Lebanon told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that it was caught in a war “it did not choose” between Israel and Hezbollah, as Beirut pressed for a truce and signaled readiness for negotiations with Israel under international auspices.
Lebanon’s UN Ambassador Ahmad Arafa said the government would not accept “a return to the past” and was moving ahead with decisions to assert state control in the south.
But Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, said on Wednesday that Beirut needed to take direct action.
“If Hezbollah is being dismantled, where is the evidence? Where are the operations against their launch sites? Where are the seizures of their weapons? Where is your military?” Danon said.
He added that Lebanon faced a pivotal choice: whether the state or Hezbollah would control the country.
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