Israel continues to strike southern Lebanon after holding off on Beirut attack

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Asked about Monday evening's announcements, Youssef al-Zein, the head of Hizbullah's press office, said the group would not take a public stance without a formal declaration that would compel Israel to implement a comprehensive cessation of hostilities across all Lebanese territory.
40% : Israel had pounded Beirut's southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, in an early phase of the war, but carried out only two strikes there since Trump declared a Lebanon ceasefire in April.
39% : "Every time we return to our homes, there is a warning for us to be displaced again," said Chehime, speaking at a camp sheltering displaced people in central Beirut. More than 1.2 million people in Lebanon have been uprooted by the war, which has raged since Hizbullah fired on Israel in support of Tehran on March 2nd.
31% : Israel says 26 of its soldiers and four civilians have been killed in Hizbullah attacks since March. -
30% : He pointed to Israel's continued air strikes on Lebanon after a 2024 truce that ended the last war between Hizbullah and Israel and after the April 16th truce announced by Trump.
28% : "If Israeli aggression on Lebanon continues, we won't just stop the negotiation track, but we will be in a direct confrontation with the enemy," Iran's top negotiator, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said he told Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri, according to a post by Qalibaf on X. A flurry of calls appeared to defuse the escalation: Trump said on Monday he had asked Netanyahu not to carry out a major raid on Beirut and that Hizbullah, through intermediaries, had pledged not to attack Israel.
25% : If Israel's northern communities are attacked, the Israeli military would evacuate and strike Beirut's southern suburbs, warned ⁠Israeli defence minister Israel Katz in remarks provided by his office.
23% : Israeli military says it intercepted two projectiles crossing from Lebanon Israel kept up strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday, pressing its campaign against Hizbullah a day after US president Donald Trump asked Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu not to attack Beirut, averting further escalation in the three-month-old war.
20% : Tensions had spiked on Monday after Netanyahu ⁠ordered strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, with Iranian state media reporting that Tehran had ⁠stopped indirect talks with Washington due to Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran's military warning residents of northern Israel they should leave to avoid harm if Israel attacked Beirut.
13% : Following Trump's intervention, Lebanon's government said Israel would refrain from carrying out threatened strikes on the Hizbullah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, while the group would halt attacks against Israel.

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