Tuesday morning began with widespread confusion over when the ceasefire deal, first announced by US President Donald Trump the night prior, would take effect.
The Israeli defence minister accused Iran of breaking the ceasefire deal and announced that the military would retaliate, shortly after Iran fired two missiles into Israel— apparently violating the fragile ceasefire that had taken hold just hours earlier.
Israel's government announced it had agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday morning, hours after trading a barrage of overnight strikes with Iran.
Iranian state media later announced that a ceasefire was indeed in effect, with Trump delcaring the ceasefire had "taken effect" shortly after 7am CET.
Strikes killed nine in Iran and five in Israel in the early hours of Tuesday, after the ceasefire agreement was announced but had not yet taken hold.
When an Israeli retaliation appeared under way Trump reacted furiously, accusing both sides of losing sight of their aims, after which the fragile ceasefire appeared to hold.
Read Euronews reporters in the region and across Europe, as they brought updates on the dramatic twelfth day of conflict in the Middle East.
