WASHINGTON: The White House on Wednesday (Sep 18) warned all sides against escalation in the Middle East after two days of blasts in Lebanon, widely attributed to Israel, on
Mourners carry the coffin of Mohammed Mahdi, son of Hezbollah legislator Ali Ammar, who was killed Tuesday after his handheld pager exploded, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon , Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024. "We still don't want to see an escalation of any kind. We don't believe that the way to solve where we're at in this crisis is by additional military operations at all," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
Iran, which supports Hezbollah, had held back from major retaliation after an attack inside Tehran that killed the visiting political leader of Hamas. Asked if Israel was adhering to international humanitarian law in the blasts on pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon, Kirby replied:"As we have said from the very beginning, Israel has a right to defend itself."
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