The United States expressed its full support for Israel’s military operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday (9), leaving aside the proposal it presented two weeks ago with France for a 21-day truce that would lead to a diplomatic solution. .
“The situation on the ground has changed from what it was two weeks ago,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a news conference.
Miller assured that Israel has “the right to carry out limited incursions” into Lebanon to “degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities, destroy its infrastructure and inflict losses among its ranks.”
For Joe Biden’s government, the solution to the conflict involves ensuring that the terrorist group fully complies with resolution 1,701, approved by the United Nations Security Council to end the war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006.
This resolution, which was never fully implemented, stipulated the end of hostilities on the common border, the deployment of the Lebanese Army in the south of the country and the disarmament of parastate militias such as Hezbollah.
“Ultimately, we want to reach a ceasefire and a diplomatic resolution in which Hezbollah finally, after 18 years, fully complies with the Security Council resolution,” Miller said.
However, the United States no longer insists on the proposal it launched with France two weeks ago, during the UN General Assembly, for a 21-day ceasefire to reach a diplomatic solution to the conflict, which was rejected by the Prime Minister. Israeli minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hezbollah resumed firing rockets at Israel from Lebanese soil on October 7 last year, in response to the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past two weeks, Israeli forces have intensified their attacks in southern Lebanon, where, on September 27, they killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
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