Israeli foreign minister: Implementation of UN resolution will prevent war with Hezbollah

Israeli foreign minister, Israel Katz said on Wednesday that the "only way " to prevent "all out war" with Hezbollah is the immediate implementation of a UN resolution that bans armed factions in southern Lebanon from being near the frontier with Israel.

Katz said he had written to dozens of his counterparts calling for the implementation of UN resolution 1701.

The resolution stipulates that no armed factions should be present between Lebanon's Litani River and the border. The river is several kilometres (miles) from the border.

"Israel is not interested in an all-out war, but the only way to prevent it is the immediate implementation of Resolution 1701," Katz wrote in the letter.