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We discussed how the United States is prepared to help Israel defend against these attacks, and protect American personnel in the region,
Biden said on X about a meeting held with Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House national security team earlier in the day The building got struck down and I couldn’t protect my daughter or anyone else. Thank God, my son and I got out, but I lost my daughter and wife, I lost my home, I have become homeless. What do you want me to say? My whole life changed in a second,
said resident Abdulhamid Ramadan We will continue to hit Hezbollah ... the one who has a missile in his living room and a rocket in his home will not have a home,
Netanyahu said in a statement last month It was now time to ensure that those displaced from the north would be able to return to their homes,
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 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 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,
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,
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,
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 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.”
We express our solidarity with the leadership and people of friendly Lebanon, which has been subjected to armed aggression,
There is no need to send extra or volunteer forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
said foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani All the Zionist claims that (Israeli) occupation forces have entered Lebanon are false claims,
a Hezbollah spokesman told the broadcaster Al-Jazeera in a statement that was then published on Hezbollah channels ... adding there All state and international organizations, especially the UN, must stop Israel without wasting any more time,
said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who added This attack must end as soon as possible and Israeli soldiers must withdraw from Lebanese territory,
the foreign ministry said