Trump says Syria 'will do the job' with Hezbollah if Israel unable
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had suggested to Israel that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa should deal with Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah seeing as the Israeli campaign was causing too many casualties.
Praising Sharaa as doing an "amazing job", Trump said at a G7 summit: "If Israel can't do the job (against Hezbollah) without killing everyone else, than he (Sharaa) will do the job. Syria will do the job."
Trump also said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon," adding that he is "not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah."
"They should have been able to do the job faster. It just goes on forever, and when that happens it throws a negative light for the big deal, and that's the deal with Iran," Trump added.
Trump also criticized Israel's latest strike on an apartment in Beirut's southern suburbs, saying that he saw "where that bomb went," calling the attack "vicious" and "too much," and noting that buildings targeted in Lebanon always contain residents who are not members of Hezbollah.
Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet
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