President Donald Trump expressed confidence in the prospect of keeping Israel from attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon after the United States made substantial progress to end the Iran war this week.

Asked if he will be able to control Israel to prevent a future outbreak in the war, the president replied, “Yeah, I will be.”

“They have a lot of respect for me, and they do as I say,” he said of Israel in a clip of his interview on The Axios Show released on Friday.

Israel has consistently bombed Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist proxy based in Lebanon, in response to the group’s attacks on Israel. Jerusalem and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire on Friday following a severe escalation of fighting overnight. Trump told NBC News that he had called Israel beforehand, asking them to agree to a ceasefire with the terrorist group. The president declined to specify if he had spoken directly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on that call.

The latest Israeli airstrikes killed at least 47 people in southern Lebanon and injured 97 others, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The Israeli military said it struck 80 Hezbollah-linked targets. Israeli strikes have reportedly continued since the ceasefire deadline.

U.S. intelligence reported by the Washington Post says Israel may seek to undermine the peace deal with Iran. Tensions between Trump and Netanyahu have recently come to the forefront over disagreements about how the war should end.

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