DOHA/BEIRUT/PARIS: The United States does not want a protracted Israeli campaign in Lebanon, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday (Oct 24), a month into Israel's military onslaught against the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah.
A view shows buildings damaged in yesterday's Israeli airstrikes, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon October 24, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed AzakirDOHA/BEIRUT/PARIS: The United States does not want a protracted Israeli campaign in Lebanon , US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday , a month into Israel's military onslaught against the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah .
Israel unleashed its Lebanon offensive with the declared aim of securing the return home of tens of thousands of people evacuated from homes in northern Israel during a year of cross-border hostilities with Hezbollah.Israel has used air strikes to pound southern Lebanon, Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley, and sent ground forces into areas near the border.
The Lebanese army's deployment into the south, where Hezbollah holds sway, is seen as vital to any diplomatic resolution to the war. In northern Israel, air raid sirens sounded in Nahariya and explosions could be heard as air defences fired to intercept rockets. Footage showed damage to a car, part of a projectile on the roadside, and a hole in the road where it struck.
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