Report: US warns of Israeli war on Lebanon
In parallel with the U.N. Security Council resolution that called for a Gaza ceasefire and amid the latest U.S.-Israeli disagreements, U.S. circles have warned of “very alarming Israeli intentions” and of “dangerous plans to turn a part of Lebanon into uninhabited areas as happened in the Gaza Strip," a media report said.
“Washington is dealing with these reports seriously in order to prevent an execution of the Israeli threats, after it worked over the past six months to prevent Lebanon being turned into an all-out war arena,” the sources said, according to al-Akhbar newspaper.
The U.S. “realizes that the world countries cannot tolerate a new version of what happened in Gaza, even on a smaller scale, amid international consensus on preventing the spread of war to Lebanon,” the sources added.
Noting that Israel “has abode by the U.S. red lines over the past period, except for some exceptions that were reined in,” the sources noted that Israel has also “complied with European messages for keeping the escalation with Hezbollah within the current limits.”
Hezbollah had activated Lebanon’s southern front with Israel on October 8 in solidarity with the Palestinians and the Hamas Movement following the latter’s unprecedented attack on southern Israel and the brutal war that ensued.
There have been near-daily clashes between Hezbollah and Israel ever since, resulting in the death of at least 337 people in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also 63 civilians.
Tens of thousands of people have also been displaced by the violence in Lebanon's south and Israel's north and Israel has threatened to launch a military operation against Hezbollah to push it away from the border.
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