2023-12-16 12:03:31
[#United States Condemns Israel’s Attack on Lebanon#]According to a report by CNN on December 15, the Israeli army has repeatedly attacked the US-backed Lebanese Army in the past two months, which triggered the Biden administration’s The warning drew “sharp criticism” of Israel’s leadership from senior U.S. officials. The United States has condemned more than 30 Israeli attacks on the Lebanese army and is concerned about the expansion of the conflict in Gaza.
Israel has attacked Lebanese Armed Forces positions more than 34 times since Oct. 7, including using small arms, artillery, and drones, according to U.S. officials, regional security sources, and a list of incidents compiled by the U.S. and reviewed by CNN. and helicopters. Officials revealed that the Biden administration has told Israel that the attack is unacceptable.
A senior U.S. official said the United States believed at least some of the attacks were accidental and were intended to target the powerful Lebanese Hezbollah group, which also operates along the Lebanese-Israeli border and continues to attack Israeli military positions.
But the official said the intent of other attacks was less clear and that lower-level Israeli forces may not have exercised enough restraint.
CNN stated that the scale of these attacks has not been reported before, but the severity of the incidents has frustrated U.S. officials. Because the United States believes that any final diplomatic solution between Israel and Lebanon will inevitably involve the participation of the Lebanese Armed Forces. The Lebanese army is not as powerful as Hezbollah, but U.S. support for the Lebanese armed forces gives Washington a partner in the region. In addition, the United States is also deeply concerned that the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza may expand to the north, and U.S. officials have been working with Israel and Lebanon to try to contain the war.
A spokesman for the White House National Security Council said, “The United States has made clear that we do not want to see this conflict spill over into Lebanon, and we continue to urge Israel to do all it can to be targeted and avoid attacks on civilians, civilian infrastructure, civilian Farmland, the United Nations and the Lebanese Armed Forces.”
He also said, “The United States is proud of its partnership with the Lebanese Armed Forces. They are critical to the stability and security of Lebanon and the entire region.”
An IDF spokesperson told CNN on the 15th that any harm caused to “other troops” was “unintentional.”
“In response to provocations by Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces struck the terrorist organization’s military infrastructure and worked to eliminate any threat to Israel,” he said. “Any harm to civilians and other forces was unintentional. This Incidents like these are being reviewed with the aim of improving operational precautions and ensuring accountability where necessary.”
U.S. officials believe that since October 7, Israeli attacks on the Lebanese army have injured at least eight people and killed one. According to a report by The Times of Israel last week, the Israel Defense Forces’ attack on Hezbollah on the 5th killed one Lebanese soldier and injured three others. In response, the Israel Defense Forces issued a “rare apology” on social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
At the same time, since the current round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israel has been accused of using white phosphorus bombs to attack the border areas of Gaza and Lebanon many times, but has refused to admit it. On December 11, after investigation by the US media “Washington Post” and a number of international organizations, it was discovered that the Israeli army attacked many places on the Lebanese side of the temporary border between Lebanon and Israel on October 16. Artillery fragments at the scene showed that the Israeli army used regular weapons. It’s a white phosphorus bomb made in the United States. The White House responded that it was “concerned.”
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