MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Israel, in connection with the attack on Golan Heights, has declared that the only way to prevent a potential war with Lebanon is for the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah to withdraw its forces, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein said on Sunday.
«The only way that the world can prevent a full scale war which would be devastating also to Lebanon is by forcing Hezbollah to implement Security Council Resolution 1701. Now is the very last minute to do so diplomatically,» Marmorstein said on X.
Golan Heights incident is escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah
Blame for Saturday’s rocket attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which reportedly killed 12 and injured 30, was pinned by Tel Aviv on Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement, exacerbating ongoing… pic.twitter.com/PXv86AwLP9
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Until 1967, the Golan Heights were part of the Syrian province of Quneitra, inhabited mainly by the Druze Arab ethnoreligious group. Two-thirds of the strategic territory were captured by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967 and the fourth Arab-Israeli War in 1973. Tel Aviv unilaterally declared sovereignty over the region in 1981 but the UN Security Council rejects the claim, considering the Golan Heights to be occupied Syrian territory.
