Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a visiting US envoy on Monday that a “fundamental change” was needed after nearly a year of cross-border exchanges with Hezbollah in Lebanon, AFP reports.

Netanyahu told US envoy Amos Hochstein that displaced residents of the border area would not be able to return home “without a fundamental change in the security situation in the north”, and that Israel “will do what is necessary to ensure its security”, the prime minister’s office said in a statement.