French President Emmanuel Macron has called an Israeli air strike on Lebanon “unacceptable”, saying it was a “violation of the ceasefire” agreed in November.
Such attacks “play into the hands of Hezbollah,” Mr Macron told reporters after a meeting with new Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.
Israel made good on its threat to strike Beirut after rockets were fired towards its territory, rattling an already fragile truce in Lebanon that had largely ended more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah.
It was the second time rockets had been launched at Israel from Lebanon since the November ceasefire, and the second time the Iran-backed Hezbollah denied…