A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that the Iran-backed group would not stop targeting northern Israel, after Israeli threats on Monday to bomb Beirut’s southern suburbs if the militants kept up attacks.
Hezbollah “has not committed to stop attacking” northern Israel, the source said, requesting anonymity and adding: “Why stop these attacks that hurt Israel while it is bombarding Lebanon?”
Earlier on Monday, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that “if there is no calm in the north, there will be no calm in Beirut”, while a senior US official told AFP on Sunday that Washington had “proposed a clear sequence: Hezbollah must stop all attacks on Israel. In return, Israel would refrain from escalation in Beirut.”
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