Lebanese President Joseph Aoun makes a rare public appeal to the Israeli government and people in an interview with CNN, saying a military solution “will never provide you with security and safety” for the people in northern Israel.
“We are ready, we are willing, we are committed. Are you? If you are, let’s sit and talk,” says Aoun.
“We are fed up and we want to live in peace,” he says, adding that the Lebanese people “deserve to live in peace and in dignity, they deserve not seeing their homes being destroyed every five to 10 years.”
Regarding Israel’s military operations, Aoun says: “They can invade the whole country, they can flatten the whole country, but they will never be able to achieve their objective.”
He says he will not meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before reaching an agreement to end the war, which he says would be a non-aggression pact and not a full peace deal.
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