Have Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire? What we know

US President Donald Trump connected Monday announced that Israel and Iran person reached a ceasefire, hours aft Iran launched a rocket onslaught connected the Al Udeid airbase successful Qatar – the largest United States subject basal successful the Middle East.

“The ceasefire is present successful effect. Please bash not interruption it!” Trump posted connected his Truth Social level connected Monday.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has agreed to the truce proposal, and Iranian authorities TV reported that the ceasefire had begun.

However, Israel has ordered strikes connected Tehran aft accusing Iran of violating the truce – an allegation rejected by Iran.

Here is what happened successful Qatar, what Trump has said, and the latest connected the ground.

Did Iran onslaught the US basal successful Qatar?

Yes.

On Monday evening, consecutive flares were seen and large explosions were heard successful Qatar’s capital, Doha, alongside different parts of the country.

In a statement, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its onslaught was successful effect to the “blatant subject aggression” by the US connected Iran’s atomic facilities.

Tehran said it attacked the Al Udeid airbase due to the fact that it “serves arsenic the bid centre of the US Air Force and is the largest strategical plus of the American violent service successful West Asia”.

Qatar said it had successfully changeable down 18 of 19 missiles deployed. No casualties were reported.

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani connected Tuesday reiterated Qatar’s condemnation of Iran’s rocket onslaught connected the Al Udeid airbase, calling it an “unacceptable act”.

“The onslaught connected the authorities of Qatar is an unacceptable act, particularly arsenic Qatar has been making large diplomatic efforts successful bid to de-escalate the situation,” said Sheikh Mohammed, adding Doha was “taken by surprise” by the determination from what it considers a “neighbourly” country.

Earlier, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Iran’s ambassador to protestation against Monday night’s attack.

But Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson defended the attack, saying it was a morganatic effect nether Article 51 of the UN Charter.

The onslaught was retaliation for the “unprovoked aggression against Iran’s territorial integrity and nationalist sovereignty” by the US connected Sunday erstwhile it deed 3 of Iran’s atomic sites, Esmaeil Baghaei wrote connected X.

Iran has stressed that Monday’s onslaught was not directed astatine the “brotherly” authorities of Qatar.

What did Trump accidental astir the ceasefire?

In a station connected Truth Social, Trump said that a “complete and total” ceasefire has been reached betwixt Iran and Israel.

In his station astatine 22:00 GMT, Trump wrote that the ceasefire would instrumentality effect “in astir 6 hours from now”.

He additionally specified a timeline:

• The archetypal six-hour window, which ended astatine 04:00 GMT, was to let Iran and Israel to implicit their “final missions”.
• Iran would commencement the ceasefire archetypal astatine 04:00 GMT connected Tuesday.
• Israel would travel 12 hours aboriginal astatine 16:00 GMT.
• Israel indispensable instrumentality to the ceasefire for 12 hours, aft which the ceasefire volition beryllium considered to beryllium successful afloat effect.
• This timeline volition people the authoritative extremity to what helium termed the “Twelve Day War” betwixt Israel and Iran.

Has Israel agreed to the ceasefire?

The Israeli premier minister’s bureau released a connection saying that Netanyahu has accepted the ceasefire and volition present a connection aboriginal connected Tuesday.

The connection added that Israel has achieved “all objectives” of its cognition against Iran.

“Israel has removed a dual contiguous existential menace – some successful the atomic and ballistic rocket fields,” the connection said.

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

This came aft Dan Illouz, a subordinate of Netanyahu’s Likud party, opposed the ceasefire, saying the lone woody the authorities indispensable motion is Iran’s “surrender agreement”.

Tel Aviv-based governmental commentator Ori Goldberg told Al Jazeera that Netanyahu’s claims that each objectives were secured earlier the ceasefire are “ridiculous”.

“It is truly unclear, to accidental the least, what Israel’s goals were. Over the past week, we heard Israel speech astir everything from the decapitation of the atomic programme to authorities change.”

Goldberg said Netanyahu had nary prime but to backmost the ceasefire owed to the harm caused by Iranian attacks and unit from the Trump administration.

“Netanyahu decided to gamble connected Trump coming to his rescue. Trump did, and Netanyahu is truthful obligated to assistance successful Trump’s goal, which was and inactive is yet securing the determination woody and not launching a determination war.”

Did Iran hold to the ceasefire?

Iran’s apical information assemblage said connected Tuesday it had agreed to the truce. The Supreme National Security Council, however, added Tehran does not spot Israel and has its “hands connected the trigger”, acceptable to “deliver a decisive … effect to immoderate violating act”.

Sheikh Mohammed, who is besides Qatar’s overseas minister, urged each parties to abide by the ceasefire brokered by the Trump administration. “Washington has asked america to pass with Iran to find its openness to a ceasefire,” helium said.

Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem said that Qatar played a mediation role, helping to bring this [conflict] to an end.

“US President Trump spoke astir this, saying that – contempt the onslaught that took spot connected Al Udeid – Qatar played this role. It’s, of course, different triumph for Qatari diplomacy,” helium said from Tehran.

What is the latest connected the ground?

An Iranian rocket struck a gathering successful Israel’s Beersheba connected Tuesday morning, sidesplitting astatine slightest 4 radical and injuring respective others.

The Times of Israel reported that Israel intercepted 2 Iranian ballistic missiles connected Tuesday.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz instructed the Israeli subject to “respond forcefully to Iran’s usurpation of the ceasefire with aggravated strikes against authorities targets successful the bosom of Tehran”.

Iran’s subject has denied the Israeli assertion that it launched missiles astatine Israel implicit the past fewer hours successful a abbreviated connection carried by authorities media.

In a Truth Social station connected Tuesday, Trump warned Israel against dropping bombs successful Iran, saying: “ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!”

“ISRAEL is not going to onslaught Iran. All planes volition crook astir and caput home, portion doing a affable “Plane Wave” to Iran. Nobody volition beryllium hurt, the Ceasefire is successful effect! Thank you for your attraction to this matter!”

Trump’s past of ceasefire claims

Last month, Trump claimed helium had helped broker a ceasefire aft 4 days of tit-for-tat rocket and drone attacks betwixt South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan.

However, violations of the ceasefire were reported hours aft Trump’s announcement connected May 10. Both the nuclear-armed neighbours blamed each different for breaching the ceasefire agreement.

While the concern successful South Asia has been calm since, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Trump connected June 18 that the ceasefire was achieved done talks betwixt subject officials connected some sides, rather than US mediation, according to Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri.

The Trump medication took recognition for mediating the ceasefire to extremity the warfare successful Gaza. The ceasefire was announced connected January 15 and took effect 4 days later.

On March 18, Netanyahu unilaterally ended the ceasefire and resumed attacks connected Gaza, sidesplitting thousands since then. Trump supported Netanyahu’s decision.

Since Israel launched the warfare connected Gaza successful October 2023, it has killed much than 56,000 Palestinians, and a full blockade since March 2 has resulted successful deaths by starvation and malnutrition. After immense planetary pressure, Israel allowed constricted UN-led assistance deliveries to resume connected May 19. Later, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli and US-backed body, was formed to administer assistance successful the Palestinian enclave. But rights groups accidental the assistance organisation centres person turned into “human slaughterhouses”. On Monday, Israel killed at slightest 43 people who were seeking assistance successful Gaza.

On the run trail, Trump had promised to extremity the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine connected his archetypal time successful office. This did not happen.

After aggregate talks conducted betwixt US officials, separately with Russian and Ukrainian officials successful Saudi Arabia, the 3 sides person been incapable to hold connected a full ceasefire.

In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to halt attacks connected Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure but stopped abbreviated of a broader US-backed ceasefire for 30 days. The Trump medication besides got Moscow to motion a Black Sea deal successful March to assistance halt warring successful the Black Sea. Russia and Ukraine traded blasted for violating the presumption of some agreements, which person present expired.