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Donald Trump had urged Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop blowing up buildings" during a phone call about Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper cited sources who overheard the phone conversation between the two leaders, whose relationship has grown increasingly hostile as the war raged on.