Defence Minister’s remarks came as the White House Special envoy visited Israel to discuss the crisis on the northern border where Israeli troops have been exchanging missile fire with Hezbollah
Smoke billows from the site of an Israel i air strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Houla on Sept. 16. Israel i Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday that the window was closing for a diplomatic solution to the standoff with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon .
As long as Hezbollah continued to tie itself to the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been engaged for almost a year, “the trajectory is clear,” he said. While the war in Gaza has been Israel’s main focus since the attack by Hamas-led gunmen on Oct. 7 last year, the precarious situation in the north has fuelled fears of a regional conflict that could drag in the United States and Iran.
“We need a decision in the north and Gallant is not the right person to lead it,” he said in a statement on the social media platform X.
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