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,
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 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,
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,
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,
We are trying to see what we can do to evacuate the families because things are not safe here anymore,
We will stand firm together in the testing days ahead,
I'm trying to be strong, to pretend I'm really strong, but honestly, I'm not,
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,
To the best of my understanding, this move is designed to target infrastructure that Hezbollah built, and parts of which we were unfamiliar with,
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,
We express our solidarity with the leadership and people of friendly Lebanon, which has been subjected to armed aggression,