Iran targets Israel in missile volley with ceasefire at risk

Sherif Tarek, Galit Altstein, Eltaf Najafizada, Bloomberg News on Jun 7, 2026

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Iran fired several missile barrages toward Israel, threatening to disrupt a fitful ceasefire in the U.S.’s 100-day conflict with Tehran.

“At this time, the Israeli Air Force is operating to intercept and strike threats where necessary,” the Israel Defense Forces said, before warning of an additional volley of missiles. The military said it intercepted all the missiles in the initial rounds and that no casualties had been reported yet.

Mohsen Rezaee, a military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, told the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency that the missile launch toward Israel was a “warning to cease their hostile actions” in Lebanon.

The fresh attack follows hard on the heels of an escalation between Israel and Hezbollah. Early Sunday, the Lebanese militia attacked targets in northern areas of the Jewish state, whose army responded with a strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs. At the same time, the U.S. and Iran appear to be making little progress toward an interim deal to end the war.

President Donald Trump told Fox News after the attack that he still wants a negotiated solution as he urged Iran to resume negotiations. “You shot your missiles,” he was quoted as saying. “That’s enough.”

As warning sirens sounded in several areas, Israel said it canceled school across the country for Monday.

The past week saw the worst flare-up in tensions since the truce started around April 8. Negotiations between Washington and Tehran are bogged down over the fate of billions of dollars of frozen Iranian assets and a parallel conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah continued over the weekend. The Israel Defense Forces said they’d intercepted two projectiles launched from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday.

Israel retaliated with a strike on two apartment buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs, killing two and injuring 11.

Hezbollah last week rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon announced by the State Department just hours before.

Iran has demanded a ceasefire in Lebanon before an accord can be reached with the U.S. A military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei told CNN “the ball is in Trump’s court” when it comes to a deal.

In Washington, Trump’s team is floating a plan to steer Iranian assets frozen in the U.S. toward helping Persian Gulf allies rebuild from damage inflicted by the Islamic Republic.

Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he would not unfreeze any Iranian assets or lift any sanctions against Iran as part of an initial deal.

“If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking” about releasing the assets, Trump told Kristen Welker in the interview taped Friday for NBC’s Meet the Press.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi poured cold water on the idea, saying in a post on X that his country’s assets “are neither Washington’s war spoils nor a fund for paying its allies.” He also noted that Iran is still demanding “full compensation” for its own damages from the war Israel and the U.S. started on Feb. 28.

The dispute risks derailing the discussions on a truce extension, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and future talks over Iran’s nuclear program.

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—With assistance from Susanne Barton and Jennifer A. Dlouhy.