António Guterres welcomes truce and says through spokesperson he hopes halt in fighting will ‘pave the way for negotiations’ The US president, Donald Trump, has posted a short statement on Truth Social about the 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. “May have been a historic day for Lebanon. Good things are happening!!!” Trump wrote, signing off as “President DJT”. A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has come into effect, pausing fighting in a devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,100 Lebanese people and displaced more than 2.1 million. The agreement was announced earlier by Donald Trump, who said he had spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, and invited both leaders “for meaningful