Trump on Israeli military action in Lebanon: ‘You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody’ –Trump asserts “too many people are being killed” | 16 June 2026 | President Donald Trump said Tuesday during a meeting with the reigning Emir of Qatar that Syria should “take care” of Hezbollah. “Israel’s fighting Hezbollah for too long, and too many people are being killed,” Trump said during the meeting. “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, that I can tell you.” Trump said that he made the suggestion to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah, because they’d do a “better job of doing it.” During the meeting, Trump was also asked about his relationship with Netanyahu. “I didn’t like that he did an attack [over] a very minor little thing with some drones,” Trump said, according to The Jerusalem Post.