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Lebanon steps up diplomatic contacts as it awaits Israel’s response

Lebanon maintained this Monday New diplomatic contacts to try to ease tensions after Saturday’s attack that killed twelve minors in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heightsamid flight cancellations and calls from some countries to leave Lebanese territory.

“Prime Minister Najib Mikati continued his intensive diplomatic contacts following Israel’s recent threats against Lebanon.” The Lebanese government said in a statement while the country awaits the Jewish state’s promised response to the action taken two days ago.

On Saturday, a projectile killed twelve minors on a soccer field in Majdal Shams, a launch that Israel attributed to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and which caused the most casualties in Israeli territory since the start of hostilities last October.

In this context, the Lebanese Prime Minister received a British Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s callWho appealed for prevention So that it can be prevented from increasing further, which was feared for a long time before this summer.

While Mikati remains outside Lebanon on a trip that began before the attack on the Golan Heights The head of Lebanese diplomacy, Abdallah Bou Habib, Received this Monday in Beirut Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, UN Special Coordinator for the UN.

According to a statement from the Foreign Ministry, Bou Habib also stressed that “The importance of self-control to avoid a regional war that would have major implications for the entire region” and reiterated its commitment to the UN Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war, EFE reports.