By SAM MEDNICK, JON GAMBRELL and MELANIE LIDMAN
BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — Israel and Iran on Tuesday accepted a ceasefire plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to finish their 12-day conflict that roiled the Center East, after Tehran launched a retaliatory restricted missile assault on a U.S. navy base in Qatar.
The acceptance of the deal by each side got here after Tehran launched a remaining onslaught of missiles focusing on Israel that killed at the very least 4 individuals early Tuesday morning, whereas Israel launched a blitz of airstrikes focusing on websites throughout Iran earlier than daybreak.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Israel had agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with Iran in coordination with Trump.
Netanyahu stated that he had reported to Israel’s safety cupboard Monday night time that Israel had achieved all of its conflict targets within the 12-day operation in opposition to Iran, together with eradicating the specter of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile packages. Israel additionally broken Iran’s navy management and several other authorities websites and achieved management over Tehran’s skies, Netanyahu stated.
“Israel will reply forcefully to any violation of the ceasefire,” Netanyahu stated.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows beneath.
BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump introduced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “full and whole ceasefire” quickly after Iran launched a retaliatory restricted missile assault on a U.S. navy base in Qatar. However the standing of a attainable ceasefire remained tentative on Tuesday as an Iranian missile barrage struck Israel after a primary deadline for the proposal.
The Iranian barrages despatched Israelis hurrying into bomb shelters because the solar rose, killing at the very least 4 individuals and injuring eight others, Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue providers stated. Israel has but to acknowledge Trump’s proposal, which supplies Israel extra time to doubtlessly strike again although Iran on its state tv introduced an total ceasefire had begun at 7:30 a.m. native time.
The barrage broken at the very least three densely packed residential buildings within the metropolis of Beersheba, police stated.
First responders stated they retrieved 4 our bodies from one constructing and had been looking for extra. Exterior, the shells of burned out vehicles littered the streets. Damaged glass and rubble lined the realm. Tons of of emergency employees gathered to seek for anybody else trapped within the buildings.
Police stated some individuals had been injured even whereas inside their flats’ strengthened protected rooms, which are supposed to stand up to rockets and shrapnel however not direct hits from ballistic missiles.
The direct hit within the largest metropolis in southern Israel got here earlier than Trump stated the ceasefire had gone into impact.
Writing over an hour after deadline for the primary part, which referred to as for Iran to halt its assaults, he wrote on Fact Social: “THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!”
Trump says ceasefire is in impact
Trump’s announcement that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “full and whole ceasefire” got here quickly after Iran launched a restricted missile assault Monday on a U.S. navy base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear websites. The U.S. was warned by Iran prematurely, and there have been no casualties.
Trump’s announcement on Fact Social stated the ceasefire starting about midnight Washington time would convey an “Official END” to the conflict.
Israel doesn’t affirm ceasefire however seems to pause strikes
Israel didn’t instantly acknowledge any ceasefire, however there have been no reviews of Israeli strikes in Iran after 4 a.m. in Tehran. Heavy Israeli strikes continued in Iranian cities till shortly earlier than that point.
Underneath the Trump plan, Israel was to halt its assaults on Iran by 1:30 p.m. Tehran time. There’s been no report of Israel launching assaults in opposition to Iran since early Tuesday morning.
The Israeli navy declined to touch upon Trump’s ceasefire assertion and the workplace of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t instantly reply to a message in search of remark.
Iranian officers had not commented since Trump’s announcement however hours earlier stated they had been ready to halt airstrikes.
“As of now, there’s NO ‘settlement’ on any ceasefire or cessation of navy operations,” Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in a publish on X. “Nevertheless, offered that the Israeli regime stops its unlawful aggression in opposition to the Iranian individuals no later than 4 am Tehran time, we now have no intention to proceed our response afterwards.”
His message was posted at 4:16 a.m. Tehran time. Araghchi added: “The ultimate determination on the cessation of our navy operations can be made later.”
Trump describes battle as ’12 Day Struggle’
Trump gave the battle between Israel and Iran a reputation: the “12 Day Struggle.” That recollects the 1967 Mideast conflict, identified by some because the “Six Day Struggle,” through which Israel fought a gaggle of Arab international locations together with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
Trump’s reference carries emotional weight for the Arab world, notably Palestinians. Within the 1967 conflict, Israel captured the West Financial institution and east Jerusalem from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria. Although Israel later gave the Sinai again to Egypt, it nonetheless holds the opposite territories.
Trump communicated instantly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to safe the ceasefire, in line with a senior White Home official who insisted on anonymity to debate the Monday talks. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and particular envoy Steve Witkoff communicated with the Iranians via direct and oblique channels.
The White Home has maintained that the Saturday bombing helped get the Israelis to comply with the ceasefire and that the Qatari authorities helped to dealer the deal.
It’s unclear what position Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s chief, performed within the talks. He stated earlier on social media that he wouldn’t give up.
Assaults from Iran forces short-term closure of Israel’s skies
Israel’s Airports Authority stated Iran’s barrage pressured them to shut the nation’s airspace to emergency flights for a number of hours.
Some flights had been pressured to circle over the Mediterranean Sea, in line with Israeli media.
Israel’s airports have been closed for the reason that conflict with Iran started, however a handful of emergency flights began arriving and departing over the previous few days.
By early Tuesday, Qatar Airways resumed its flights after Qatar shut down its airspace over the Iranian assault on Al Udeid Air Base. Flight-tracking knowledge confirmed industrial plane once more flying in Qatari airspace, signaling Doha believed the menace on the energy-rich nation had handed.
Battle has killed a whole bunch
In Israel, at the very least 24 individuals have been killed and greater than 1,000 wounded within the conflict. Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at the very least 974 individuals and wounded 3,458 others, in line with the Washington-based group Human Rights Activists.
The group, which has offered detailed casualty figures from Iranian unrest such because the protests surrounding the dying of Mahsa Amini in 2022, stated of these killed, it recognized 387 civilians and 268 safety pressure personnel.
The U.S. has evacuated some 250 Americans and their instant members of the family from Israel by authorities, navy and constitution flights that started over the weekend, a State Division official stated.
There are roughly 700,000 Americans, most of them twin U.S.-Israeli residents, believed to be in Israel.
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Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Related Press writers Josef Federman in Jerusalem, Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad, Abby Sewell in Beirut, Elise Morton in London, Geir Moulson in Berlin, Ella Joyner in Brussels, Edith M. Lederer on the United Nations and Stephanie Liechtenstein in Vienna contributed to this report.
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