Biden to speak with Netanyahu as Israeli PM warns war with Iran proxies could spread Gaza's misery to Lebanon
CBSN
Tel Aviv — President Biden was scheduled to speak Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone, two sources familiar with the plans told CBS News. It will be the first conversation between the leaders in two months, and it will come as Israel plans its promised retaliation for Iran's ballistic missile attack last week.
The top-level discussion will also come amid growing concern that Israel's retaliatory action against Iran could hasten the escalation of violence in the Middle East into a wider regional war, with the potential to drag Iran and the U.S. directly into the fighting.
Fresh Israeli airstrikes pummeled the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh on Wednesday — a stronghold of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah. The Israeli Air Force said it had targeted a Hezbollah weapons production facility and intelligence headquarters in Dahieh.
