An official property surveyor assesses the damage to a residential building following a direct-hit from a projectile, after Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones towards Israel in what the Iranian-backed movement said was a response to the assassination of a senior commander in Beirut last month, in northern Israel August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
The U.S. provided intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to track the hits that arrived from Lebanon's Hezbollah to Israel, according to a U.S. official.
The United States helped the Israeli military track early yesterday Lebanon's Hezbollah fired rockets and drones at Israel on Sunday morning, but did not immediately intervene, a senior US Pentagon official said (Reuters/Ammar Awad photo, top, damage to an Israeli building from Hezbollah strikes) .
The US government is concerned about the risk of generalizing the war in the Middle East
“The United States did not engage in the preemptive strikes by Israel last night. We provided intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to track the hits that came from Lebanon's Hezbollah,” the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity, adding that US help to counter those attacks “was not necessary.”< /p>
At the same time, a top US military official, Brigadier General Charles Brown, arrived in Tel Aviv a few hours after the major cross-border conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. of the US, is expected to hold meetings with senior Israeli military officials.
Insists on ceasefire
US presidential national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that Washington was continuing in Cairo the diplomatic effort to conclude a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, adding that the US government is concerned about the risk of generalizing the war in the Middle East.
During a press conference in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada ), Mr. Sullivan pointed out that the administration of President Joe Biden is in constant communication with that of Israel regarding the developments with Hezbollah, after yesterday's new escalation of hostilities between the Lebanese armed movement and the Israeli armed forces.< /p>
