Lebanon’s caretaker PM: ‘We have no option but the diplomatic option’

This handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's press office shows Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati delivering a statement to the press in Beirut on September 29, 2024. (Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP)
This handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's press office shows Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati delivering a statement to the press in Beirut on September 29, 2024. (Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP)

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati says in a televised speech that his country had “no option but the diplomatic option,” in response to a question about diplomatic efforts to end fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group.

He also says the intensified fighting may have forced up to a million people to flee parts of Lebanon in possibly the worst displacement crisis in the country’s history.

Mikati tells reporters that “the estimated number is very high and may reach one million” — which would amount to roughly a sixth of Lebanon’s population.

“It is the largest displacement movement that may have happened… in Lebanon,” he says.

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