US-Israel-Iran War Live News Updates: Won't Be Rushed To End War, Says Trump; Israel-Lebanon Extend Ceasefire

“The people of Lebanon, the people of Israel are neighbors and they want to get along,” said Mike Huckabee, the U.S. envoy to Israel, who was on hand for the White House talks.

“They can get along,” he said. “But it's like neighbors who have a rough little kid living in the neighborhood who keeps throwing rocks at everybody's window. And if the kid will quit throwing rocks, the neighbors can get along and start actually working together.”

(Source: AP)

US President Donald Trump reiterated that the US continues to demand that Iran stop it's backing of proxy groups in the Mideast, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, as part of any deal between Washington and Tehran to end the U.S. war on Iran.

“Yeah, they'll have to cut that,” Trump said to a reporter's question about aiding the militant group. “That's a must.”

Speaking alongside US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said Israel and Lebanon “have never been next to each other more than today.” Leiter thanked Trump and Vice President JD Vance for a day he said was decades in the making.

“We are going to keep going, working for peace. Let's hope we will get it as soon as possible,” he said.

Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad thanked Trump for presiding over “this historic moment.” She added: “I think with your help, with your support, we can make Lebanon great again.”

US President Donald Trump says Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House. Trump says the meeting between Israel's and Lebanon's ambassadors to the United States went “very well.” The meeting was the second high-level negotiation between the two countries since last week.

Iran's capital saw air defense systems in action as explosions were heard in the western part of the city. State media said the move was against “hostile targets, “ without any elaboration.

Witnesses said air defense systems were also heard southwest of the city.

“I don't want to rush myself,” said US President Donald Trump, who added that Iran's leadership is in “turmoil.”

Trump in an exchange with reporters in the Oval Office also pushed back against questions that the conflict is exceeding the four-to-six week timeline that he and aides previously set for the war. Trump also said he's not considering using a nuclear weapon against Iran.