US Cautions Against Escalating Tensions Between Israel, Hezbollah

A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit on February 27, 2024. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit on February 27, 2024. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
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US Cautions Against Escalating Tensions Between Israel, Hezbollah

A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit on February 27, 2024. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit on February 27, 2024. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)

The United States does not want to see tensions rise further between Israel and Hezbollah, the US State Department said on Tuesday.

It said Israel has assured Washington it wants a diplomatic solution to the issue.

Hezbollah said it had launched a volley of rockets at an Israeli aerial surveillance base earlier on Tuesday in response to the Israeli military's deepest attack yet into Lebanese territory, with no immediate reports of casualties from the rockets.

The army said it detected a total of 20 launches from Lebanon on Tuesday. It said some were intercepted by air defense systems while others landed in open areas.



Sisi, King Abdullah Agree that Gaza Should Be Rebuilt Without Displacing Palestinians

Palestinians travel from the southern Gaza Strip towards the north following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Netzarim Corridor, central Gaza Strip, 12 February 2025. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER
Palestinians travel from the southern Gaza Strip towards the north following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Netzarim Corridor, central Gaza Strip, 12 February 2025. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER
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Sisi, King Abdullah Agree that Gaza Should Be Rebuilt Without Displacing Palestinians

Palestinians travel from the southern Gaza Strip towards the north following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Netzarim Corridor, central Gaza Strip, 12 February 2025. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER
Palestinians travel from the southern Gaza Strip towards the north following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Netzarim Corridor, central Gaza Strip, 12 February 2025. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah II said that Gaza should be rebuilt without displacing Palestinians, Egypt's presidency said in a statement reporting a phone call between the two on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump has continued to push for a plan to resettle the Palestinian population to both Egypt and Jordan, a proposal both countries have rejected repeatedly.

King Abdullah rejected any mass displacement of Palestinians after meeting with Trump on Tuesday.

During the meeting at the White House, Abdullah volunteered to accept up to 2,000 children from Gaza who have cancer or otherwise require medical treatment.
But in a post on X after the meeting, he “reiterated Jordan’s steadfast position against the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank," adding that it was a "unified Arab position.”

The Palestinians also reject Trump's plan, which they view as an attempt to forcibly displace them from part of their homeland.