Trump Says Israel-Lebanon Cease-Fire Is Extended

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Trump Says Israel-Lebanon Cease-Fire Is Extended

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In the southern Lebanese village of Mansour on Tuesday.

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David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

By

Matthew Cullen

April 23, 2026,

5:55 p.m. ET

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President Trump announced this evening that the cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel

would be extended by three weeks

. Earlier in the day, peace talks between Israeli and Lebanese officials were relocated to the White House so Trump could be more closely involved.

Just hours before the president’s announcement, Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, had been trading fire with the Israeli military. Hostilities between the two have threatened to undermine U.S. efforts to negotiate a deal with Iran, which sees peace in Lebanon as a key condition.

U.S.-Iran tensions are still heightened in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran said it seized two ships yesterday. Trump declared today that the U.S. Navy would “shoot and kill any boat” laying mines in the strait.

Trump also suggested that Iran was leaderless. Reporting from my colleague Farnaz Fassihi found that the

generals in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were largely running the country

. The new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, remains in hiding, surrounded mostly by a team of doctors.

Khamenei is struggling to speak after suffering grave injuries to his face and lips in the strikes that killed his father, Farnaz reported. Messages to him are handwritten and relayed via a human chain. The combination of his injuries and isolation has led him to largely delegate decisions to the commanders.

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Mourners in Lebanon paid respects to Amal Khalil, a

journalist known for being intrepid

.

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