Oct 21, 2023, 11:15 AM

Biden advises Tel Aviv to avoid widening war with Hezbollah

Biden advises Tel Aviv to avoid widening war with Hezbollah

TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) – US President Biden has been urging Israeli leaders against carrying out any major strike against Lebanese Hezbollah that could draw it into the Zionist regime-Hamas war, American and Israeli officials say.

According to the New York Times, US officials are concerned that some of the more hawkish members of Israel’s war cabinet have wanted to take on Hezbollah even as the Zionist regime began a long conflict against Hamas in recent days.

The Americans are conveying to the Israelis the difficulties of battling both Hamas in the south and a much more powerful Hezbollah force in the north.

The effort by top American officials to head off Israeli attacks on Hezbollah, reveals anxieties by the Biden administration over the war planning of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides.

The American officials met with Netanyahu and his war cabinet, almost unheard of in the Zionist regime’s history. They avoided using blunt language to warn the Israelis away from provocative military actions because they understood the vulnerability felt by Israeli officials after the Oct. 7 attacks. But both President Biden and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made their concerns clear, said US and Israeli officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about diplomatic discussions during wartime.

On October 7, Hamas launched a surprise operation, dubbed Al-Aqsa Storm, outside Gaza after Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent days and a record number of Palestinians were killed by the Zionist regime in recent months.

The Zionist regime responded by pounding the besieged Gaza Strip after formally declaring war against the Palestinian Hamas group.

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