On Tuesday, the Israeli army and Hezbollah exchanged cross-border bombing, coinciding with an unannounced visit by a special American envoy to Beirut. The American official is holding discussions with the heads of the House of Representatives and the government, and said that Washington does not want the scabs to spread from Gaza to Lebanon.

The US Special Envoy, Amos Hockstein, arrived today, Tuesday, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on an unannounced visit that comes against the backdrop of escalating regional tensions in the context of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, during which he met with the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament and the Prime Minister of the caretaker government.

During the visit, the senior American envoy stressed that the United States “does not want to extend the escalation from the Gaza Strip to Lebanon,” and told reporters, after a meeting with the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, that restoring calm along the southern border of Lebanon is “extremely important.” As he says.

He explained that he listened to Berri's concerns about the tensions along the border areas in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah fighters and Palestinian resistance factions in Lebanon have been exchanging fire with Israeli occupation army forces for about a month, in the wake of the devastating and violent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

Hockstein said, in a brief statement, that “the United States does not want to see the conflict in Gaza escalate and spread to Lebanon,” and added that he informed Berri of “what the United States is doing, which does not want what is happening in Gaza to escalate and does not want it to escalate.” It expands to Lebanon.

He continued: "Maintaining calm on the southern Lebanese border is of a high degree of importance to the United States, and it should also be for Lebanon and Israel, and this is what UN Resolution 1701 stipulates." While Berri's office said after the meeting, "The general situation and political and field developments were presented, in light of the escalation of the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and the Gaza Strip."

Later, Hockstein met with the Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, and reviewed with him the developments, especially the military escalation on the border in the south, according to a statement from Mikati’s office. According to the statement, during the meeting, the American envoy informed Mikati that he “saw through his conversations that Lebanon and Israel do not want to escalate the situation.”

He said, "Research is underway to reach a humanitarian truce in Gaza, before moving to the other stages of the solution," without clarifying what it is. Note that Washington is content with calling for “humanitarian truces” and rejects a ceasefire. Claiming that Hamas will benefit from it by reorganizing its ranks.

On the other hand, a member of parliament for Hezbollah said today that Hezbollah will respond “toughly” to any Israeli attacks on civilians after an Israeli strike that resulted in the death of three children and their grandmother in southern Lebanon, in statements issued by Representative Ali Fayyad. During the funeral of the bodies of the four Lebanese.

In the southern village of Blida, near the border, hundreds of men and women walked in front of the four coffins wrapped in black and white flags, on Tuesday, to bury them in the local cemetery, noting that the four martyrs were killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday evening, targeting civilian vehicles in southern Lebanon.

Representative Fayyad stressed that "the resistance will not tolerate any aggression targeting Lebanese civilians. It will respond to every aggression exponentially, and it will return the blow twice," in statements that reflect the turbulent situation along the southern Lebanese border region.

Lebanese security officials say that the confrontations, which are considered the most violent in the border region of southern Lebanon since 2006, led to the death of more than 60 Hezbollah fighters and ten civilians. Meanwhile, seven Israeli soldiers and at least one civilian were killed.