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We fear a large-scale ground invasion by Israel into Lebanon would only result in greater suffering,
said UN human rights office spokeswoman Liz Throssell 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,
Our war is with Hezbollah, not with the people of Lebanon,
We will use all the means at our disposal to achieve this goal,
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said It is not what the Israelis are telling us. From open source [intelligence], we understand that the Israelis have prepared at least 18 brigades. So we are talking about between 70,000 and 100,000 soldiers,
Look at Gaza. Israel is stuck in Gaza without any clue how and when it will get out of Gaza,
Hezbollah has a special forces unit called the Radwan Force that focuses especially on fighting in the south and they train solely in that location. Obviously, the mountainous terrain, rocky terrain, lends itself to ambushes and sniper attacks,
They have also sent in the 7th Armoured Brigade, which is the cream of their armoured units, as well. They are very well trained, very well backed up,
Al Jazeera’s Defence Editor Alex Gatopoulos said What the Israeli side might be doing is a propaganda war when they speak about successfully entering Lebanese territory. So this might be part of an Israeli psychological war, which wouldn’t be the first time they resort to such tactics,
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,
Israel Ziv, a former director of the IDF Operations Directorate, told Israel’s 103 radio station hours after the attack was launched Hezbollah planned to invade Israel, attack Israeli communities and massacre innocent men, women and children,
the senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, said on Tuesday 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,
The situation we're living in is very difficult... people are dying,
There was bombing in al-Sallem neighbourhood. We stayed for a while there and my family fled,
We are not able to sleep and we don't know for how long we will stay here. A month, two months, a week or two, until this war is resolved,