For years, Israel has warned the world that Hezbollah is violating international law and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which prohibits the presence of armed militants and weapons in southern Lebanon. This was a resolution that the international community agreed on and Lebanon and UNIFIL failed to enforce,
The United States has indications that Iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel. We are actively supporting defensive preparations to defend Israel against this attack. A direct military attack from Iran against Israel will carry severe consequences for Iran,
Our soldiers entered Hezbollah's underground infrastructure; exposed Hezbollah's hidden weapons caches and seized and destroyed the weapons including advanced, Iranian-made weapons,
We will continue to hit Hezbollah ... the one who has a missile in his living room and a rocket in his home will not have a home,
The elimination of Nasrallah is an important step, but it is not the final one,
It was now time to ensure that those displaced from the north would be able to return to their homes,
We fear a large-scale ground invasion by Israel into Lebanon would only result in greater suffering,
We should have a ceasefire now,
Our war is with Hezbollah, not with the people of Lebanon,
We will use all the means at our disposal to achieve this goal,
Look at Gaza. Israel is stuck in Gaza without any clue how and when it will get out of Gaza,
Hezbollah has a special forces unit called the Radwan Force that focuses especially on fighting in the south and they train solely in that location. Obviously, the mountainous terrain, rocky terrain, lends itself to ambushes and sniper attacks,
It is not what the Israelis are telling us. From open source [intelligence], we understand that the Israelis have prepared at least 18 brigades. So we are talking about between 70,000 and 100,000 soldiers,
They have also sent in the 7th Armoured Brigade, which is the cream of their armoured units, as well. They are very well trained, very well backed up,
All Zionist claims that [Israeli] occupation forces have entered Lebanon are false,
What the Israeli side might be doing is a propaganda war when they speak about successfully entering Lebanese territory. So this might be part of an Israeli psychological war, which wouldn’t be the first time they resort to such tactics,
Over the past year, Hezbollah terrorists have murdered dozens of Israelis, including 12 children, on a soccer field, fired thousands of rockets at us, hit our villages of Metula, Shlomi, and the kibbutzim, and forced us to evacuate the north of the country.”
You know how invasions start. I’m not certain that you know how it will develop and how it may the end. The previous experience we had with a ground operation in Lebanon lasted 18 years. It was a total failure, I mean, strategic failure. I don’t understand what’s precisely the strategy here.”
I think that Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is getting carried away and he’s being swept by the events and is losing proportion,
Recall that Israel’s incursion in 1982 was also billed as a limited and localized incursion,