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Hezbollah's goal is to keep the Israeli military off balance to give Hamas and its allies a chance at surviving the war in Gaza."
The intermittent rocket fire is due to Hamas and its allies having a limited stockpile of rockets and mortars to attack Israeli targets."
They have not fired out hundreds of rockets on major cities because they don't want a large-scale war to break out."
Stocks are dwindling, Palestinian terrorist groups do not know when this war is going to end, and they must conserve what they have remaining."
There is a need for another sort of off-ramp between Israel and Hezbollah because the current situation, as we see happening, could not last for a longer time,
I think both sides had agreed to some unspoken rules of the game, as they say, in which the attacks would continue, but both sides implicitly recognized sort of thresholds which they would not attack on the other side,
We will always argue for Israel's right to defend itself but we hope that cooler and calmer heads will prevail and we do not see a full-scale conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
Asked if the Government would support an Israeli ground invasion against Hezbollah, Mr McFadden said These children are our children... The State of Israel will not, and cannot, let this pass. Our response will come and it will be severe,
he said at the site of the attack, according to a statement issued by his office It is considered to be part of Israel's attempt to draw the US into the field,
We are willing to improve our relations with France on the basis of mutual trust,
Pezeshkian added in his conversation with Macron Any possible Israeli attack on Lebanon will have serious consequences for Israel,
Pezeshkian was quoted by Iranian state media as saying These children are our children, they are the children of all of us,
he said as officials laid a wreath on the field We both agreed that widening of conflict in the region is in nobody’s interest,
Lammy said in a post on the social media site X We will let actions speak for themselves.”
He did not elaborate, saying only The Secretary reaffirmed the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security against threats from Iranian-backed terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah. He emphasized the importance of preventing escalation of the conflict and discussed efforts to reach a diplomatic solution to allow citizens on both sides of the border between Israel and Lebanon to return home,
If I didn’t know better by your statement, it appears the attack kind of spontaneously happened by an evil missile acting on its own."
David Wurmser, a former senior adviser for nonproliferation and Middle East strategy for former Vice President Dick Cheney, wrote in response to Lew’s message on X Hezbollah has evacuated some positions in the south and in the Bekaa valley that it thinks could be a target for Israel,
the source close to the group told AFP, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media We have been in continuous discussions with Israeli and Lebanese counterparts since the horrific attack,
Following the sirens that sounded in the areas of Admit and Ya’ara, the IDF Aerial Defense System successfully intercepted a UAV that crossed from Lebanon toward the area of the Western Galilee. Rocket and missile sirens were sounded following the possibility of falling shrapnel from the interception."
An update by the IDF shared on social media read Israel will escalate in a limited way and Hezbollah will respond in a limited way... These are the assurances we've received,