US accuses Hezbollah of trying to derail Lebanon-Israel peace efforts
US State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott accused Hezbollah of attempting to “derail” peace efforts between Lebanon and Israel as renewed Israeli strikes and cross-border attacks cast doubt on a US-brokered ceasefire.
He claimed Hezbollah was seeking to undermine those efforts “both by launching attacks within Israel but also threats within Lebanon.”
“No one is downplaying the challenges ahead of us here. No one is saying this is going to be easy,” Pigott told Al Jazeera.
“But what the US is focused on is creating the conditions for good-faith conversations” between the Lebanese and Israeli governments, he said.
