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Israel says time running out to reach diplomatic solution in Lebanon
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Security sources said the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired the most rockets and weaponised drones on Wednesday that it had in a single day since the recent series of daily clashes across the border began.
A report from Israel’s Kan radio on Thursday, after a particularly intense rocket salvo hit the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, quoted a government source as saying that the parties were “approaching the point when the chance of reaching an agreement that might guarantee that Hezbollah was distanced from the border would be exhausted … The sand in the diplomatic hourglass in Lebanon is running out.”
“The stopwatch for a diplomatic solution is running out; if the world and the Lebanese government don’t act in order to prevent the firing on Israel’s northern residents, and to distance Hezbollah from the border, the IDF will do it,” he said at a press conference.
Militias allied with Tehran across the Middle East have launched drones and missiles towards Israel, disrupted international shipping in the Red Sea and attacked US military assets in the region in the wake of 7 October.
Israel has not fought a two-front war since a surprise attack on Yom Kippur by Syria from the north and Egypt from the south 50 years ago, but public statements from Israeli officials are growing more bullish.
But the conviction that a new war in Lebanon is inevitable appears to have taken hold among Israeli politicians, generals and a widening slice of the public: an opinion poll carried out in late November found that 52% of those surveyed favoured an immediate strike against Hezbollah, and only 35% were opposed to opening another front in the north.
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