Two senior Hamas officials in Gaza said the group was prepared to relinquish some automatic rifles and other arms, a concession that falls short of Israeli-U.S. demands.
Analysts said energy and shipping companies would be reluctant to fully restore operations until they were confident that hostilities were over.
On a day when both Iran and the United States declared the Strait of Hormuz opened, hopes for an agreement rose. But statements from President Trump and Iranian leaders about negotiations were sometimes at odds.
Lebanese people who had been displaced by fighting expressed a mix of excitement and uncertainty about a pause in Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah.
Residents are wary that the truce may offer only a temporary reprieve after weeks of rocket fire by Hezbollah.
The country’s leadership secured a truce through risky talks with Israel, but the government now finds itself caught between competing pressures.
The pause in the fighting between Israeli forces and Iranian-allied Hezbollah militants may help smooth the way to a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran.
Israeli and Lebanese officials this week met in Washington for direct talks between two nations, which have technically been at war since 1948.
President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his narrative of a “pretty reasonable” new regime in Iran and all-but-assured victory for the United States.
A meeting between Israeli and Lebanese officials in Washington came as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports entered its second day.