Israel-Iran war: Trump says Lebanon and Israel agree to extend Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire by 3 weeks

Israel says it struck Hezbollah missile launcher in Lebanon that had fired into Israel

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Israel's military said it struck a missile launcher in Lebanon that had fired into Israel on Thursday (April 23, 2026) in an attack that Israeli air defences intercepted. Hezbollah claimed the attack.

Israel's announcement of the strike came soon after U.S. President Donald Trump said the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire had been extended by three weeks.

Mr. Hezbollah said it had launched rockets toward Israel in retaliation for an Israeli strike on the Lebanese village of Yater. Two people, including a child, were wounded by Israeli artillery shelling there, said Lebanon’s public health ministry.

Trump said the meeting between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the United States, the second in the past week, went

“very well,” but during an Oval Office gathering he acknowledged that “they do have Hezbollah to think about.” The Iranian-backed group has opposed the talks, and since the initial ceasefire went into effect last Friday, there have been multiple violations by both sides.

Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was seriously wounded in the U.S.-Israeli airstrike that killed his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei but is “mentally sharp”, the New York Times reported on Thursday (April 23, 2026).