The Wall Street Journal quoted officials as saying that US President Joe Biden convinced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from launching a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah in Lebanon days after the Hamas attack on October 7. (October) last.

According to the officials, Israel had intelligence information that Washington considered unreliable, that Hezbollah fighters were preparing to cross the border, as part of a multi-front attack, which prompted some of the more hard-line Israeli officials to consider launching a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah.

The Wall Street Journal quoted informed sources as saying that Biden phoned Netanyahu on October 11 and asked him to slow down and think about the consequences of striking Hezbollah in Lebanon, while Israeli planes were in the air and waiting for the implementation order, according to what it reported. «Arab World News Agency».

The officials said that the American side received the first indication that Israel intended to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah on the morning of October 11, when Israeli officials quickly informed the White House that they believed Hezbollah was planning to launch an attack.

The newspaper quoted American officials as saying that Israel was aware that it could not do this alone, and requested American support, and that after 45 minutes of discussion, Netanyahu ended the phone call with Biden, saying that he would discuss the matter with his government.

The officials added that Israeli officials agreed to abandon launching a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah after phone calls and meetings that witnessed a state of tension that lasted 6 hours, as Washington insisted that the intelligence information does not indicate an imminent attack by Hezbollah.