President Donald J. Trump has announced a 10‑day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, describing it as a major diplomatic step toward stabilising the wider Middle East and calling it his “10th war” resolved worldwide. In a public statement issued on his Truth Social account, Trump said the pause in hostilities follows direct contact between Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and is intended to create space for further US‑facilitated talks.
Trump stated that the 10‑day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel will begin at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, which corresponds to 3:30 a.m. IST on Wednesday, and is designed to reduce immediate violence along the border and around southern Lebanon. The statement emphasises that the truce follows what Trump described as “excellent conversations” with both Aoun and Netanyahu, and that the two leaders agreed to formally initiate the ceasefire to pave the way for broader peace efforts.
US and Middle Eastern media reports note that the announcement was made after a rare meeting in Washington, D.C., between representatives of Israel and Lebanon—marking the first such high‑level contact between the two countries in over three decades. While the US president has framed the 10‑day pause as a first step toward a longer‑term peace process, no immediate formal confirmation has yet come from Hezbollah, which has been a key actor in the Lebanon‑Israel hostilities.
In the same statement, Trump wrote, “It has been my honour to solve 9 wars across the world, and this will be my 10th, so let’s, GET IT DONE!”, linking the Lebanon‑Israel ceasefire to his broader narrative of crisis‑resolution and regional‑security diplomacy. Analysts and open reports describe the remark as part of Trump’s effort to position the Middle East ceasefire as a capstone to his second presidential term, amid ongoing tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and wider Iran‑related conflict dynamics.