FM Cohen again warns that Hezbollah’s daily attacks could lead to all-out war in Lebanon

For the second day running, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen warns that ongoing attacks by the Hezbollah terrorist group against Israel could lead to all-out war in Lebanon.

“The attacks by Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy, could lead to war in Lebanon,” Cohen says in a briefing to the media.

“Israel has no interest in opening another front but we cannot continue to tolerate such attacks. The responsibility of the international community is to fully implement Resolution 1701 in order to prevent a war in Lebanon,” he continues.

UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brought an end to the Second Lebanon War in 2006, called for the disarmament of all Lebanese militias — a reference to Hezbollah — and for southern Lebanon to be freed of all paramilitary groups, but was never implemented.

On Tuesday, Cohen wrote to the UN Security Council warning that a regional war could break out due to Hezbollah’s repeated attacks on Israeli civilians and the IDF, and called on the body to implement Resolution 1701 to avoid such a scenario.