Netanyahu Says He And Trump Share Goal To Disarm Hizbollah, Demilitarise Lebanon

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he and US President Donald Trump are aligned on the goal of disarming Hizbollah in order to achieve peace between Israel and Lebanon.

Hezbollah "is an Iranian proxy that puts all the citizens of Lebanon at gunpoint and uses Lebanon as a platform to launch terror missiles into our cities, to launch killer drones against our civilians", Netanyahu said in an interview with US television channel CNBC.

"And so if we want to save Lebanon, if we want to get a Lebanese-Israeli peace, as I do, we have to disarm Hizbollah and we have to demilitarise Lebanon. And I know that this is a goal that the president and I share, and that's what we have to do."

Lebanon's army said two personnel were wounded when an Israeli strike hit a military vehicle in the country's south on Wednesday, as Israel pounds the region in its ongoing war against Hizbollah.

"An Israeli enemy drone targeted an army vehicle on the Deir Zahrani-Nabatieh road, wounding an officer and a soldier," an army statement said, decrying "the deliberate targeting of army personnel, vehicles and positions".

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