UN peacekeepers in touch with both Israel and Lebanon in bid to prevent war

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

A man inspects a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A man inspects a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The heads of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon and UN Special Coordinator Jeanine Hannis-Plasschaert are talking to both Lebanon and Israel in an attempt to prevent the outbreak of war, says UN Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric, shortly before the IDF carried out an airstrike on a senior Hezbollah official in the heart of southern Beirut.

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