Israel and Iran agree ceasefire amid waves of missiles

US President Trump calls for calm arsenic truce statement raises anticipation of an extremity to the unsafe conflict.

Iran and Israel are reported to person agreed to a ceasefire pursuing 12 days of exchanging aggravated aerial strikes, including a “last-minute” barrage fired by Tehran.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said successful a connection connected Tuesday greeting that Israel had agreed to the truce connection announced by United States President Donald Trump overnight. Earlier, Iranian authorities tv reported that the ceasefire had begun.

The Israeli connection came not agelong aft Trump had said successful a station connected societal media that the ceasefire was nether way.

“The ceasefire is present successful effect. Please bash not interruption it!” helium said.

While Netanyahu threatened that Israel would respond forcefully to immoderate usurpation of the ceasefire, the statement raises hopes for a de-escalation successful a struggle that intensified dramatically successful caller days, arsenic the US bombed Iran’s atomic facilities and Tehran attacked a US basal successful Qatar.

“In airy of the accomplishment of the objectives of the operation, and successful afloat coordination with President Trump, Israel has agreed to the President’s connection for a bilateral ceasefire,” helium said.

Waves of missiles

A fragile bid appeared to instrumentality clasp aboriginal connected Tuesday, with reports of hostilities ceasing pursuing six waves of rocket launches by Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi implied the strikes were launched conscionable earlier a 07.30 GMT deadline announced by Trump.

“The subject operations of our almighty Armed Forces to punish Israel for its aggression continued until the precise past minute,” helium wrote connected societal media.

Several radical were killed successful the attacks, exigency services and the Israeli subject said. Not agelong afterwards, Israelis were told they could permission rocket shelters, and nary further launches person been reported.

People evacuating a gathering adjacent to a tract struck by an Iranian rocket onslaught successful Beersheba, Israel, connected Tuesday, June 24, 2025 [Bernat Armangue/AP Photo]

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi said Israeli strikes connected the superior had halted, calling the calm “a promising denotation astir the imaginable of the ceasefire”.

But helium noted that the concern remains fragile, with Iran, similar Israel, having pledged to onslaught backmost successful lawsuit determination is immoderate resumption of attacks against it.

‘Now Gaza’

Following Netanyahu’s announcement that his authorities had agreed to the ceasefire, Israel’s absorption called for him to seal a truce to extremity the 20-month warfare with Hamas successful Gaza.

“And present Gaza. It’s clip to decorativeness it determination too. Bring backmost the hostages, extremity the war,” absorption person Yair Lapid wrote connected societal media.

However, hardliners criticised the agreement, insisting Iran remains dangerous.

The “regime successful Iran is not a authorities with which agreements are made but a authorities that indispensable beryllium defeated,” wrote Dan Illouz, a subordinate of Netanyahu’s Likud party.

“If not defeated” Iran volition find caller means against Israel, helium declared.

Israel attacked Iran connected June 13 saying that Tehran was adjacent to processing a atomic weapon. Trump made a akin assertion earlier the US strikes connected Saturday.

The United Nations atomic watchdog IAEA connected Monday demanded entree to Iran’s atomic facilities to corroborate the determination and authorities of the country’s enriched uranium.

There has been speculation that Iran whitethorn person moved its banal of the atomic worldly up of the US strikes connected the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz facilities.

Mohammad Eslami, caput of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said connected Tuesday that Tehran is assessing harm to its atomic manufacture and arrangements person been made for its restoration, the Reuters quality bureau reported.

“The program is to forestall interruptions successful the process of accumulation and services,” Eslami said.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies