US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken denied today that his country had prior knowledge of the explosions that hit the pagers of hundreds of Hezbollah members in Lebanon the previous day.
The Islamist movement accused Israel of being behind this unprecedented attack, which left nine dead and at least 2,750 injured, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
The head of US diplomacy assured that Washington was not in any way associated with this attack and that the authorities are "gathering information and facts" about what happened on Tuesday afternoon in Lebanon, when thousands of pagers carried by members of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah exploded in a chain reaction - an action attributed to Israel by that movement and the Lebanese Government.
"Overall, we have been very clear, and we continue to be, about the importance of all parties avoiding any steps that would further escalate the conflict that we are trying to resolve in Gaza," insisted Blinken, who since the beginning of the war has warned of the need to avoid an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.
Blinken considered that "it is clear that none of the parties are interested" in an escalation of tensions, despite the fact that Hezbollah and Israel have maintained a cross-border exchange of fire since the beginning of the conflict in Gaza.
The US Secretary of State assured that the mediators between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas - the United States, Egypt and Qatar - are committed to achieving a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
However, Blinken acknowledged that the process of negotiating a truce remains a "complicated task", warning that "these things take time".
"We know that in the process there may be an event, an incident, something that hinders the process, that threatens to delay it," acknowledged the head of US diplomacy, referring to the explosion of '
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