Clashes continue in Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting US partial ceasefire plan

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · Jun 01, 2026 · 891 words · By Jaroslav Lukiv

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Clashes continue in Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting US partial ceasefire plan Clashes have continued in southern Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting a US plan for a partial ceasefire.

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Why it matters

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had spoken to both sides and "they agreed that all shooting will stop", after Iran warned Israeli military actions in Lebanon were a threat to the US-Iran ceasefire.

Common ground

Lebanon said Hezbollah had accepted the plan for it to halt attacks on Israel and for Israel not to attack the Lebanese capital Beirut.

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Claim 1: “there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back”

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Claim 2: “Lebanon was drawn into the war between the US, Israel and Iran on 2 March, when Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel in retaliation for an Israeli strike that killed Iran's supreme leader”

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Claim 3: “the Israeli prime minister said he had ordered strikes on "terror targets" in Beirut's southern suburbs”

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The Guardian and other sources confirm that the Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister ordered strikes on 'terrorist targets' in Beirut's southern suburbs.

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Claim 4: “Iran and its allies could "activate other fronts, including the Bab al-Mandab Strait"”

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Claim 5: “The Israeli military has struck Beirut twice since the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into force on 16 April”

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Claim 6: “President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had spoken to both sides and "they agreed that all shooting will stop"”

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Multiple independent sources (Al Jazeera and other web search results) confirm President Trump stated that both sides agreed that 'all shooting will stop'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A war between Israel and Hezbollah took place in Lebanon during 2024 amid the Middle Eastern crisis. The war began in September 2024 following nearly 12 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire is a cessation of hostilities agreed between Israel and Lebanon on 16 April 2026, amid the ongoing 2026 Lebanon war and wider regional conflict linked to the 2026 Ira…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Israel–Lebanon_ceasefire

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas's October 7 att…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah–Israel_conflict_(202…

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Claim 7: “At least 3,433 people have been killed in Lebanon since the start of the war, according to the country's health ministry”

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Claim 8: “The Israeli military said it had intercepted two projectiles that had been fired from Lebanon in the early hours of Tuesday”

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The specific detail about intercepting two projectiles on Tuesday morning appears only in the BBC report provided in the evidence for claim 4; other search results for the Israeli military are general and do not confirm this specific event.

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt t…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

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web search NEUTRAL — News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Israel Israeli attacks on Gaza and occupied West Bank kill two, including child Health officials at Nasser Medical Complex tell Al Jazeera a 12-year-old child was killed in al-Mawasi, Gaza…
https://www.aljazeera.com/where/israel/

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Claim 9: “Israel and the US launched strikes against Iran on 28 February”

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Claim 10: “The US has said it hit Iranian military sites over the weekend, while Tehran said it responded by targeting a US base in Kuwait”

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Claim 11: “Hezbollah said its fighters had targeted Israeli tanks in the southern Lebanese towns of Haddatha and Bayada with missiles and shells”

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The claim is corroborated by both a BBC report and Hezbollah's own Military Media footage regarding targets in Haddatha and Bayada.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Arabic: قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان; Hebrew: כוח האו"ם הזמני בלבנון), or UNIFIL (Arabic: يونيفيل; Hebrew: יוניפי״ל) is a United Nations peacekeeping…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Interim_Force_i…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, with Israel invading parts of Lebanon. It is a resumption of major fighting …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war

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web search NEUTRAL — Hezbollah said its fighters had targeted Israeli tanks in the southern Lebanese towns of Haddatha and Bayada with missiles and shells. The Israeli military said it had intercepted two projectiles that…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c202rxp1z15o

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Claim 12: “The three-month-long war has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz waterway”

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Claim 13: “Israel says 25 of its soldiers and four Israeli civilians have been killed over the same period on both sides of the border”

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Claim 14: “Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported Israeli strikes on several southern areas and said a "very violent" explosion from a large-scale demolition rocked the town of Debbine”

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Lebanon's state-run news agency is cited in multiple web results reporting strikes in southern Lebanon and specific demolition activities in the region.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 13, 2026 · #FPReels: Israel Strikes Beirut Suburbs Following Evacuation Orders Israeli airstrikes hit southern Beirut suburbs on Friday, ...
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · According to Lebanon's state-run news agency, Israel has launched fresh strikes on southern Lebanon, killing at least five people.
https://www.facebook.com/SkyNewsAustralia/posts/according-to…

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 26, 2026 · Yevgeni Trofimov , Lebanon has excavators too that can be used by IDF.|Willis Gitau The solar panel is part of the building.
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/posts/israeli-soldiers-us…

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Claim 15: “Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying the US-Iran truce was "unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon"”

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While there is evidence of a US-Iran deal mediated in Switzerland, the specific quote from Abbas Araghchi regarding a ceasefire 'on all fronts, including in Lebanon' is not present in the provided evidence.

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Claim 16: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio had proposed a plan for "gradual de-escalation" there to Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun”

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Claim 17: “A truce between the US and Iran came into force on 8 April”

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Claim 18: “Around a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies usually pass through the strait”

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Claim 19: “Israel and Hezbollah accepting a US plan for a partial ceasefire”

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The claim is reported by BBC and a U.S. official via ABC News (Facebook snippet), confirming that Israel and Hezbollah accepted a US plan for a partial ceasefire.

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web search NEUTRAL — On 3 June, Israel and Lebanon agreed to renew the ceasefire, mediated by the US, and plan to establish "pilot zones". ... On 4 June, Hezbollah rejected the truce ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Israel–Lebanon_ceasefire

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... Clashes have continued in southern Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting a US plan for a partial ceasefire. President Donald Trump ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c202rxp1z15o

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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago ... JUST IN: Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire beginning at 4 p.m. local time, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News. Read more: https ...
https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/posts/just-in-israel-and-he…

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Claim 20: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the agreement”

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Web search results indicate Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed agreements to ceasefires proposed by Trump, specifically mentioning agreements in June 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Benjamin Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949), nicknamed "Bibi", is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 199…
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Claim 21: “Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil prices, jumped almost $5 (£3.70) a barrel to $97.44 before falling slightly to $95.70”

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Claim 22: “Iran's Tasnim news agency reported that Tehran could suspend indirect negotiations with the US over Israeli military actions in Lebanon”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the report from Tasnim news agency.

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Claim 23: “Lebanon said Hezbollah had accepted the plan for it to halt attacks on Israel and for Israel not to attack the Lebanese capital Beirut”

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The claim is corroborated by multiple cross-references from Deutsche Welle stating that Beirut reported Hezbollah's agreement to cease attacks in exchange for Israel not attacking the capital.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, is a long-running conflict involving Israel, Lebanon-based paramilitary groups, and sometimes Syria. The conflict peaked during the Lebane…
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