US diplomats in Israel found their mobile phones buzzing with alerts on Friday night warning about a major escalation in Lebanon.
The alerts came as a result of Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut’s densely packed southern suburbs of Dahiyeh.
On Saturday, Hezbollah, a group which was born out of Israel’s occupation of south Lebanon between 1982 and 2000, confirmed that it’s long-serving leader of 32 years had been killed.
The attack caught three US officials in the region and Washington DC who spoke to MEE by suprise, raising the spectre that Israel, the US’s closest Middle East ally, had brough Washington to the brink of a new regional war. ….more
