JERUSALEM, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening spoke by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump about the ongoing escalation in fighting on the Lebanese front, Israel's state-owned Kan TV News and other Israeli media outlets reported.
The reports did not detail the content of the conversation between the two leaders.
Trump said Monday night that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back hostilities following his separate calls with Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives.
Kan reported that Israel had been preparing since morning to attack the Beirut suburb, but in the afternoon decided to postpone it after U.S. intervention.
Israel's Channel 12 News quoted an Israeli senior official as saying that Hezbollah had expressed readiness in recent days for a full ceasefire without an immediate withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon.
The channel also quoted a Lebanese senior official as saying that Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told the Trump administration on Sunday that Hezbollah was ready for a full and immediate ceasefire with Israel and had pledged to guarantee its implementation.
Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said they had ordered the army to strike the Beirut suburb of Dahieh, considered a Hezbollah stronghold, amid increased rocket and drone launches by Hezbollah toward northern Israel and Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon. ■
