🇱🇧 🇮🇱 3 Merkavas have already been blown up on the outskirts of Bint Jbiel

🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Map of the Israeli illegal invasion on Lebanon

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Trump told Netanyahu to scale down bombings of Lebanon Wednesday night (last night) to prevent any issues with the ongoing ceasefire and Friday negotiations -NBC Reports

🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Netanyahu announces direct negotiations with Lebanon for the first time since 1982.

🇱🇧 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Lebanese-Israeli negotiations will take place at the U.S. State Department with the Israeli ambassador and the Lebanese ambassador Nada Hamadeh-Moawad.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says a ceasefire must fully include Palestine, yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon. They will be meeting on Saturday, Pakistan time. (Not Friday).

🇮🇷 NOW: Iranian Leader Mojtaba Khamenei: "The arrogant ones in the world have shown their true colors when they resorted to killing our children"

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Israeli officials are now telling Israeli TV that they are scaling back bombings in Lebanon after urgent U.S. pressure to do so.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Israeli strikes are continuing across southern Lebanon. The Lebanese government has informed the U.S. that negotiations will ONLY take place under a ceasefire.

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Trump: “Netanyahu told me he is Lowkey”

This was a real quote moments ago.

🇵🇰 🇱🇧 🇮🇱 Pakistani Defense Minister: Israel is an evil and a curse on humanity. While peace talks are underway, it commits genocide in Lebanon

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Putin announces Orthodox Easter ceasefire with Ukraine.

Saturday night to Sunday night

🇦🇪 Air defenses are over Dubai.

Unclear what’s happening.

Explosions also reported in Kuwait and Bandar Abaas Iran.

🇱🇧 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu explicitly agreed to Involve Lebanon to the ceasefire.

- Officials tell CBS

Bombs continue falling anyways

🇱🇧 🇮🇱 Hezbollah launched several rockets and ballistic missiles at IDF positions within Lebanon and Haifa the past hour. Hits confirmed

🇮🇷 Iran denies any attacks on the gulf states today.

Kuwait previously blamed Iran.

Missiles from Hezbollah are over Tel Aviv

Trump gives his thoughts on Iran's current closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to Israel's attacks on Lebanon.

🇮🇷🇺🇸No delegation from Iran has gone to Islamabad for negotiations. Iran has informed Pakistan that if Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire, Iran's team will not go to Islamabad.

🇺🇸 Trump "threatened to leave" NATO and "unloaded his frustration" at NATO Secretary-General Rutte in their latest meeting today, using the meeting as a "venting session." An EU official says the meeting "went shit," and the "conversation was nothing but a tirade of insults"

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 China pushed Iran to agree to a ceasefire, in an attempt to win favor with the Trump administration. Xi aims to convince Trump that Taiwan is a "breakaway province" of China in their meeting next month - WSJ

The harsh reality is that Iran is a chess piece for Russia and China….