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Summary

✔️Trump said Israel need not bomb entire apartment buildings to target Hezbollah militants

✔️Rebuke comes amid tensions between Trump and PM Netanyahu over Lebanon, Iran deal

✔️White House said Trump still has a strong relationship with Netanyahu

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - U.S.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a rare public rebuke of Israel's military tactics in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah militants, saying it ‌was unnecessary to bomb entire apartment buildings to hunt militants.

Trump, who in recent days had expressed his displeasure over Israeli attacks in Beirut that he said could have endangered his peace deal with Iran, said Israel has been fighting Hezbollah, the Iran-aligned Lebanese militia, for "too long".

"Too many people have been killed. You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're not all Hezbollah," Trump said at the G7 ⁠summit in France.

His complaint comes at a moment of rising tensions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has remained a key political ally despite occasional ups and downs between the two leaders over the years.

Recently, tensions have been more prominent. Israeli officials are quietly expressing frustration about the Iran deal that the Republican president struck while Trump is growing impatient with Netanyahu over Israeli strikes of Beirut, which triggered Iranian attacks just when he was working to finalize the peace deal.

Trump said he has a "great relationship" with Netanyahu but in the same breath added that he should be "more responsible" with Lebanon. "Without us, without the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did."

omenka:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-criticizes-israels-tactics-lebanon-says-it-is-killing-civilians-2026-06-16/

What are your thoughts on Trump's remarks?

madridguy:
Trump is saying it out publicly

omenka:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-criticizes-israels-tactics-lebanon-says-it-is-killing-civilians-2026-06-16/

What are your thoughts on Trump's remarks?

Flangelo12:
Old age don dey make the man talk true small small.

Disinhibition.

PDPdestroyer:
This is the real Christian genocide. Trump should invade the now disgraced Israel, guns-ablazing

jaxxy:
Like hezbollah isnt killing civilians.

Flangelo12:
Old age don dey make the man talk true small small.

Disinhibition.

geoworldedu:
This is what you get when you pitch your tent with a terrorist nation like Israel. Wise people like us already knew that Israel will eventually drag USA and Trump into mess. Israel is a pig and will do anything to get messy. We see how they behave right from the bible.

"Wheresoever the sole of our feet shall tread shall be given to us for possession"

Hitler hit them hard those days.

Awon Fulani ancestors

Satazaa:
Isn't astonishing how a country that was once admired and loved by a large proportion of the world to now ranking as by far the most despised and hated, the innocent souls and spirits of the 70k plus women and children they murdered in cold blood in the guise of self defense will haunt them forever 😔😔

PigTormentor:
So it's just now that Trump sees and knows that Israel is nothing but a terrorist state?
He's been blind all these times to the atrocities of the terrorist zionist apartheid govt in Israel.
He's just waking up from his slumber, may be because the vast majority of Americans are tired of the Israeli asking for money and American lives just for them to continue to kill innocent people around the world.

buygala:
So if Hezbollah is killing civilians, Isreal should do same as well?

What now makes them different from the "terrorists" they are fighting?

PigTormentor:
The genocide will never be forgotten.

omenka:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-criticizes-israels-tactics-lebanon-says-it-is-killing-civilians-2026-06-16/

What are your thoughts on Trump's remarks?

Satazaa:
Isn't astonishing how a country that was once admired and loved by a large proportion of the world to now ranking as by far the most despised and hated, the innocent souls and spirits of the 70k plus women and children they murdered in cold blood in the guise of self defense will haunt them forever 😔😔

UrVillageChief:
Maybe the "innocent" civilians too should stop harboring terrorists in their homes or how you see am?