UK’s Lammy says Israel must avoid getting ‘bogged down’ in Lebanon

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UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said that nobody wants a return to the past with Israel fighting in southern Lebanon over a long period, adding the price of a regional Middle Eastern war would be “huge”, Al Jazeera reports.

“None of us want to return to the years in which Israel found itself bogged down in a quagmire in southern Lebanon,” Lammy told broadcasters.

“None of us want to see a regional war. The price would be huge for the Middle East and it would have a significant effect on the global economy.”

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