Tensions between the Israeli navy and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah are at an all-time excessive.
They’ve been engaged in low-level hostilities for greater than eight months.
Israel’s assassination of certainly one of Hezbollah’s most senior commanders final week, nonetheless, has led to an escalation.
United States President Joe Biden despatched a particular envoy to the area, hoping to defuse tensions and forestall a wider battle.
However has it labored?
And with no signal the Israeli navy is near ending its conflict on Gaza, is it getting ready to opening up a second entrance within the north?
Presenter: Neave Barker
Visitors:
Nicholas Noe – Editor-in-chief of the Beirut-based Mideastwire.com
Robert Geist Pinfold – Lecturer in peace and safety at Durham College
Mohanad Hage Ali – Deputy analysis director on the Malcolm H Kerr Carnegie Center East Heart
