Report: Netanyahu tells US he'll avoid strikes similar to Thursday's

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus welcomed Lebanon’s move to name a civilian representative in the Mechanism ceasefire committee, but President Joseph Aoun lamented to her the violent Israeli strikes that targeted residential buildings in south Lebanon the next day, a media report said.

Aoun said what happened “represented a negative message from (Israeli PM Benjamin) Netanyahu, especially that the inspection of the targeted sites proved that they were all civilian targets containing no Hezbollah military assets as Israel had claimed,” al-Joumhouria newspaper reported.

“Ortagus expressed understanding of Aoun’s remarks, adding that she had chided Netanyahu on behalf of her administration over what happened and that Netanyahu said that he would be keen to avoid a repetition of such a move,” the daily added.