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Israeli
strikes came just hours after US voiced opposition to scope of attacks on
Beirut
The Israeli
strikes came just hours after the US said it opposed the scope of Israeli
attacks in the Lebanese capital amid a rising death toll and fears of wider
regional escalation, Reuters reports.
On Tuesday,
state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said the US had expressed its
concerns to Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration on the recent strikes.
“When it
comes to the scope and nature of the bombing campaign that we saw in Beirut
over the past few weeks, it’s something that we made clear to the government of
Israel we had concerns with and we were opposed to,” he told reporters,
adopting a harsher tone than Washington has taken so far.
Lebanon’s
caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati had said on Tuesday his contacts with US
officials had produced a “kind of guarantee” that Israel would tamp down
strikes on Beirut and its southern suburbs.
The last
time Beirut was hit was on 10 October, when two strikes near the city centre
killed 22 people and brought down entire buildings in a densely populated
neighbourhood. Lebanese security sources said at the time that Hezbollah
official Wafiq Safa was the target but that he had survived. There was no
comment from Israel.
Israeli
military evacuation alerts were also affecting more than a quarter of Lebanon,
according to the UN refugee agency, two weeks after Israel began incursions
into the south of the country that it says are aimed at pushing back Hezbollah.
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