CAIRO (Reuters) – European Union international coverage chief Josep Borrell sounded the alarm on Saturday about Lebanon being dragged right into a regional battle in a spillover from Israel’s warfare with Hamas.
Borrell, talking throughout a go to to Lebanon, mentioned it was crucial to keep away from a regional escalation within the Center East, and warned Israel that “no one will win from a regional battle”.
He was commenting at a brand new convention with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati following talks with prime authorities officers to debate occasions in and round Gaza, together with the influence of the warfare and the scenario on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
“We’re seeing a worrying intensification of change of fireside throughout the Blue Line,” Borrell mentioned. The present demarcation line between the 2 international locations is called the Blue Line, a frontier mapped by the United Nations that marks the road to which Israeli forces withdrew after they left south Lebanon in 2000.
(Reporting by Maya Gebeily; Writing by Adam Makary; Enhancing by Frances Kerry)
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