Lebanese report: Israeli response to Golan attack inevitable, efforts made to limit it

Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

An Israeli retaliatory strike in Lebanon in response to yesterday’s Hezbollah rocket attack on Majdal Shams is inevitable, according to diplomatic sources in Washington and Beirut quoted by the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International.

Efforts will be made to limit the scope of the response and avoid Israel targeting large cities with a high population density, including Beirut, so as not to drag Hezbollah into an escalation, say the diplomatic sources.

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