Prime Minister Tammam Salam has received assurances that the latest wave of violence along the Lebanon-Israel border won’t lead to war, sources close to the premier said Thursday.
The sources told The Daily Star the assurances came after Salam carried out urgent calls to Lebanon’s allies in the West and the Middle East.
They said Salam has also received assurances from local officials that Hezbollah’s eye-for-an-eye attack would not lead to war with Israel.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven wounded Wednesday when Hezbollah fired a salvo of anti-tank missiles at an Israeli military convoy in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms in south Lebanon.
The attack was in revenge for the killing of six Hezbollah members and an Iranian general in a Jan. 18 Israeli airstrike in Qunaitra in Syria’s Golan Heights.
