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That’s part of why their attack seemed smaller than what it was and our readiness in our aerial defense systems,
The exchange of fire alongside the Israeli-Lebanese border ... and the post-strike messages from both Israel and Hezbollah seemingly indicate neither is interested in an all-out war,
Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official and negotiator, said in an analysis shared with NBC News on Sunday There are still martyrs and body parts under the rubble, most of them women, men, and elderly people who were sleeping when the building was hit,
ambulance driver Hussein Muhaysen said We came here... and now they want (us) to leave,
We have nowhere to go,
said Maha al-Sarsak, who was initially displaced from Gaza City to the south, which she "had to leave," before reaching Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah Both Israel and Hezbollah calibrated their operations very carefully to avoid an escalation or an evolution of the hostilities into a full-fledged Middle East war,
said James Dorsey, an adjunct senior fellow from Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies It’s possible that Iran asked and demanded Hezbollah to be restrained,
That's at least what the Israelis have been trying to say – we saw the Israeli delegation going to Cairo without considering that the ongoing escalation with Hezbollah could compromise the talks,
Neither Israel nor Hezbollah nor Iran, nor their various backers – the United States, Russia, Syria, France – want to see an escalation of the war,
Dorsey told CNA’s Asia Tonight programme on Sunday (Aug 25). That partly was presumably for Hezbollah to respond to stepped-up Israeli attacks, and to reassert its deterrence capabilities,
There were explosions in the area of Haifa,
said Abigail Levy, a resident of the coastal city further south They (the Americans) started saying there will be a stop to the aggression and that there was going to be a ceasefire, and to hold off. And that is why we took our time. We didn't tell anyone we would take our time but honestly we took our time to give room for these negotiations. Our main goal in this front and all this blood lost and all these sacrifices is to stop the aggression on Gaza,
he said in a video speech in Lebanon Hamas is being asked to accept Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, entirely or partly,
said Ibrahim Dalalsha, director of the Horizon Center, a Palestinian research group in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Strategically, the situation has not changed and we are where we were,
said Shira Efron, an analyst at Israel Policy Forum, a New York-based research group The target should not be a civilian enemy or infrastructure,
he said in the aforementioned televised speech We are striking Hezbollah with surprising, destructive force,
This in practice means continuous attritional war, with constant risk of escalation with no end in sight,
Asking them to even consider such a condition is basically asking them to commit suicide, politically speaking,
If the result is not enough, then we retain the right to respond another time.
In a televised address, he said The intent of Hezbollah was to target intelligence bases such as the Mossad headquarters