You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering as we see in Gaza,
We have told all sides that the north is still crowded with people ... and we have the right to provide them services,
The situation is extremely difficult. The bombing and explosions haven't stopped,
As long as the enemy threatens our existence and the peace of our country, we will continue to fight. As long as our hostages are still in Gaza, we will continue to fight,
We know in our minds, our hearts, in every cell in our bodies: there will be no rehabilitation without the return of the hostages. All of them,
I have grown old while watching my children hungry, scared, having nightmares and screaming day and night from the sound of the bombing and shells,
Fishing was the way we supported our children. If we don't go out to sea, we won't be able to feed ourselves,
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We are firing hundreds of rockets and dozens of drones. A large number of settlements and cities are under the fire of the resistance."
Our military capabilities are fine,
The devastation is beyond belief for all people in Lebanon as it is in Gaza. We can't let this happen again,
We are seeing the same patterns that we saw in Gaza,
We need to do everything we can to stop that from happening,
It is in my mind from the time I wake until the time I sleep, that we could go into the same sort of spiral of doom... We shouldn't allow that to happen,
I don't see Hezbollah backing down, even at this level of pain that the Israelis are inflicting upon them,
We support their ability to target militants, to degrade Hezbollah's infrastructure, to degrade Hezbollah's capability. But we are very cognizant of the many times in the past where Israel has gone in on what looked like limited operations and has stayed for months or for years,
There are ways to avoid a ground invasion,
What the Israelis have been doing is gradually ratcheting up pressure on Hezbollah to make the price of continuing to attack in support of Gaza too costly for the organization,
I would call it a kind of proactive attrition,
Forces from the Commando Brigade, including soldiers from the Egoz Unit, located and destroyed a Hezbollah attack infrastructure, which included a rocket launcher, explosive stockpiles, and additional military equipment,