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We are nearing the moment in which we face an all-out war."
For more than nine months, Hezbollah is attacking our citizens in the north firing thousands of rockets and missiles and UAVs at northern Israel, targeting homes, families and communities,
On the border, there are no offensive deployments by the Israeli army that would indicate a ground attack against Lebanon, as was the case in 2006, 1982, and 1978,
Elias Farhat, a military analyst, told Al Jazeera We are not, let’s say, capable to do it in both places and at the same time.”
Igniting a war in Israel’s north while it’s engaged in Gaza would overburden the military, Barak Ben-Zur, a researcher at the International Institute of Counter-Terrorism, told journalists I feel darkness inside and out. Nothing like this happened here,
Anan Abu Saleh, a Majdal Shams resident, said from the soccer field on Saturday night Any unwise action by the Zionist regime is a ground-paving for expansion of instability, insecurity and war in the region,
said Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry We know how to strike even very far from the state of Israel,
We are in difficult moments. A heavy tragedy, a dark day has come to Majdal Shams,
said Dolan Abu Saleh, head of the Majdal Shams local council, in comments broadcast on Israeli television We will hit the enemy hard."
However, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, visiting the site of the strike, said The rocket that murdered our boys and girls was an Iranian rocket and Hezbollah is the only terror organization which has those in its arsenal,
Israel's foreign ministry said This is exactly the kind of thing that can send us into a spiral,
said Gershon Baskin, Middle East director of the International Communities Organisation based in Israel Escalation is never planned, it spins out of control,
We are in an escalating war, ... children have been targeted and those children are Druze Israeli citizens.”
It’s impossible to imagine and describe the horrific images of children and their smashed [body] parts strewn on the grass,
The massacres happening in Gaza are right next to us,
We’re here to learn about the history of Lebanon,
said one museum-goer, Mustafa al-Ajouz, visiting from Switzerland Hezbollah doesn’t vibe with – this,
Mrad said, gesturing at the sunbathers behind her drinking and playing beach tennis on the sand For example, look at how dirty this is,
Ghalayini said, pointing to a hospital lobby floor covered in plastic wrappers and dust We were swimming like one hour ago and they shot a missile or something,
said Maha Mrad, pointing down the southern Lebanese coastline, stretching out in the distance towards Israel Enough. We’re tired. Lebanon doesn’t want a war.”
Cars idle in traffic jams below anti-war billboards – reportedly funded by Lebanese businessmen in the Gulf – showing a mourning family and the words