Trump’s fragile Iran-Israel ceasefire explained: Sam Kiley reports from Israel

Will Trump's fragile Iran-Israel ceasefire hold? What we know so farThe Independent/ Sam Kiley

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00:00You're looking at what is probably the safest place in the whole of the Middle

00:03East. That is the Dome of the Rock, next to it is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, sacred of

00:09course to the Islamic world and then it sits on top of the Temple Mount, the

00:14site of the second Jewish temple, sacred therefore to all Jews. Now there is no

00:20way on earth or indeed in heaven that the Iranians are going to fire their

00:26missiles against this location but the Israelis have accused them of breaching

00:31the overnight ceasefire they believe was agreed with the Donald Trump, Iran and

00:36Israel to ceasefire at some time over the next 24 hours starting at around dawn

00:44this morning. Since dawn though there have been at least four or five salvos of

00:49rockets fired by the Iranians as some of which may have impacted in the north of

00:54the country and they certainly did hit in the south killing three Israelis. Now

00:59the Israelis have said that they are going to strike back very heavily in

01:04targets in central Tehran the Iranian capital so at the moment there are no

01:10signs that the ceasefire is going to hold. It is an indication though that

01:15Donald Trump wants to keep America out of any further escalation having over the

01:19weekend agreed to operate alongside Israel to use those deep penetrating bunker

01:25buster bombs against the Iranian nuclear facilities buried deep in the mountain at

01:31Fordow but it is not clear whether or not those nuclear facilities have been

01:36knocked out but it is clear that following this very rapid escalation the

01:41Iranians seem to have wanted to get back onto a diplomatic track that may be

01:45because they want to preserve the longevity of their regime and that

01:50precisely is why for the Israelis a ceasefire at this time presents them with a

01:56very awkward conundrum. They don't want to be out of line with the Americans but

02:00they do want to carry on prosecuting a military option against the Iranians in

02:06the hope that there could be a revolution there and ultimately regime change.