Netanyahu calls off Lebanon raid after heated call with Trump

US President Donald Trump said he persuaded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call off the strike on Beirut, following which the Israeli leader ?turned his troops around?.

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Monday evening amid reports that the conversation between the two leaders was ?heated? and the US president telling Netanyahu that he would have been in prison but for his intervention.

?I had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu today (Monday), asking him not to go into a major raid of Beirut,



Lebanon. He turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi,? he said, referring to the Israeli prime minister by his widely used nickname.

Trump?s phone calls with Netanyahu came after Iran threatened to end the negotiations with the US over Israel?s attacks on Lebanon. Netanyahu had said Israel would hit ?terror targets? in Beirut if Hezbollah did not stop attacking Israel.

The president said he also had a conversation with the representatives of the leaders of Hezbollah, who agreed to ?stop shooting at Israel and its soldiers?.