Lebanon PM Calls For Ceasefire With Israel As Strikes Intensify

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Lebanon PM Calls For Ceasefire With Israel As Strikes Intensify


Beirut:

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday known as for a ceasefire within the combating between Israel and Hezbollah throughout a gathering with French Overseas Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Beirut.

“The important thing to the answer is to place an finish to the Israeli aggression in opposition to Lebanon and to revive the enchantment launched by america and France… in favour of a ceasefire,” Mikati stated, in line with a press release from his workplace.

Barrot arrived in Beirut Sunday, the primary overseas diplomat to go to Lebanon since Israel escalated its strikes in opposition to Hezbollah strongholds.

Mikati added that the “precedence is making use of decision 1701” of the United Nations Safety Council, which ended the 2006 warfare between Israel and Hezbollah.

The French envoy’s go to got here as a lethal strike hit a constructing within the centre of the Lebanese capital.

Israeli strikes have been largely focused on Hezbollah’s strongholds within the south and east of the nation, and in south Beirut.

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