Trump pressures Netanyahu to keep response to Hezbollah 'calculated and limited'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly told his ministers that there is nothing more that he can do in Lebanon.
"This is what Washington wants," Israel's public radio quoted the PM as saying.
The Israeli army on Tuesday struck and shelled several villages in south Lebanon after issuing an evacuation order for 16 villages south of the Litani river, despite a ceasefire.
Israel's Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu told U.S. President Donald Trump that failing to respond to Hezbollah's attacks encourages the group to go further and jeopardizes the ceasefire.
Trump requested that any Israeli response be "calculated and limited", Channel 12 said.
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