White House Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer says that United States officials were in talks with allies to help ease the escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel, according to a report by the Associated Press.
“We’re working on that in real time right here in New York and in capitals around the world,” Finer said in an appearance at an event hosted by the news site Axios on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“We’re not going to reveal all the details of those sensitive conversations, but we very much want that conflict to de-escalate.”
Finer sidestepped questions about whether the fighting has already become the all-out war that the US had been pressing Israel to avoid with Lebanon, but he underscored that a “big war, a wider war” is in neither Lebanon’s nor Israel’s interest.
