Lebanon, home to millennia of human history, is being flattened as it is being used as a bargaining chip in the US-Iran standoff. President Donald Trump this week halted an Israeli onslaught on the capital, Beirut, claiming that he had managed to reinstate a ceasefire agreement between the pro-Iran Hezbollah and Tel Aviv, under which the militant group would suspend its drone attacks on Israel’s north in exchange for an Israeli commitment not to bomb the Lebanese capital.

Trumps says Israel and Hezbollah will stop fighting after Iran stops talks with U.S. over Israeli operations in southern Lebanon, Gaza

Iranian negotiators said Monday Israeli attacks in Lebanon violated the ongoing ceasefire.