US says it doesn’t want to see daily strikes on Beirut

State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel declines to comment on last night’s IDF strikes on branches of an association accused of financing the Hezbollah terror group but says the US still doesn’t want to see daily strikes on the Lebanese capital.

“I can’t offer an assessment from up here [on yesterday’s Israeli strikes]. Broadly though, our call continues to be that Israel needs to do everything it can to not target civilian infrastructure and abide by international humanitarian law, and in all of its operations needs to take every possible measure to minimize impacts on civilians and civilian infrastructure,” Patel says, adding that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will raise the issue with Israeli counterparts when he arrives in Israel tomorrow.