Trump Intervenes to Block Israeli Beirut Strike

US President Trump intervened in a heated phone call with Prime Minister Netanyahu to prevent a large-scale Israeli attack on Beirut, according to reporting from Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Trump reportedly expressed fury at Netanyahu's Lebanon incursion and threatened consequences, marking a sharp escalation in tensions between the US and Israeli leadership over military operations that threaten to collapse a US-brokered ceasefire.