Israel strikes south Lebanon after holding off Beirut attack

By Maya Gebeily and Steven Scheer

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, June 2 (Reuters) – Israel kept up strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday, pressing its campaign against Hezbollah a day after U.S. President Donald Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Beirut, averting further escalation in the three-month-old war.

Following Trump’s intervention, Lebanon’s government said Israel would refrain from carrying out threatened strikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, while the group would halt attacks against Israel.

المصدر: Al-Monitor