A senior US official warned Israeli officials that continuing the Israeli-Hezbollah confrontation could lead to a “wide-scale Iranian attack,” Israeli media claimed, Anadolu Agency reports.
US President Joe Biden’s senior adviser Amos Hochstein told Israeli officials that a wide-scale Iranian attack on Israel would be difficult for Israeli defenses to intercept, Haaretz daily claimed in its report.
Hochstein’s visit to Israel and Lebanon came amid the Hezbollah group’s suspension of attacks against Israel on the occasion of Eidul Azha.
The newspaper quoted Hochstein as saying that he hopes to use the pause in fire exchanges between the two parties to establish a framework agreement for a ceasefire in the future.
The US advisor expressed hope that the Israeli army’s incursion into Rafah would be completed in two or three weeks, reducing the intensity of the conflict between Hezbollah and the Israeli army.