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Across the Middle East, three separate ceasefire deals are currently in effect. In all three, deadly strikes are still a frequent occurrence.<\/p>\n

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The contradiction has exposed a growing question: What does a ceasefire actually mean when the fighting never fully stops?<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump appeared to suggest that promises to stop fighting in the region cannot always be trusted, as he addressed the continued exchanges of fire with Iran in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a different part of the world, you know,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cI\u2019d say in that part of the world a ceasefire is when you\u2019re shooting in a more moderate manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same day Trump made his comments, Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least nine Palestinians overnight, according to local hospitals in Gaza, where a ceasefire deal has been in place since October as part of a peace plan brokered by Trump.<\/p>\n

While the heaviest fighting has subsided, Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes and frequently fired on Palestinians, killing more than 936 since the agreement took effect, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry. Both Israel and Hamas have accused the other of breaching the ceasefire and their commitments under the agreement.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that he would like Israel to increase its control over territory in Gaza, despite a stipulation in the peace plan that the Israeli military would initially withdraw to a demarcation line, known as the \u201cyellow line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said he had directed the military to increase control over Gaza to 70%. \u201cWe were at 50. We moved to 60,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Further progress toward peace in Gaza has largely stalled, with no signs of the disarmament of Hamas or the further withdrawal of Israeli troops indicated under Trump\u2019s full 20-point peace proposal.<\/p>\n

The situation is similarly uncertain in Lebanon,where a ceasefire deal between Israel and the Lebanese government announced in Aprilhas not prevented near-daily airstrikes on people and targets Israel says are linked to the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. The Lebanese government says Israel\u2019s actions are violations of the deal, which was also brokered with U.S. help. Israel says Hezbollah has continued to launch rockets and drones at northern Israel.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese Embassy in Washington said Tuesday that Hezbollah had accepted the terms of a U.S. proposal for a \u201cmutual cessation of attacks,\u201d which would also block Israel from attacking Beirut. Its threat to do so had sparked panic in the Lebanese capital, after the U.S. ally\u2019s deepest incursion into its neighbor in 26 years.<\/p>\n

Clashes have continued in the days since, however. Hezbollah officials have denied giving approval for the renewed ceasefire, rejecting calls for withdrawal that the group said would mean \u201csurrender, defeat and achieving the enemy\u2019s goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, the Israeli military was continuing strikes in southern Lebanon, with Lebanon\u2019s armed forces condemning \u201crepeated Israeli aggression against Lebanon\u201d after two officers were killed. The Israel Defense Forces said it would review the incident.<\/p>\n

The IDF did not immediately respond to NBC News\u2019 request for comment over accusations it has breached ceasefire agreements in Lebanon and Gaza, or Trump\u2019s remarks on the meaning of ceasefires in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s comments \u201cspeak volumes\u201d about the real meaning of the word ceasefire, said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n

Israel, he noted, can attack both Lebanon and Gaza \u201cbased on its own estimation of any serious or any potential threat that Israel seems deems threatening to its security, and that\u2019s a very loose definition of the ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems that the term ceasefire no longer really has any kind of operational meaning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

But H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, said it was \u201crank bigotry\u201d for Trump to suggest a ceasefire meant something different in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ve had ceasefires in the region multiple times over history, and they mean as much as they do anywhere else,\u201d he told NBC News.<\/p>\n

The United Nations says there is \u201cno single, universally accepted definition of a ceasefire.\u201d A ceasefire may be expected to \u201coutline prohibited and permitted military and non-military activities,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n

The ceasefire agreement in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, reached nearly two months ago, had successfully paused large-scale strikes while negotiations were taking place toward a broader peace deal. But, as talks have publicly faltered in the past week, both sides have launched fresh strikes.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the U.S. military said it shot down Iranian ballistic missiles and drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf Arab allies, while striking some of the Islamic Republic\u2019s coastal surveillance radar sites in response.<\/p>\n

Iran, which has accused the U.S. of breaching the ceasefire with a blockade of its ports, said it was targeting U.S. troops in the region. The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment over accusations it breached the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fairly clear the Trump administration simply doesn\u2019t want to resume fighting, but hasn\u2019t found a way to bring Iran to agree to conditions Washington finds acceptable,\u201d Michael A. Horowitz, a geopolitical and security analyst, told NBC News.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo we\u2019re stuck with a \u2018ceasefire,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThose ceasefires do not mean \u2018no fire,\u2019 but simply that both sides agree not to return to full-scale war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hellyer added that language matters because the U.S.-Iran war is \u201cbeing fought in public relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe war has tremendous economic impact,\u201d he said, with stability depending on how the markets are feeling. Trump tries to calm the markets by saying there is still a ceasefire, \u201cbut he simply doesn\u2019t want to say we\u2019ve gone back to war.\u201d<\/p>\n

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