Vehicles leave Tyre in southern Lebanon on 9 June, 2026, after the Israeli army warned the entire city to evacuate ahead of strikes. Photograph: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images
Vehicles leave Tyre in southern Lebanon on 9 June, 2026, after the Israeli army warned the entire city to evacuate ahead of strikes. Photograph: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images
Israel issues forced evacuation order for residents of Lebanese city of Tyre
The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has issued the latest forced evacuation order for residents of Tyre, Lebanon’s fifth biggest city, ahead of attacks.
“Urgent warning to the residents of the city of Tyre, including the Christian quarter, and the camps and surrounding neighbourhoods,” he wrote, urging residents in the southern Lebanese city to “evacuate immediately” and “move north beyond the Zahrani river”.
The strikes will be carried out because Hezbollah violated the ceasefire agreement and is targeting “Israel’s home front”, Adraee said, but these attacks, which occur on a near-daily basis, often are reported to kill civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure.
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on 7 June 2026. Photograph: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images
More than a million people have been displaced by Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon, sparking a refugee and humanitarian crisis with the sweeping evacuation orders forcing people to flee their homes, often with very short notice or no notice at all. Many have few resources, limited access to basic services, food, shelter and healthcare.
The IDF says it is countering the Hezbollah threat against northern Israel and has been demolishing homes, occupying territory in the south of Lebanon and launching attacks on towns and villages with impunity under this justification.
Iran, which has backed and funded Hezbollah for decades, has made it clear that no peace deal with the US can be signed until Israel ceases its attacks in Lebanon (not just Beirut, but in the south as well).
Lebanon was drawn into the war when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on 2 March to avenge the US-Israeli killing of Iran’s former supreme leader.
At least two Iranian military members killed in Israeli attack on Iran
Iran’s state TV said at least two members of an Iranian air defence unit were killed in Israeli attacks on Monday.
State TV identified the men as Bahman Hosseini and Ali Reza Abiri, without offering a rank for them. Their funerals will reportedly be held today. The report said they would be buried in a city outside of Tehran, suggesting they had been posted near the capital.
The oil price is dropping this morning, after Donald Trump declared that negotiations towards an Iran peace deal are in their “final throes”.
The US president made the comments to reporters at JFK airport after attending the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden (where he was roundly booed by the crowd).
Brent crude has dropped by 1% this morning, to $93 a barrel – still around $20/barrel above its levels before the conflict began in late February.
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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are close allies with a deeply complicated and often strained relationship that has shown signs of fracturing over recent days. The Guardian’s senior international correspondent, Julian Borger, has looked into how the two leader’s diverging political priorities are undermining ceasefire negotiations. Here is an extract from his analysis piece:
Trump and Netanyahu went to war together against Iran on 28 February but fell out of step within days, as soon as it was clear that the quick victory and regime change promised by the Israelis was unlikely to materialise. From then on, their interests have increasingly diverged.
The electoral pressure on Netanyahu pushes him in the opposite direction. Unless he can orchestrate a turnaround, his ruling coalition stands to lose in the vote, which must be held before the end of October. As things stand, for all the bombing of the past three years, he cannot claim to have fulfilled any of his pledges to neutralise Israel’s major adversaries: Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Netanyahu’s political logic drives him towards further onslaught in the hope of a breakthrough, such as regime collapse in Tehran. To secure support from the Israeli far right, Netanyahu has to show himself ready to defy Trump from time to time in pursuing that multi-front campaign, but no leader of Israel can afford to burn bridges with Washington, its principal security guarantor. That leaves a fine line to tread.
Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and US president Donald Trump walk into Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, in December 2025. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP
Here are some of the latest images coming out of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre after the Israeli military issued a sweeping evacuation order for residents:
Vehicles exit Tyre in southern Lebanon after the Israeli army warned the entire city to evacuate ahead of strikes. Photograph: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images
Residents are fleeing Tyre after Israel issued another forced displacement order for Lebanon’s fifth biggest city. Photograph: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images
A car loaded with suitcases leaves Tyre on Tuesday. Photograph: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli airstrike on Tyre kills eight people - report
At least eight people have been killed after an Israeli airstrike on a popular housing area in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the civil defence in southern Lebanon has told Al Jazeera Arabic. We have not been able to independently verify this report.
The IDF earlier issued a forced evacuation order for Tyre, warning residents to flee before an attack was launched (see post at 08.32 for more details).
Iran’s football federation (FFIRI) said on Tuesday that its ticket allocation for the World Cup has been pulled just days before it starts, leaving supporters who had already made travel plans unable to attend their team’s matches.
“This is despite the fact that many Iranian football fans, relying on the officially announced process, had already made the necessary plans to attend the matches,” the FFIRI added in a statement.
Gaza’s health ministry said in its latest update that at least 7 people were killed and 34 others injured in Israeli attacks across the territory over the past day. It said one other person died as a result of previous injuries.
The health ministry says 978 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since the ‘ceasefire’ between Israel and Hamas came into effect in October 2025.
It says that 72,988 people, many of whom were women and children, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since October 2023, when Israel launched its assault on the territory following the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage.
We can bring you more comments Donald Trump gave reporters last night at JFK airport. When asked about a report that a US army helicopter went down near the strait of Hormuz, the US president replied “the pilots are fine” and that nobody was injured.
“We are going to issue a report tomorrow but the pilots are fine,” he said.
It came after the NY Times reported that a US army Apache helicopter gunship went down near the strait of Hormuz yesterday, with the two crew members safely rescued.
It was not clear whether the helicopter was downed by Iranian fire or if there was some sort of mechanical issue or another problem, one of the people briefed on the incident told the outlet.
At least four people have been killed by Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, the country’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported this morning.
The strikes were reported in the towns of Adshit, Haboush and Kfar Rumman.
Israel issues forced evacuation order for residents of Lebanese city of Tyre
The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has issued the latest forced evacuation order for residents of Tyre, Lebanon’s fifth biggest city, ahead of attacks.
“Urgent warning to the residents of the city of Tyre, including the Christian quarter, and the camps and surrounding neighbourhoods,” he wrote, urging residents in the southern Lebanese city to “evacuate immediately” and “move north beyond the Zahrani river”.
The strikes will be carried out because Hezbollah violated the ceasefire agreement and is targeting “Israel’s home front”, Adraee said, but these attacks, which occur on a near-daily basis, often are reported to kill civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure.
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on 7 June 2026. Photograph: Kawnat Haju/AFP/Getty Images
More than a million people have been displaced by Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon, sparking a refugee and humanitarian crisis with the sweeping evacuation orders forcing people to flee their homes, often with very short notice or no notice at all. Many have few resources, limited access to basic services, food, shelter and healthcare.
The IDF says it is countering the Hezbollah threat against northern Israel and has been demolishing homes, occupying territory in the south of Lebanon and launching attacks on towns and villages with impunity under this justification.
Iran, which has backed and funded Hezbollah for decades, has made it clear that no peace deal with the US can be signed until Israel ceases its attacks in Lebanon (not just Beirut, but in the south as well).
Lebanon was drawn into the war when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on 2 March to avenge the US-Israeli killing of Iran’s former supreme leader.
In a phone interview with the BBC, Donald Trump said he had stressed the need “to use a lot of common sense” when he spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, who he has reportedly grown increasingly exasperated with during the war.
“All I did is say, ‘we have to use sense’. We’re very close to signing a very powerful deal, a very good deal,” Trump said of the conversation. “No nuclear weapons, no nothing. You know, we have to use a lot of common sense. It was fine.”
On Netanyahu firing missiles against Iran early on Monday, despite the US president’s request not to, Trump said: “They had already gone. They were already on their way.” He added: “If I tell him to do something, he does it.”
Strait of Hormuz could be open in 'two or three days' if Iran peace deal is reached, Trump says
The US president, Donald Trump, has said the peace deal with Iran is in its “final throes” and suggested that the strait of Hormuz could open up in “two or three days” if an agreement with Tehran is secured.
“It will open up immediately upon signing,” he told reporters on the tarmac at JFK airport after watching the NBA Finals on Monday night, insisting that Iran will not be allowed nuclear weapons under the terms of a deal.
Trump said there are no “sticking points” that would prevent a deal from being reached, although the management of the strait, the way frozen Iranian assets are to be released and Israel’s war on Lebanon have all contributed to the deadlock in negotiations thus far.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to resume full-scale bombing of Iran, although has pulled back several times as he likely knows that new strikes will keep the strait of Hormuz under the effective control of Iran and lead to an extremely dangerous escalation of attacks on US-allied Gulf states.
The effective closure of the strait has led to soaring energy prices around the globe, including in the US where the war is deeply unpopular. Trump said:
We are very close to having a very, very good strong, powerful deal. If we go and bomb – which we can do very easily if we want and we spend another two or three weeks bombing – they’ll have nothing left whatsoever but you won’t have the strait open for months.
If we do the bombing a lot of people are going to be killed. Who wants to do that? I don’t . And we’ll have a signed document that is actually stronger than doing the bombing.
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before boarding Air Force One prior to departure from JFK international airport in New York. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Striking a rather casual tone, Trump told reporters Israel and Iran had been in conflict for thousands of years, and after his intervention would leave each other alone for at least a week.
He said he had a “very good conversation” with Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under political pressure to continue his assault on Lebanon in order to degrade the military capabilities of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group.
“He (Netanyahu) was hit, and he hit back, and I can’t blame him for that,” Trump said. “But he was hit, he hit back, and now they’ve called it quits. So they’re going to just leave each other alone for another week or something.”
Israel, ignoring Trump’s wishes, attacked the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Sunday in what Tehran viewed as a violation of the US-Iran ceasefire. Israel claimed it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after it said the group fired rockets at northern Israel.
Iran in turn launched missiles at Israel on Sunday and a fresh exchange of fire between the two sides occurred yesterday. Iran announced a cessation of its attacks after Trump demanded both sides stop “shooting” in a social media post.
Tehran said, however, that it would attack again if Israel persisted with its strikes in Lebanon, while Netanyahu warned that should Iran “make the mistake of resuming attacks against us, we will respond with full force”.
