Lebanon’s president urges Macron to stop Israel’s threatened bombing of Beirut suburbs

Lebanon’s president urges Macron to stop Israel’s threatened bombing of Beirut suburbs Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has asked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to intervene to prevent Israel from carrying out a threatened large-scale bombing of Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Earlier, Israel issued forced displacement orders covering the entire area, which is home to hundreds of thousands of residents. On Wednesday, Macron said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Aoun, and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam about the Israel-Hezbollah hostilities, urging restraint.