September 24, 2024 17:32 GMT
SECURITY: We Are Not Eager To Start Ground Invasion, Israeli Diplomat At UN
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Reuters reporting that Israel's U.N. Ambassador, Danny Danon, has told reporters in New York City that Israel is open to ideas for de-escalating the conflict in Lebanon.
- Danon said: "As we speak there are important forces trying to come up with ideas and we are open-minded for that. We are not eager to start any ground invasion anywhere ... We prefer a diplomatic solution."
- The New York Times reports: "Hezbollah claimed to have directly targeted at least five civilian communities in northern Israel on Tuesday. It was an unusually high number and followed pledges earlier this year by Hezbollah’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, to attack new Israeli towns and cities if Lebanese civilians continued to be killed."
- Barack Ravid at Axios reports: "Hezbollah has asked Iran in recent days to carry out an attack against Israel, but the Iranians have so far expressed reservations about such a move, two senior Israeli officials and a Western diplomat told me."
- Emily Tripp at conflict monitor Airwars notes that this week's aerial bombardment of Southern Lebanon has seen a significantly higher intensity of strikes than the first three days of the Gaza war last year, with over 1,600 targets hit on Monday alone: “Prior to the Gaza war, munitions deployed with this intensity and with this frequency would have been almost unheard-of. There is no comparison in terms of death toll or munitions use with previous 21st-century air campaigns of this nature, as far as we know.”
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