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White House says Lebanon travel alert, Middle East deployments aimed at defense
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWASHINGTON — The United States is telling its citizens to leave Lebanon and is deploying more military might in the Middle East as preventative and defensive measures, Jonathan Finer, White House National Security Council deputy adviser, says.
“Our goal is de-escalation, our goal is deterrence, our goal is defense of Israel,” Finer says in an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Regional tensions have soared following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas terror group’s top leader, in Tehran on Wednesday, a day after an Israeli strike in Beirut killed Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander from the Hezbollah terror group, which like Hamas is backed by Iran.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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