The Times of Israel reports: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel’s preemptive overnight strike on Lebanon’s Hezbollah was not ‘the end of the story,’ as regional and global leaders warned against escalating toward a wider conflict.

Reuters reported on Sunday that Israel and Hezbollah had communicated via intermediaries in order to prevent further escalation, while Channel 12 news said Israel and Washington were working to achieve a detente through diplomacy. The network’s unsourced report said Washington had given its blessing to Israel’s pre-dawn strike, but warned against triggering an all-out war.

Meanwhile, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel hoped for a diplomatic settlement in the north, and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah indicated the Iran-backed terror group might consider the current round of hostilities to be over, even as allied terror groups applauded Hezbollah’s thwarted attack on Israel.

Gallant earlier discussed the overnight strikes in a call with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin, who according to the Axios news site ordered two US aircraft carrier strike groups to stay in the region…”