War in the Middle East: Israel and Iran resume their attacks, a first since the start of the ceasefire

Israel carried out Monday June 8, 2026, despite calls for restraint from Donald Trump, air strikes against Iran after being the target of missiles from the Islamic Republic for the first time since the establishment of the truce in the Middle East.

Des explosions à Jérusalem et à Téhéran

After 100 days of war and two months after the entry into force of a ceasefire Already very weakened, the region threatens to flare up again, endangering Donald Trump’s desire to reach an agreement with Tehran.

Jerusalem awoke to the sound of an explosion as an air alert and that the army reported a new salvo of Iranian missiles targeting it – the third in less than 24 hours.

A few hours earlier, Iranian state television had reported d’explosions à Téhéran and the cities of Tabriz (northwest) and Isfahan (center), at a time when the Israeli army announced that its air force had bombed “military targets belonging to the Iranian terrorist regime in western and central Iran”.

Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, said that surface-to-surface missile launch sites as well as “infrastructure not linked to the energy sector” had been targeted, accusing Iran of having fired 11 ballistic missiles towards his country during the first two missile waves – all intercepted according to the army.

No self-respecting country would tolerate such an attack.

Tehran, for its part, presented these attacks as a “warning”, in retaliation for an Israeli bombing on the southern suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of the pro-Iranian Islamist movement Hezbollah, leaving two dead and 20 injured, despite a truce theoretically concluded between Lebanon and Israel but widely flouted.

Oil on the rise

It is the first time Iran fires missiles against Israel since the ceasefire of April 8. But negotiations between Washington and Tehran have since been unsuccessful and the two countries have already attacked each other several times in recent days around the Strait of Hormuz, with no end in sight for a war which has engulfed the Middle East and shaken the world economy.

According to the media AxiosDonald Trump spoke on Sunday evening with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so that Israel does not retaliate and that any signing of an agreement with Tehran is not put in danger. No official report has been released.

 We are on the verge of reaching a final agreement with Iran. It will be a good match. I don’t want it to fall through because of what’s happening now,” he said, according to Axios journalist Barak Ravid, who said he spoke with him on the phone.

The two leaders already had a heated exchange a few days ago, according to Mr. Trump, who said he was unhappy with the Israeli offensive in Lebanon at a time when he is looking for a way out of a very unpopular conflict in the United States in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Oil prices, which have already soared in recent weeks due to the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, started the week with a sharp rise, with the barrel of Brent jumping by more than 3% and exceeding $96.

Des écoles femées

Fueling fears of regional conflagration, Israel says it has identified a missile launch targeting its territory from Yemenwhere the Houthi rebels had already joined the conflict in support of Iran before the ceasefire.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced that they had targeted “terrorist groups” in Sulaymaniyah, in Iraqi Kurdistan. And in Saudi Arabia, emergency services issued a brief alert to the population in the province of Al-Kharj where the American base of Prince Sultan is located.

After its strikes in Iran, the Israeli army warned to “remain on high alert and fully prepared to continue its operations on all fronts against those who threaten” the country.

Israel announced the closure of all schools in the country, while Iraq reported the temporary closure of its airspace on Sunday evening, as did Syria – partially.

Iran also closed its airspace in the western part of the country on Sunday evening until further notice. Flights at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran, one of the two main airports in the capital, have been suspended until further notice, the Iranian Mehr agency reported on Sunday evening.

“A resumption of the conflict between Iran and Israel is in no one’s interest,” insisted the head of British diplomacy Yvette Cooper on X, calling on “both parties to exercise restraint and immediate de-escalation.”

Strikes in Lebanon

These attacks further push away a possible agreement to end the war started on February 28 by Israeli-American strikes.

In an interview given to a journalist from Fox NewsDonald Trump regretted the Iranian strikes on Beirut, which “will not help the negotiations”, assuring, as already several times in recent weeks, that an agreement was “very close.”

However, there remain many sticking points for a possible compromise: control of the Strait of Hormuz (essential for the hydrocarbon trade), the Iranian nuclear program and its stock of highly enriched uranium as well as the fate of Iranian assets frozen abroad under the effect of sanctions.

Another difficulty: the question of whether or not to include Lebanon in a possible agreement between Washington and Tehran. While the United States strives to dissociate the two fronts, for Iran, they are effectively inseparable.

Quoted by the Mehr agency, Iranian diplomatic advisor Ali Safari affirmed that the missile launches had taken place “ after more than a month of restraint in the face of repeated violations of the ceasefire ” on the part of Israel which has in recent days extended its offensive against Hezbollah.

The official Lebanese agency ANI reported on Monday morning Israeli air strikes in the region of Tyre, a thousand-year-old city in the south.

Israeli strikes on Lebanon have left 3,613 dead since the start of the war on March 2, according to the latest report from the authorities on Sunday. On the Israeli side, 29 soldiers and a civilian contractor were killed in Lebanon, according to the army.

With AFP

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