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Israel and Hezbollah are principally at warfare, the European Union’s overseas coverage chief mentioned.
“This scenario is extraordinarily harmful and worrying. I can say that we’re virtually in a full-fledged warfare,” Josep Borrell mentioned late Monday after an off-the-cuff assembly of EU overseas ministers forward of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “If this isn’t a warfare scenario, I don’t know what you’d name it.”
Israeli forces carried out a whole lot of airstrikes Monday in a serious escalation of tensions with Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group and political party based mostly in Lebanon. Lebanese well being officers mentioned the strikes killed at the least 492 individuals, together with 35 youngsters, and displaced a whole lot.
Israel’s protection minister mentioned Monday that they may intensify their assaults in Lebanon till they obtain their targets, bringing the residents of northern Israel “again safely to their houses.”
Borrell — who has been a persistent critic of Israel because it started retaliating towards Hamas militants within the Gaza Strip — condemned the Israeli assaults, which he mentioned had been forcing civilians to pay an “unacceptable value.”
