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Live update: Israel-Iran ceasefire remains unclear after Iranian missile barrage strikes Israel

Live update: Israel-Iran ceasefire remains unclear after Iranian missile barrage strikes Israel

Iranian state television reported Tuesday that a ceasefire had begun in its war with Israel, even as Israel warned the public of a new missile barrage launched from Iran.
The launches came after 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would stop its attacks if Israel ended their airstrikes.
At least four people were killed in the early morning barrages, but there was no immediate word of further attacks. Israel's Magen David Adom rescue services said at least eight more people were injured in the early morning barrage.
Trump's announcement that Israel and Iran had agreed to a 'complete and total ceasefire' came soon after Iran launched a limited missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites. Israel so far has not acknowledged the Trump ceasefire announcement.
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Date: 2025-06-24 06:09:24
Title:
Residents evacuate buildings in Beersheba
Content: Residents evacuated the impacted buildings, carrying belongings in bags and stuffed suitcases.
Neighbors and family members embraced while trying to figure out where to go next.
More than 9,000 Israelis have been displaced from their homes since the war with Iran began, according to the Prime Minister's Office.
Yehezkiel Cheri said he was in a synagogue for morning prayers Tuesday when the first sirens went off.
As he made his way into his apartment building in between waves of missiles, he felt a huge explosion.
'I saw fire in front of me, and I ran into the apartment,' he said.
'I don't think we need to continue this war. It's a shame. These are souls of God, and we need to protect each one, from every country, everyone needs to care for each person,' he said.
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Date: 2025-06-24 06:08:52
Title:
Israeli airspace reopens
Content: Israel's Airports Authority said the country's airspace has reopened for emergency flights after closing earlier due to an hourslong barrage of missiles from Iran.
Update:
Date: 2025-06-24 06:08:07
Title:
Death toll rises to 4 in Beersheba
Content: Israeli firefighters said they retrieved four bodies from a building hit by an Iranian missile in the city of Beersheba.
The direct hit in the largest city in southern Israel comes just days after the city's hospital sustained significant damage in a missile strike.
The search and rescue team said they retrieved four bodies from one building in Beersheba and were searching for more.
Update:
Date: 2025-06-24 06:07:10
Title:
Iran state television announces ceasefire has begun
Content: Iranian state television reported Tuesday that a ceasefire had begun in its war with Israel, even as Israel warned the public of a new missile barrage launched from Iran.
It wasn't immediately possible to reconcile the messages from Iran and Israel on the 12th day of their war.
Iranian state television announced the ceasefire in a graphic on screen, not immediately acknowledging the new missile barrage coming after the deadline set by President Donald Trump in his earlier ceasefire announcement.
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Claim: A group of Cambodian monks thanked U.S. President Donald Trump in summer 2025 for ending a war between Cambodia and Thailand. Rating: What's True: Cambodian monks on a march for peace thanked Trump for his role pressuring the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand to agree to a ceasefire following an armed conflict between the two countries. What's False: While Trump contributed to the truce, he did not "end a war" between Cambodia and Thailand. The ceasefire occurred after 5 days of armed conflict at the border between the two countries, not a sustained war, and a ceasefire refers to a temporary pause in conflict, not a permanent end. In August 2025, a claim spread online that a group of Cambodian monks had thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for ending a war between their country and Thailand. Many of the posts included one or more images that appeared to show monks in orange robes holding signs with pictures of Trump's face. The rumor spread on X, Facebook and Instagram. One post spreading the claim, from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, received over 45,000 likes on X as of this writing. These posts need context. It is true that a group of Cambodian monks thanked Trump for his peacemaking efforts. However, they expressed gratitude to the U.S. president for his role in helping broker a temporary pause in fighting, also known as a ceasefire, between Cambodia and Thailand — not for permanently ending any war between the two countries. As a result of the July 28, 2025, ceasefire agreement, Cambodia and Thailand paused fighting in a five-day armed conflict at the neighboring countries' border. While the territorial dispute resulted in the deadliest escalation of violence between Cambodia and Thailand since 2011, neither side officially declared war — and journalists and diplomats, as of this writing, have largely not described it as such. Thus, we rate this claim a mixture of truth and falsehood. Monks thanked Trump On Aug. 10, 2025, a group of Cambodian Buddhist monks participated in a march for peace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, amid reports that the two neighboring countries accused the other of violating the ceasefire. Some of these monks carried signs with a picture of Trump that said: "Thank you! Mr. President." Images of the march and these signs were available through Getty Images, a reputable image bank. Several credible news outlets, including Reuters, also published various pictures and videos of the monks with their posters, further indicating that monks did, in fact, hold up portraits of Trump alongside a message of thanks. According to Reuters, the march "stopped briefly at the US embassy to show gratitude to Trump for initiating the ceasefire agreement." Why the monks thanked Trump On July 26, 2025, Trump said in a Truth Social post that he spoke to the leaders of both countries to "request a Ceasefire, and END to the War, which is currently raging." In his post, he added that he told both countries he would not negotiate any trade deal with either side until the fighting stopped. Two days later, Thailand and Cambodia came to a ceasefire agreement. At the time of Trump's threat, both countries faced a potential 36% U.S. tariff that would have begun on Aug. 1. Three days after the ceasefire announcement, the White House announced a reduction in the tariff rate for both countries to 19%. In a July 31 exclusive, Reuters reported that Trump's call "prompted Thailand to join ceasefire talks." Snopes cannot independently verify Reuters' report. However, according to multiple reputable outlets, after Thailand's acting prime minister, Phumtham Wechayachai, and Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Manet, agreed on the ceasefire, both thanked Trump. (They also thanked Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who hosted the peace talks, and China, whose diplomats participated in the meeting.) 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The AP, long considered the standard for journalistic language, "considers the number of casualties, the intensity of fighting, the involvement of each party, and what each country was calling the conflict" to determine whether it describes a conflict as "war" to avoid diminishing the word's importance. As such, the claim that Cambodian monks thanked Trump for "ending a war," while somewhat accurate, may have misrepresented the scope or nature of the conflict as well as the subsequent peace talks. Al Jazeera Staff. "Thailand and Cambodia Agree to Ceasefire: Will It Stop the Deadly Fighting?" Al Jazeera, 28 July 2025, Accessed 20 Aug. 2025. Bartlett, Kate. "Thailand and Cambodia Agree to Ceasefire. What's behind the Conflict?" NPR, 28 July 2025, "Cambodia-Thailand: Border Violence Turns More Violent and Deadly — Expert Comment." ACLED, 8 Aug. 2025, Accessed 20 Aug. 2025. Cheang, Sopheng, and Jintamas Saksornchai. "Tensions Linger despite Ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia." AP News, 29 July 2025, Accessed 20 Aug. 2025. "CNBC-TV18 on Instagram: 'over 2,500 Cambodian Buddhist Monks Marched, Carrying Banners and Flags to Promote Peace with Thailand. The Monks Also Thanked US President Trump for Supporting the Cambodia-Thailand Ceasefire, Following the Worst Border Clashes between the Two Nations in over a Decade. #Cambodia #Thailand #BorderClashes #Trump #Cnbctv18digital.'" Instagram, 11 Aug. 2025, Accessed 20 Aug. 2025. "Definition of War." Merriam-Webster, Drury, Flora. "Why Are Thailand and Cambodia Fighting at the Border?" BBC, 24 July 2025, "Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates." The White House, 31 July 2025, "How the AP Decided to Refer to the Conflict between Israel and Iran as a War." AP News, 20 June 2025, Accessed 20 Aug. 2025. Manet, Hun. "ស្របតាមសំណូមពររបស់ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរទាំងក្នុងនិងក្រៅប្រទេស និងដើម្បីជាការថ្លែងអំណរគុណចំពោះឯកឧត្តមប្រធានាធិបតី Donald Trump..." 7 Aug. 2025, Accessed 20 Aug. 2025. Nachemson, Andrew. 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