What did Aoun tell Americans after Israeli strike on Dahieh?
The latest Israeli airstrike on Dahieh prompted Lebanese officials to intensify their contacts with foreign countries with the aim of pressing Israel to halt its attacks, a media report said.
They also sought to “obtain guarantees that there will be no aggression, especially during the upcoming municipal and mayoral polls,” Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.
“President Joseph Aoun communicated with the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and held a phone call with the head of the international committee monitoring the ceasefire in the South, U.S. general Jasper Jeffers, who will come to Beirut today (Tuesday) to meet with the three presidents (Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam) to follow up on the situation,” the daily said.
Aoun stressed that “the Lebanese Army is performing the missions requested from it and there is clear foreign appreciation of its work, but the Israeli enemy is the side obstructing the continuation of its deployment and missions though its continued violations and occupation of the five points,” the newspaper added.
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