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), as efforts got underway to hold fresh talks over a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza.
Men walk on the rubble at a site damaged in the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, Lebanon, Oct 24, 2024.DOHA/BEIRUT/PARIS — The United States does not want a protracted Israeli campaign in Lebanon, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday , as efforts got underway to hold fresh talks over a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza.
Israel said its Mossad intelligence agency head David Barnea will travel to Doha on Sunday to try to restart talks, and meet with CIA director William Burns and Qatar's prime minister. Israel unleashed its Lebanon offencive with the declared aim of securing the return of tens of thousands of people evacuated from homes in northern Israel during a year of cross-border hostilities with Hezbollah.
Blinken said Israel should take steps to avoid civilian casualties and not endanger UN peacekeepers or Lebanese army troops. Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said a ceasefire was in Israel's hands. "The storm we are currently witnessing...carries the seeds of total destruction, not only for our country, but for all human values," he said.
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