Is Israel planning to cross its northern border and launch a ground invasion of Lebanon? Although it has denied such a thing in the recent past, this possibility is becoming more likely after it became known that Israel proceeded to mobilize two reserve brigades on the northern border for the operational activities, according to an official statement of the army.
The commander of the IDF (Israeli Armed Forces) announced to the reservists that the bombing by Israeli fighters is aimed at preparing the ground for a possible ground invasion.
Israel’s chief of staff told soldiers today that airstrikes in Lebanon will continue to destroy Hezbollah’s infrastructure and prepare the ground for a possible ground operation by Israeli forces.
“Do you hear the jets above us? We hit all day”General Herchi Halevi said to soldiers of an armored unit on the border with Lebanon, according to an army statement. “This is to prepare the ground for your possible entry (into Lebanon) and to continue insulting Hezbollah”he added.
In the video released by the army, Halevi tells the soldiers that the target is “clear: for the northerners to return safely. To do this, we are preparing the development of our movement (…) your entry there, the confrontation with the Hezbollah men who will see what the professionals, the very skilled and experienced soldiers are”.
“You are much stronger than them, much more experienced than them, you penetrate inside and destroy the enemy there,” added the general.
Live update: IDF chief: Ground op against Hezbollah being prepared; ‘very strong response’ to Tel Aviv rocket coming
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From 20:00 (Greece time and Israel time) the meeting of the War Cabinet under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has started in Tel Aviv, as reported by the Times of Israel, citing an official.
Netanyahu: The fight against Lebanon’s Hezbollah will continue
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today reiterated his pledge that the fight against Lebanon’s Hezbollah will continue until displaced residents of northern Israel return safely to their homes.
“We are dealing blows to Hezbollah that it could never have imagined. We use force and tricks. I can promise you one thing: we will not stop until (displaced northerners) return to their homes,” Netanyahu says in a video message.
The Times of Israel reports that the video message with the Israeli prime minister’s commitment was released amid rumors that he had given the “green light” to talks aimed at a temporary cessation of hostilities with Hezbollah in order to negotiate a possible truce. .
Live update: Amid reports of potential halt in fighting, Netanyahu says ‘can’t lay out’ everything being done
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The UK is sending troops to Cyprus in anticipation of a mass evacuation of its nationals
Britain is moving troops to Cyprus to help evacuate its nationals trapped in Lebanon, the Times of Israel reports. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on Wednesday for diplomacy and an immediate ceasefire to pull Israel and Hezbollah back from the brink of all-out war.
Starmer told British citizens to leave while there were still commercial flights.
“It’s very important that they hear my message, which is to leave and leave immediately,” he told reporters.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched drones against the Israeli city of Eilat
Drones of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted Eilat, Israel today, the pro-Iranian organization announced.
The Israeli military said it intercepted a drone launched from the east.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) is a network of Iranian-backed Shiite Islamist organizations that have in the recent past launched attacks against US bases in Iraq.
Minutes earlier, Iraq’s Hezbollah Brigades, an armed, influential pro-Iranian organization, called for “increased” and intensified “operations” against the “Israeli enemy.”
“We hope that the Islamic Resistance factions in Iraq, which support Palestine and Lebanon, will increase the number and scope of their operations, as well as the level of threat” to the enemy, a spokesman for the Iraqi Brigades said in a statement of Hezbollah, Abu Ali al-Askari, referring to Israel.
For the third day he is pounding Lebanon
The Israeli army announced that it launched strikes today “large scale” in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley in the east, Hezbollah strongholds. For its part, Hezbollah said it had fired a rocket toward Tel Aviv, the first time the Israeli military said it had intercepted it.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s health ministry said 23 people were killed today in Israeli raids on various communities, some of them in mountainous areas outside Hezbollah strongholds, as the Israeli army said it was continuing its shelling. “large scale”.
Airstrikes continue in Lebanon for a third day, while the Israeli air force widened the perimeter of its operations.
A strike in Maaisara, a Shiite mountain village about 30 km north of Beirut, caused three deaths, according to the health ministry.
An AFP photographer on the ground said a house was almost completely destroyed, with rescuers searching for survivors under the rubble.
The dead “they were civilians who had left their homes in southern Lebanon and came here (…) They are poor families, who had nowhere to go”says Fatima, a resident of the village who asked only to be given her first name.
“What’s the message behind it? Where do we go from here? We will not leave”he added. “No place is safe anymore.”
On Mount Souf south of Beirut, “Israeli strike kills four people”the Ministry of Health also said.
Raids on three communities in southern Lebanon left nine more dead.
The public hospital in the city of Nabatiya in southern Lebanon was damaged by an Israeli raid, the government of the province of the same name said.
“It’s the only public hospital in the area, it suffered significant damage after an impact near here”said Hoyda Turk.
In eastern Lebanon, a strike in Baalbek-Hermel caused seven deaths, according to the ministry.
Lebanon: The UN recorded another 90,000 displaced people in the country
At least 90,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon, the scene of intensive Israeli strikes since the beginning of the week, as the United Nations reported today, while at least 51 people were injured today by Israeli strikes in the country, according to the Lebanese health minister.
As of yesterday, Monday, the International Organization for Migration registered “90,530 new displaced persons”, it stated in a statement.
At least 51 people were killed and 223 injured today by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abyad said at a press conference.
Israel: Army hits ‘more than 280 Hezbollah targets’ in Lebanon
The Israeli military announced today that it hit more than 280 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, from where the Islamist group fires rockets into Israeli territory.
After “several missiles” were fired from Lebanon “by the Hezbollah terrorist organization” the military “hit the launchers used” for those attacks as well as “other terrorist targets,” the statement said.
In total, “more than 280 Hezbollah terrorist targets” were hit, according to the military.
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