Sullivan: Hezbollah threat to north must be removed, but US wants diplomatic solution

Damage caused by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Kibbutz Baram along the northern border on December 12, 2023. (Courtesy)
Damage caused by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Kibbutz Baram along the northern border on December 12, 2023. (Courtesy)

On Israel’s warnings of a potential larger conflict with Hezbollah in the north if the terror group does not remove its forces from the border, Sullivan tells reporters that “the citizens of Israel who have been evacuated from the north have to be able to return to their homes and have to be able to do so with a true sense of security.

“And that means dealing with the threat that comes from the other side of the border.”

However, he says, Washington still believes “that threat can be dealt with through diplomacy and does not require the launching of a new war.”

But it also requires “deterrence as well, because we need to send a clear message that we will not tolerate the kinds of threats and terrorist activity that we have seen from Hezbollah and from the territory of Lebanon.”

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