The deaths of 12 children in a rocket strike in Israeli-occupied territory has seen tensions reach boiling point.
"What I worry about every single day," he said, "is that a miscalculation or an accident… hits a bus full of children, or hits another kind of civilian target, that could force the political system in either country to retaliate in a way that slides us into war. Even though both sides probably understand that a fuller or deeper-scale war is in neither side's interest."READ MORE:There are fears Israel and Hezbollah could enter a full-scale war.
"We're fed up with lofty rhetoric and hollow words accompanied by feeble action," former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told CNN. Moreover, as Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told CNN, "it has the potential to create a situation that we have never seen in this region: a major regional war, which could draw in the Gulf". He warns it could also lead to direct confrontation between the US and Iran.
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