Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister and one of the country’s most prominent centre-left voices, has criticised the Israeli government’s handling of Lebanon, Al Jazeera reports.

Writing on X, Livni has said the current arrangement of a US-Iran-Qatar-Lebanon mechanism to halt IDF operations in Lebanon represented a failure that could have been avoided.

“This is terrible for Israel, and it’s happening because the government has not leveraged military achievements for security,” she says.

Livni has outlined what she said she had proposed at the time: an Israeli-led mechanism involving the US, Israel and Lebanon to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and disarm Hezbollah.