US does not want escalation after Golan Heights rocket attack, says Blinken

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US does not want escalation after Golan Heights rocket *******, says Blinken

By Simon Lewis and John Geddie

TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State

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said on Sunday he does not want to see an escalation of conflict on *******’s northern border after ******* accused Hezbollah of ******** 12 children and teenagers in a rocket ******* in the ********-occupied Golan Heights.

******* said on Sunday it would strike hard against the Iran-backed group after the incident. Blinken said the U.S. was in talks with ******* about the incident and the indications were that Lebanon-based Hezbollah fired the rocket.

Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the *******.

“I emphasize (*******’s) right to defend its citizens and our determination to make sure that they’re able to do that,” Blinken said during a news conference in Tokyo. “But we also don’t want to see the conflict escalate. We don’t want to see it spread.”

Blinken said he was saddened by the loss of life and said reaching a ceasefire deal on the war in Gaza can help to calm the situation on *******’s border with Lebanon.

“It’s so important that we help defuse that conflict, not only prevent it from escalating, prevent it from spreading, but to defuse it because you have so many people in both countries, in both ******* and Lebanon, who’ve been displaced from their homes,” Blinken said.

(Reporting by Simon Lewis and John Geddie; Editing by Sonali Paul, William Maclean)

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