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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 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,
In their view, ... the urgent threat that must be dealt with lies just across the border fence.”
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 There was bombing in al-Sallem neighbourhood. We stayed for a while there and my family fled,
The situation we're living in is very difficult... people are dying,
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,
Past attacks and this recent one, can further be interpreted as part of Israel’s long-term strategy to destabilise Palestinian communities in Lebanon, making the refugee situation and Palestinian cause even more untenable,
Ein el-Hilweh has been frequently cited by Israel as a hub for potential cross-border attacks or as a base for armed groups sympathetic to Hezbollah or other anti-Israeli forces,
Jasmin Lilian Diab, director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University, told Al Jazeera This is a refugee camp with a lot of narrow alleyways, very populated, [with] more than 130,000 people living there,
In this instance, Israel’s stated objective is likely to neutralise militant factions within the camp that they claim pose a direct security threat. However today, as in the past, such attacks have served as justifications for broader attacks on Palestinian livelihoods, ultimately leading to widespread destruction and civilian casualties,
Many buildings are unstable, and essential services like healthcare, electricity, and water are severely lacking,
The camp could face increased military pressure, with potential ground operations or further air strikes directly targeting it. This could lead to further mass displacement of Palestinian refugees both within Lebanon and potentially across borders if conditions worsen,
There are too many children dead, we need this war to end,
Over the past year, Hezbollah terrorists have murdered dozens of Israelis, including 12 children, on a soccer field, fired thousands of rockets at us, hit our villages of Metula, Shlomi, and the kibbutzim, and forced us to evacuate the north of the country.”
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett posted his blessing on social media You know how invasions start. I’m not certain that you know how it will develop and how it may the end. The previous experience we had with a ground operation in Lebanon lasted 18 years. It was a total failure, I mean, strategic failure. I don’t understand what’s precisely the strategy here.”
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a fierce Netanyahu critic, warned Recall that Israel’s incursion in 1982 was also billed as a limited and localized incursion,
noted Lebanese commentator Michael Young Their options are very limited. I think they’re going to have to focus on saving themselves. They haven’t yet chosen a successor to Nasrallah. They have to appoint new leaders to positions, who will be targeted by the Israelis the moment they are appointed. They have weeks, if not months, of just trying to survive,
he added, speaking to POLITICO from Beirut I think that Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is getting carried away and he’s being swept by the events and is losing proportion,
he added in an interview with POLITICO This is the time not to stop; continue to do everything with full force and crush Hezbollah in order to return the northern civilians safely to their homes.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, leader of the far-right Jewish National Front, said Tuesday