President Trump announced Tuesday on his social media platform that the ceasefire between Iran and Israel “is now in effect,” urging both sides to respect the truce.
“The ceasefire is now in effect. Pleaes do not violate it,” he wrote on Social Truth.
The ceasefire follows a phased plan outlined by Trump: Iran would halt its military operations first, with Israel to follow 12 hours later, and a formal end to hostilities 12 hours after that. But with sirens still sounding across Israel earlier today, the truce appears fragile.
Casualties amid truce
Israeli firefighting teams confirmed they retrieved four bodies from a residential building in Beersheba struck by an Iranian missile, amid an ongoing barrage of strikes.
This incident comes shortly after Beersheba’s hospital suffered significant damage during a previous salvo. Israeli airports reopened for emergency flights after being shut during the missile attack. The Israel Defense Forces reported detecting missiles inbound from Iran early Tuesday morning.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X that Iranian forces maintained their operations until 4 a.m. local time but would refrain from further action if Israel honored the ceasefire—while noting that a “final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”
U.S. stance
Trump, earlier dismissing Iran’s attack on the U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar as a “very weak response,” confirmed no U.S. casualties among the roughly 10,000 American service members stationed there.
With both sides under the international spotlight to maintain the ceasefire, each passing hour will determine whether this 12-day conflict is truly ending—or merely pausing before the next explosion.
