Listed below are the important thing occasions as a ceasefire was declared within the 12-day Israel-Iran battle.
Right here’s the place issues stand on Tuesday, June 24:
Combating
- A US-brokered ceasefire started at round 04:00 GMT on Tuesday, with Iran halting assaults first and Israel following swimsuit 12 hours later.
- After a rocky begin, the ceasefire was holding later within the day, with the missiles and drones silent in each instructions for the primary time in practically two weeks.
- The phased 24-hour course of was initially violated by each Iran and Israel.
- Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz initially ordered “intense strikes” on Tehran, accusing Iran of violating the truce first, one thing Iran denies.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin shortly acceded to United States President Donald Trump’s demand to face down on additional assaults.
- Netanyahu’s workplace stated Israel’s navy “destroyed a radar set up close to Tehran”, claiming it was in retaliation for a number of earlier Iranian missile strikes.
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stated 14 missiles had been launched towards navy centres throughout Israel, including that the final wave of missiles was carried out minutes earlier than the ceasefire implementation and in response to lethal Israeli strikes.
Casualties and disruptions
- Iran’s Crimson Crescent Society introduced that 4 of its ambulance employees had been killed by the Israeli navy. They recognized the medics as Mojtaba Maleki, Mehdi Zartaji, Amirhossein Jamshidpour and Yasser Zivari.
- The Iranian judiciary stated a number of staff and visiting members of the family died because of Israel’s assault on Evin Jail on Monday.
- Iran’s Well being Ministry stated 610 individuals had been killed in Israeli strikes over the previous 12 days.
- Israel’s navy stated a soldier, recognized as 18-year-old Eitan Zacks from Beersheba, was killed “because of a missile launched from Iran”. Three others died in that assault.
- Israel stated its airspace has reopened for emergency flights, whereas Israel’s flag provider stated it should increase its flight schedule to deliver tens of hundreds of Israelis again from overseas.
- Syrian airspace reopened after being quickly closed, Syrian media reported.
- Oman Air stated its flight operations additionally returned to regular following cancellations final night time over regional tensions.
- Other countries in the region, together with Qatar and Iraq, additionally reopened their airspace, with flight operators confirming their plans to renew providers on Tuesday.
Politics and diplomacy
- Trump stated he was “really unhappy” with Israel for violating the truce. He referred to as on Israel to cease dropping bombs and to “deliver your pilots residence, now!”
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared the “finish of the 12-day struggle” with Israel to be a “whole victory”.
- Pezeshkian additionally stated his nation is able to resolve points with the US primarily based on worldwide frameworks.
- Pezeshkian called Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani a day after an Iranian assault on the US navy base Al Udeid and expressed “remorse”, noting Qatar and its individuals weren’t the goal of the assault.
- Netanyahu stated that Trump “expressed his immense appreciation” for attacking Iran, and that Israel “achieved all the struggle’s objectives”.
- Netanyahu additionally stated: “We rose like a lion, and our roar shook Tehran. This struggle will likely be studied in all of the armies of the world. We destroyed the crucial amenities in Arak, Natanz, and Isfahan.”
- Trump stated in a submit on his Reality Social platform that it was a “nice honour” to “destroy” Iran’s nuclear amenities, after which “cease the struggle”.
- Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi stated Tehran is extra decided to carry on to its nuclear programme after the 12-day Israeli assault, saying “our scientists made huge sacrifices and even misplaced their lives for this objective”.
- Iranian Deputy Overseas Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh, in remarks to Al Mayadeen TV, stated that Iran is alert and prepared to reply to any assault.
- Yemen’s Houthi rebels lauded Iran’s “heroic” battle towards Israel, with the group’s spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam saying the struggle was additionally towards “different Western nations that stood with the aggressors”.
- Overseas Minister Wang Yi stated China helps Iran in attaining a “real ceasefire” after it condemned the US for putting the nation’s nuclear websites.
- .British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met on the NATO summit in The Hague, saying that it was now “time for diplomacy”, as the delicate ceasefire took maintain.
