Report: Aoun's talks with US manage to rein in Israel's strikes

President Joseph Aoun held a series of phone talks with the Americans over the past hours, following the most dangerous cross-border conflagaration with Israel since the last war, a media report said.

Aoun's efforts "met responsiveness and resulted in keeping the capital Beirut and the Lebanese regions outside the scope of (Israel's) strikes," sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper in remarks published Sunday.

The Israelis however told the Americans that they will "keep targeting any Hezbollah activity in any region while sparing civilians and state institutions," the sources added.

Israel's major escalation against Lebanon on Saturday, which killed seven people and wounded 31 others, came after it intercepted three rockets fired from Lebanon at the northern Israeli settlement of Metula near Lebanon's border.