US Envoy: Israeli Military Solution Against Hezbollah Is Not Feasible

The U.S. Special Envoy to Syria, Tom Brrak, stated on Friday that Israel will not be able to achieve its desired goals by attempting to eliminate Hezbollah militarily.

In statements to Bloomberg, Brrak explained that eliminating one individual whom he described as a terrorist would lead to the emergence of ten others, stressing that this is not the appropriate solution, and pointed to the need to open a dialogue between Lebanon and Israel to end the current state of tension.

For his part, the commander of the U.S. Central Command, Brad Cooper, stated that disarming Hezbollah and maintaining peace in the region is in the interest of the United States and its regional partners.

The Lebanese President, Joseph Aoun, stated on Thursday that the first session of talks between his country and Israel, which was chaired by civilians, was positive, and stressed the importance of building on it to avoid a repeat of the war witnessed last year.

The Lebanese President's position coincided with Israel launching raids on towns in southern Lebanon after issuing evacuation warnings to residents, claiming to target Hezbollah facilities, and the Israeli strikes continued despite the ceasefire agreement in effect since last year.

Amid fears of a major Israeli escalation, civilian delegates from Lebanon and Israel participated on Wednesday in a meeting of the committee tasked with monitoring the ceasefire at the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon, in the first direct talks between the two sides in decades.

It is worth mentioning that Israel has committed thousands of violations of the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, which has led to the death and injury of hundreds of Lebanese, in addition to significant material losses.

The agreement was supposed to end an aggression launched by Israel against Lebanon in October 2023, which turned into a full-scale war in September 2024, resulting in the death of more than 4,000 people and the injury of more than 17,000 others.

Israel defies the agreement by continuing its occupation of five Lebanese hills in the south, which it seized during the last war, in addition to other Lebanese areas it has occupied for decades.