Trump: Iran, Israel both violated ceasefire, but it’s still ‘in effect’

  • Ceasefire, acknowledged by both parties, went into effect Monday
  • Within hours, Israel says Iran launched more missiles
  • Iran denied the strikes amid retaliatory threats from Israel

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(NewsNation) — A ceasefire in the Middle East announced by President Donald Trump on Monday faltered within hours of taking effect.

Israel has accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace, a salvo that Iran’s military has denied, according to state media.

Israeli forces at first vowed to “respond with force.” Both Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and Eyal Zamir, the Israel Defense Forces chief of the general staff, called for a return to fighting.

Katz instructed Israel’s military to resume “the intense operations to attack Tehran and to destroy targets of the regime and terror infrastructure.”

Trump: Both Israel, Iran violated ceasefire

Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he’s unhappy with both Israel and Iran’s actions leading up to — and in the first hours of — the agreement.

“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they are doing, you understand that?” Trump said outside the White House.

He said both countries violated the deal, but took to Truth Social afterward to insist the agreement remains “in effect” and that Israel’s planes would “turn around and head home.”

“ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect!” he wrote in a Truth Social post.

Timeline: Israel-Iran ceasefire, violation claims

  • 6:02 p.m. EDT: Trump announced both sides had agreed to a ceasefire.
  • 2:07 a.m.: Iranian state media says the ceasefire has started.
  • 2:22 a.m.: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces he’s accepted the deal.
  • 3:34 a.m.: Israel says it detected missiles launched from Iran
  • 4:03 a.m.: Israel Defense Ministry orders the IDF to resume strikes on Iranian government and military targets.
  • 4:51 a.m.: Iran’s military denies it fired missiles after the ceasefire went into effect.

NewsNation crews on the ground in Israel said the country’s atmosphere remains uncertain but cautiously optimistic as the fighting approaches the two-week mark.

Iran retaliates against US with attacks on military bases

Trump’s role in the conflict has grown since the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, effectively drawing America into the military fold.

Iran launched a limited missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar in retaliation for the United States’ “Operation Midnight Hammer” strikes.

The U.S. was warned by Iran in advance, and there were no casualties.

Drones also attacked military bases in Iraq overnight, including some housing U.S. troops, the Iraqi army and a U.S. military official said Tuesday.

No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the attacks in Iraq. Some Iran-backed Iraqi militias had previously threatened to target U.S. bases if the U.S. attacked Iran.

NewsNation’s Anna Kutz and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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