Report: Israeli officials say no war on Lebanon in meetings with envoys
A senior Arab official has told Lebanese officials that all the Israeli reports about an escalation or broad war on Lebanon are fabricated and baseless.
According to al-Joumhouria newspaper, the Arab official said the Israeli officials’ public statements against Lebanon are not being reflected in closed-door meetings they are holding with international envoys, in which they are stressing that “there will be no broad war on the northern front.”
“Accordingly, Lebanon is not the target of an imminent Israeli war, and the target is Iran and the major threat it represents to Israel, in addition to the Houthis in Yemen. This is the only matter that is alarming Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, and the priority for them is securing the circumstances, capabilities and all factors that they believe would enable them to strike these two targets and end their threat to Israel,” the Arab official added.
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