WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues David Satterfield said on Thursday there was no indication that Iran or its proxies in the region intend to precipitate a conflict beyond Israel’s war with Hamas.
But it is essential that Iran and Hezbollah do not undertake provocative actions, and exchanges with Hezbollah along Israel’s border with Lebanon raise the potential for miscalculation, he said.
“We do not believe that a conflict involving Lebanon and Israel is in any way inevitable,” Satterfield said in an online briefing with reporters. “The here and now reality is there is no indication on any side that there is an intent to precipitate a conflict or a war.”
(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk; writing by Simon Lewis; editing by Chris Reese)
