Trump says Netanyahu should be more responsible with Lebanon or leave it to Syria

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he has a great relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but that the Zionist leader must be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.

Trump, speaking at the G7 summit, said he told Israel that he did not like its attack on Beirut and suggested that Syria should take care of Hezbollah instead of Israel.

Israel has been fighting Hezbollah for "too long and too many people are being killed," Trump noted.

“You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody because there’s a lot of people in those apartment houses – and they’re not all Hezbollah,” the US president said.

"I didn't like that he [Netanyahu] did an attack... that was too much," Trump says.

Trump also said that without the US, “there’d be no Israel.”

“Without me there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did,” he added.

“I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because to be honest with you, I think they’d do a better job of doing it,” Trump added.

Asked whether the US-Iran deal can survive even if Israel attacks Lebanon, Trump said: “It can”.

“I consider that the minor war,” said Trump, referring to the conflict in Lebanon “Iran’s the big one, but we have that little pinprick out there that constantly rears its head and that’s Hezbollah”.