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.
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,
It is considered to be part of Israel's attempt to draw the US into the field,
Israel will escalate in a limited way and Hezbollah will respond in a limited way ... These are the assurances we've received,
The negotiations on the main issues will continue in the coming days,
We hope this war will end and this massacre will be the last one in this devastating war,
There's rivalry. Who is the real voice of the Druze community - is it the Israeli Druze who are integrated in Israel and serve in the army, or is it the Lebanese who have been taking a stance against Israel, specifically Jumblatt who is a historic leader of the Druze,
Many Druze feel angry and do not want to be fuel in this war for any side,
A Jewish child murdered on the Gaza border on Oct. 7 and a Druze child murdered on the Golan Heights are the same. These are our children,
The incident is being exploited by all sides,
It was a shock because not once in the last nine months, even when the sirens were sounding, did we feel we were being targeted,
Hezbollah has evacuated some positions in the south and in the Bekaa valley that it thinks could be a target for Israel,
Nobody wants a broader war, and I’m confident that we’ll be able to avoid such an outcome,
There must be a retaliation,
These children are our children, they are the children of all of us,
We will let actions speak for themselves.”
The estimation is that the response will not lead to an all-out war,
Nobody wants to start a wider conflict, but a miscalculation could trigger one. There is still space for a diplomatic solution,
It's an old, unguided artillery rocket,
It's something to lob large amounts of explosives over relatively short distance,