Israel and Iran on Tuesday (June 24, 2025) accepted a ceasefire plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to finish their 12-day conflict that roiled the Middle East, after Tehran launched a retaliatory restricted missile assault on a U.S. army base in Qatar.
The acceptance of the deal by each side got here after Tehran launched a last onslaught of missiles focusing on Israel that killed a minimum of 4 individuals early Tuesday (June 24, 2025) 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 Mr Trump.
Mr. Netanyahu stated that he had reported to Israel’s safety cupboard Monday night time that Israel had achieved all of its conflict objectives within the 12-day operation in opposition to Iran, together with eradicating the specter of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile applications. Israel additionally broken Iran’s army management and a number of authorities websites and achieved management over Tehran’s skies, Mr. Netanyahu stated.
“Israel will respond forcefully to any violation of the ceasefire,” Mr. Netanyahu stated.
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Heavy Israeli strikes continued in Iranian cities till shortly earlier than 4 a.m., adopted by Iranian barrages that despatched Israelis hurrying into bomb shelters because the solar rose, killing a minimum of 5 individuals and injuring eight others, Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue companies stated.
Writing over an hour after a deadline handed for Iran to halt its assaults, Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social: “THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!”
Iranian state tv reported that the ceasefire went into impact at 7:30 a.m., however Iranian officers haven’t commented since Trump’s announcement. Hours earlier Iran’s prime diplomat stated the nation was ready to halt airstrikes.
“As of now, there is NO ‘agreement’ on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in a put up on X. “However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards.”
Mr. Araghchi added: “The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”
Iran’s barrage broken a minimum of three densely packed residential buildings within the metropolis of Beersheba, police stated.
First responders stated they retrieved 4 5 from one constructing and have been trying to find extra. Outside, the shells of burned out automobiles littered the streets. Broken glass and rubble coated the realm. Hundreds of emergency staff gathered to seek for anybody else trapped within the buildings.
Police stated some individuals have been injured even whereas inside their flats’ bolstered protected rooms, which are supposed to face 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 Mr. Trump stated the ceasefire had gone into impact.
Mr. Trump’s announcement that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” got here quickly after Iran launched a restricted missile assault Monday on a U.S. army base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear websites. The U.S. was warned by Iran upfront, and there have been no casualties.
Mr. Trump’s announcement on Truth Social stated the ceasefire starting about midnight Washington time would carry an “Official END” to the conflict.
Mr. Trump gave the battle between Israel and Iran a reputation: the “12 Day War.” That recollects the 1967 Mideast conflict, identified by some because the “Six Day War,” wherein Israel fought a gaggle of Arab nations together with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
Mr. Trump’s reference carries emotional weight for the Arab world, significantly Palestinians. In the 1967 conflict, Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria. Though Israel later gave the Sinai again to Egypt, it nonetheless holds the opposite territories.
Mr. Trump communicated immediately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to safe the ceasefire, in accordance with a senior White House 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 by way of direct and oblique channels.
The White House has maintained that the Saturday bombing helped get the Israelis to conform to 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.
Israel’s Airports Authority stated Iran’s barrage compelled them to shut the nation’s airspace to emergency flights for a number of hours.
Some flights have been compelled to circle over the Mediterranean Sea, in accordance with Israeli media.
Israel’s airports have been closed because the conflict with Iran started, however a handful of emergency flights began arriving and departing over the previous few days.
By early Tuesday (June 24, 2025), Qatar Airways resumed its flights after Qatar shut down its airspace over the Iranian assault on Al Udeid Air Base. Flight-tracking information confirmed business plane once more flying in Qatari airspace, signaling Doha believed the menace on the energy-rich nation had handed.
In Israel, a minimum of 24 individuals have been killed and greater than 1,000 wounded within the conflict. Israeli strikes on Iran have killed a minimum of 974 individuals and wounded 3,458 others, in accordance 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 American residents and their rapid relations from Israel by authorities, army and constitution flights that started over the weekend, a State Department official stated.
There are roughly 700,000 American residents, most of them twin U.S.-Israeli residents, believed to be in Israel.
Published – June 24, 2025 12:17 pm IST