Sébastien Lecornu, France's minister of the armed forces, met with officials in Lebanon on Wednesday in a bid to keep the Middle Eastern country out of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The trip comes amid rising border tensions between crisis-shaken Lebanon and its southern neighbour Israel since the start of the Gaza conflict earlier this month. Lecornu will visit the Lebanon-Israel border on Thursday, FRANCE 24's Rawad Taha reports from Beirut, Lebanon.
