US Urges Lebanon to Prevent Hezbollah Attacks on Israel

Arab World

August 7th, 5:03am

Asharq Al-Awsat

Smoke rises as seen from the village of Wazzani, near the Lebanese-Israeli border in southern Lebanon, August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

The United States on Friday urged Lebanon's government to prevent Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel. "We call upon the Lebanese government urgently to prevent such attacks and bring the area under its control," State Department spokesman Ned Price said. "We strongly encourage all efforts to maintain calm." The United States said it condemned "in the strongest terms" the volley of rockets fired by Hezbollah into Israel, which responded with its first airstrikes on its northern neighbor in seven years. The rocket attack drew a wave of criticism from Hezbollah's opponents in Lebanon, a country suffering a crippling financial crisis which the ruling elite are failing to tackle.

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