BEIRUT 

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Friday that the calm in Lebanon requires a quick cease-fire in Gaza. 

“We informed all the international delegates who visited Lebanon that talking about a truce in Lebanon only is illogical,” said Mikati during his speech at the Cabinet session at the Government Palace in central Beirut. 

The Lebanese official demanded that “a cease-fire be reached as soon as possible in Gaza, in parallel with a serious cease-fire in Lebanon.”

Tensions have escalated along Lebanon’s border with Israel since the Israeli army launched a deadly military offensive on the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, amid an exchange of cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.

The clashes between them are the deadliest since the two sides had fought a full-scale war in 2006. 

*Writing by Ikram Kouachi