PNN – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained Washington’s determination to support Tel Aviv in a phone call with Israel’s War Minister Yoav Gallant.
Pakistan News Network; Three days after the US Defense Secretary was discharged from a military hospital, he held talks with Israel’s War Minister on Thursday evening about the war against Gaza and other “security issues in the region”.
According to the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin also spoke with Yoav Gallant about “Israel’s concerns on the Lebanese border” and emphasized “the determination of the United States to prevent the escalation of tensions.”
This telephone consultation took place after Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement yesterday, in which the Prime Minister of Israel said that he does not allow the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
Speaking to Austin, Gallant stated that the regime will continue this war until it achieves its goals in the war against Gaza.
According to Gallant’s office, he called “the destruction of Hamas’ military capabilities and the return of Israeli hostages” as the goals of the Zionist regime in the war against Gaza.
The Office of the Minister of War in Tel Aviv announced that he briefed the head of the Pentagon (the US Secretary of Defense) about the situation on the ground in the Gaza war, and they also discussed the “increasing tension on the border with Lebanon”.