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Fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire holds as Trump lashes out at both sides

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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President Trump is in the Netherlands for the NATO summit as the ceasefire between Iran and Israel is holding. Israel described enormous damage to Iran’s nuclear program. But PBS News Hour learned an initial U.S. assessment of the damage caused by the American bombing of 3 Iranian nuclear sites suggests the sites have not been as destroyed as Trump has claimed. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Welcome to the News Hour. President Trump is in the Netherlands tonight in advance of tomorrow's

0:05.3

NATO summit, while in the Middle East, the ceasefire between Iran and Israel is holding. Israel tonight

0:11.3

described enormous damage to Iran's nuclear program, but the PBS News Hour has learned

0:16.3

an initial U.S. assessment of the damage caused by the American bombing of three Iranian nuclear

0:22.1

sites suggests the sites have not been as destroyed as President Trump has claimed.

0:28.2

Nick Schifrin is in the Hague tonight and begins with the apparent end of fighting between

0:32.3

Israel and Iran.

0:35.6

In Tehran, a tense quiet the city hasn't seen in nearly two weeks, a fragile ceasefire now holding.

0:43.4

After final strikes leading up to the truce, Israel said it hit dozens of Iranian missile launchers and military targets.

0:50.9

And in the largest city in southern Israel, a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles tore

0:56.7

off the top floors of this apartment building, at least four killed, dozens wounded.

1:02.6

But some survivors rescued from the rubble by Israeli firefighters.

1:09.0

I went out during the siren, and in the middle of the building, when I was going toward

1:12.9

the safe room, it blew up.

1:14.9

I saw something close to me.

1:16.5

I saw fire in front of me.

1:19.0

It was the final Iranian strike before the ceasefire.

1:22.2

But Israel says it kept firing interceptors, including this one that fell in northern Israel

1:26.9

and accused Iran of two

1:28.3

ceasefire violations. That's when Israeli chief of the general staff, Ayal Zemir, warned,

1:33.2

in light of the severe violation of the ceasefire carried out by the Iranian regime,

1:37.5

we will respond with force. Quickly, President Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

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