ZAZIR, northern Israel, March 15 (Reuters) – Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday that the government was not planning to hold direct talks with Lebanon in the coming days and had not told the United States it was running low on missile interceptors.
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported on Saturday that Israel and Lebanon were expected to hold direct talks in the coming days. Semafor also reported that Israel had informed Washington it was running critically low on ballistic missile interceptors.
Asked about the two reports, Saar said: “For the two questions, the answers is no.”
(Reporting by Alexander Cornwell; Editing by Joe Bavier)
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