The European Union’s top diplomat has warned against the conflict between Israel and Hamas potentially spilling over into Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Speaking from Beirut alongside Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Josep Borrell said the bloc was \u00ab\u00a0seeing a worrying intensification of exchange of fire across the blue line in the border between Lebanon and Israel.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0I think that the war can be prevented. Has to be avoided. Diplomacy can prevail to look for a better solution. It is imperative to avoid a regional escalation in the Middle East,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Nobody will win from a regional conflict,\u00a0\u00bb Borrell added.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0EU foreign policy chief’s comments came as Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel from Lebanon earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Shiite militant and political group warned the barrage was an \u00ab\u00a0initial response\u00a0\u00bb to the alleged Israeli killing of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The rocket attack came a day after Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his group must retaliate for the killing of Saleh Arouri, the deputy political leader of Hamas, in a Hezbollah stronghold south of Beirut.<\/p>\n
Nasrallah said that if Hezbollah did not strike back, all of Lebanon would be vulnerable to Israeli attack.<\/p>\n
He appeared to be making his case for a response to the Lebanese public, even at the risk of escalating the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces have exchanged fire with Hezbollah on an almost daily basis since fighting began in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah said on Saturday that it had launched 62 rockets toward an Israeli air surveillance base on Mount Meron and that it scored direct hits.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said about 40 rockets were fired toward Meron and that a base was targeted – but made no mention of the base being hit.<\/p>\n
It said it struck the Hezbollah cell that fired the rockets.<\/p>\n
The war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel in which militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 240 hostages.<\/p>\n
Israel’s blistering retaliation by air, ground and sea has killed more than 22,600 Palestinians, about two-thirds of them women and children, according to Gaza’s authorities.<\/p>\n
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