ISRAEL'S minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say "no" to U.S. President Donald Trump and continue strikes on Hezbollah.
"This is the time to tell our friend, President Trump—'no'. Now is the time to do what is required and necessary to strike Hezbollah," Ben-Gvir wrote in a post on X Monday (June 1).
Earlier, Trump said he spoke with Iran-aligned Lebanese militia group Hezbollah through intermediaries and secured a pledge that it would not attack Israel.
Trump said he also spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israel has agreed to pull back any troops that were preparing to attack southern Lebanon.
No U.S. president has ever spoken with Hezbollah, with or without intermediaries. The group is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States.
The fighting in Lebanon has been the broadest spillover of the Iran war, displacing more than 1.2 million Lebanese through Israeli strikes and evacuation orders since March 2, when Hezbollah began firing rockets and drones into Israel to back its ally Iran.
