Diplomatic efforts to prevent escalation in Middle East as Hezbollah launches new rocket attack on Israel

The Middle East looks like a boiling cauldron. Calls to foreign nationals to leave Lebanon multiplied yesterday Sunday, 4/8 due to fears that there will be a military escalation between Iran and its allies on the one hand and Israel on the other, which the international community emphasizes is making efforts to to be avoided. Anticipating retaliation by Iran and its allies for the killings of the leader of Hamas in Tehran and a top official in Lebanon’s Hezbollah military arm, diplomatic efforts are intensifying. French President Emmanuel Macron and Jordanian King Abdullah II called yesterday to avoid escalation “at all costs”. The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported Sunday night into Monday that “a strike by the Israeli enemy” killed two people in Houla, in the southern part of the country. Earlier, the Israeli army announced that it “spotted a Hezbollah terrorist entering a military structure” in this area and “hit him”. Hezbollah announced the death of two […]
Source: News Beast

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