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Lebanese envoy warns of ‘doomsday’ Israel-Lebanon war
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Lebanon’s Ambassador to the UK has warned that an Israeli ground incursion will lead to a “doomsday” regional war.
Rami Mortada tells The Times that Lebanon’s armed forces, which have stood by as Hezbollah has attacked Israel for 11 months, will not do so if Israel launches a major assault on the ground or from the air.
“We are facing all the risks of an all-out regional conflict and that’s what we have been tirelessly trying to avoid,” he says, calling the terror group a “formidable fighting force” and warning Jerusalem to learn from “humiliating” defeats of the past.
A war would “definitely [be] a doomsday for Lebanon but Lebanon will not hurt alone in this war. That’s what recent history taught us. So all efforts should be focused on avoiding such an outcome.”
The Times of Israel Community.