They should not do it. It would be a big mistake if they do,
I think what Israel is trying to do is to use this particular moment in order to try to paralyze Hezbollah, to try to demoralize Hezbollah,
We need to take care of it because we will not let another 7th of October occur next to our border,
The IDF conducted hundreds of special operations during the last months to map and analyze Hezbollah’s hostile infrastructure in civilian houses in southern Lebanon, as well as targeted aerial campaigns against Hezbollah personnel,
I do think Israel learned from prior mistakes both in 1982 and in 2006, mostly in the military sense, in the sense that it does rely far more on its intelligence capabilities, and on smaller scale and phased raids to attack,
It was a strategic failure for Israel,
These concerns are valid, because even if Israel seeks a limited operation, it can easily be pulled in even more, either due to military factors ... or political ones, if hawks within the government push to expand the goal of the operation,
Hezbollah planned to invade Israel, attack Israeli communities and massacre innocent men, women and children,
In their view, ... the urgent threat that must be dealt with lies just across the border fence.”
Underneath that envelope [of limited military action], a war of attrition might still continue, with rocket and mortar fire and anything else, which won’t really allow life in the northern communities,
To the best of my understanding, this move is designed to target infrastructure that Hezbollah built, and parts of which we were unfamiliar with,
We express our solidarity with the leadership and people of friendly Lebanon, which has been subjected to armed aggression,
There is no need to send extra or volunteer forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
We should have a ceasefire now."
All state and international organizations, especially the UN, must stop Israel without wasting any more time,
This attack must end as soon as possible and Israeli soldiers must withdraw from Lebanese territory,
All the Zionist claims that (Israeli) occupation forces have entered Lebanon are false claims,
We're not going to Beirut. We're not going to the cities in southern Lebanon. We are focusing on the area of those villages next to our border,
Our soldiers entered Hezbollah's underground infrastructure; exposed Hezbollah's hidden weapons caches and seized and destroyed the weapons including advanced, Iranian-made weapons,
The operations that we de-classified tonight are only a small number of dozens of operations that we will reveal going forward, including the destruction of Hezbollah's strategic assets and capabilities,