Further escalation of the conflict between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah will only make it harder to return evacuated due to civilian fire to the border areas of both states," said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an interview Thursday evening with Israeli Minister of strategical Affairs Ron Dermer.
Israel launched massive raids on Monday for Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. More than 700 people have died and respective 1000 have been injured. The Lebanese Ministry of wellness reports that there are dozens of women and children among the victims. The Israeli Army reported that thousands of Hezbollah targets were destroyed.
An organization supported by Iran since the outbreak of the Gaza War a year ago regularly shoots the north of Israel, which faces strong counterattacks. Israel declares that its nonsubjective is to warrant safety in the north of the country so that about 60,000 civilians evacuated due to attacks can return there. Even before the current escalation from northern Lebanon, about 100,000 civilians escaped due to fire. Currently, the number of interior refugees in Lebanon is estimated at about half a million.
On Wednesday night, on Thursday, the US, France and their allies made a proposal for a three-week ceasefire to be utilized to agree on a permanent truce in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli-Lebanese border. It was besides 1 of Blinken's conversations with Dermer.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu said on Friday that the Israeli delegation spoke to the American side about the proposal and dialog on this substance would continue.
On Thursday Netanjahu declared that Israel would attack Hezbollah with full force until safety was restored in the north of the state to let the evacuations to return home. His office, on the another hand, said that the Prime Minister had not yet addressed the American-French proposal.
The abroad minister Israel Kac wrote in social media that "there will be no ceasefire in the north" and the fight against Hezbollah will proceed until the triumph and full safety of the northern areas of Israel.
A spokesperson for the U.S. National safety Council John Kirby confirmed earlier media reports on Thursday that Netanjah was informed of the initiative and made it clear that it would be accepted.
The diary “Haarec” wrote that the Prime Minister had changed his head under the influence of criticism, with which the ceasefire plan met among his far-right coalitions.
According to the Western diplomat quoted by the Times of Israel Netanyahu portal in a private conversation, he agreed to an American plan, after which he publically distanced himself from it. It is his tactics known from erstwhile negotiations on the truce in Gaza: he agrees privately, and then publically withdraws from it – added the origin of the portal.
American and French diplomacy inactive believes that it is possible to scope an agreement, even after the public distance of Netanyahu from this proposal," wrote the Times of Israel on Friday behind the sources.
Netanyahu will give a speech in fresh York on Friday during a session of the UN General Assembly.
Source: PAP, Jerzy Adamiak
Six UN workers were killed in a judaic attack on the Gaza Strip. Israel's army bombed a exile shelter
