the invitation of Pakistan's army chief, who has been involved in mediating talks between the U.S. and Iran. The Lebanese army did not say whether the visit is related to mediation efforts.