Blinken shares 'deep concern' about Lebanon-Israel border tension in meeting with Mikati

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, expressed his "deep concern" about Lebanon-Israel border tension during his meeting with Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Amman. Iran backed terror group Hezbollah and Israeli soldiers have been exchanging intense cross-fire along Lebanon's sourn border with Israel since latter launched a ground incursion against Palestinian terror group Hamas.

During meeting with Lebanon's Mikati, Blinken "thanked him for his leership in preventing Lebanon from being pulled into a war that Lebanese people do not want." Blinken also hailed Lebanon's efforts with regional partners "to pursue durable and sustainable peace in region,” State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said in a statement.

“ Secretary discussed US efforts to secure humanitarian assistance for civilians in Gaza and noted that Lebanon needs to select a President to le country through both regional and domestic crises," latter ded.

Hezbollah chief warns of wider conflict in Middle East

Iran backed terror faction, Hezbollah’s Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah earlier yesterday me first-ever fiery speech in Lebanon since Israel-Hamas war started on October 7. dressing residents in sourn Beirut via video link from an undisclosed location, terror group's chief falsely claimed that Israeli civilians during  October 7 rampage were killed by Israeli forces and not Palestinian terror faction Hamas.

While threatening that war against Hamas by IDF will spill into a wider conflict in Middle East, Hezbollah’s Secretary General termed Israel “as fragile as a spider web,” and justified strikes on US troops in region, ding that his armed men will rigorously increase strike on Americans. “Israel falsely claimed Hamas beheed babies, but failed to produce any evidence — despite providing gruesome visual evidence that y did — whereas whole world has seen images of Palestinian children bombed in Gaza,” he said.

Iran funded terrorist organization Hezbollah has been waging a battle on second front with Israeli forces . Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant warned that Lebanon entering in a direct war with Israel would result in Lebanon returning “to stone age.” “Do not make a mistake. We do not want a war. But we are prepared to protect our civilians, our soldiers and our sovereignty,” Gallant said in a video statement.

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Mikati, said that time is of essence in order to prevent Hamas-Israel war from “going out of control” and spilling in neighbouring Lebanon as well as wider region. He reiterated that he is “doing my duty to prevent Lebanon from entering war” and hostilities from furr expanding into South. “Lebanon is in eye of storm,” he said, reportedly. Mikati emphasised that he “cannot rule out an escalation because re is a race to reach a ceasefire before escalation spres in entire region.”