Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters on Monday evening warned the Israeli regime to halt repeated ceasefire violations in southern Lebanon or face a “harsh response” from Iran’s armed forces.

In a statement, the headquarters said the “terrorist army of the Zionist regime” had violated the ceasefire 84 times over the past two days, despite the US president’s announcement declaring an end to the war.

It noted that the occupation regime has been continuing “crimes and the killing of the oppressed people of Lebanon,” even after the ceasefire was meant to take effect.

“If the child-killing army of the Zionist regime does not end its evil acts in southern Lebanon, it must await a harsh response from the powerful armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” it said.

Trump said on Tuesday that he had a “great relationship” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but added the Israeli leader “has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon”.

Trump told reporters “You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody because there’s a lot of people in those apartment houses – and they’re not all Hezbollah,” he said.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said that the number of projectiles being fired between the Israeli military and Lebanon fell sharply to 174 on Sunday, compared with 705 on the previous Sunday.

“Of yesterday’s total, 169 were attributed to the [Israeli military], and five to Hezbollah,” Dujarric said.