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In Lebanon we're going to prevent any possibility of arms transfers in Lebanon from Iran,
said Air Force Commander Major General Tomer Bar Nasrallah's confidence ... depends on the supply coming from Iran,
he added, referring to Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah We are preparing shoulder to shoulder with Northern Command for a ground maneuver. Prepared, if activated. This is a decision to be made above us,
he told soldiers, in a video distributed by the Israeli military For the past two decades, Hezbollah has consistently and relentlessly deepened its presence in southern Lebanon, building outposts, along the blue line, hiding massive amounts of arms in the villages of southern Lebanon in clear violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701. We have a duty to make sure that Israeli civilians can return safely back to their homes. We have a duty to make sure that October the 7th never happens again - on any one of our borders,
Israel is basically telegraphing its punches to its enemy so that it can minimize civilian harm,
Today, Hezbollah expanded its range of fire, and later today, they will receive a very strong response. Prepare yourselves,
Following Hezbollah missile strikes on central Israel, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said ... according to Time Magazine The IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] has observed around 40,000 Iranian-backed Iraqi, Syrian, and Houthi militants concentrate around the Syrian border with the Golan Heights, according to Israeli media
According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW When it comes to Lebanon, the U.S. military has no involvement in Israel's operations,
You're seeing a full-court press here from United States government and this administration. We want to see a diplomatic solution, and we want to see it urgently,
No. No support."
Asked about whether the United States was supporting Israel's operations in Lebanon, including with intelligence support, Singh said We are preparing the process of a manoeuvre, which means your military boots, your manoeuvring boots, will enter enemy territory, enter villages that Hezbollah has prepared as large military outposts,
An all-out war is possible, but I think there’s also the opportunity – we’re still in play to have a settlement that can fundamentally change the whole region,
Biden said in an appearance on the ABC programme The View, broadcast on Wednesday I can’t go into detail about everything we do. But I can tell you one thing: We are determined to return our residents in the north safely to their homes,
What they both want, Netanyahu and the military, is for Hezbollah to do something that would sort of force Israel’s hand. But Hezbollah is not doing that, Iran is not doing that,
The possibility of an Israeli invasion in Lebanon is gaining momentum within the Israeli political and military establishment,
Imad Salamey, a professor of political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, told Al Jazeera They are really trying to do something quick, in the hopes that they might be able to bring so much pressure to bear on Hezbollah that they will have no choice but to try to negotiate a quick end to this thing,
Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel Program and senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, told Al Jazeera For a year now, [the government has] been telling them that the only thing that will give [Israelis] the necessary security is a war,
If there is an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, paradoxically, Hezbollah could feel that it is back in its ‘comfort zone’ because they are used to fighting Israeli invasions, they know every single village in south Lebanon,
Karim Emile Bitar, a professor of international relations at St Joseph’s University in Beirut, told Al Jazeera Right now, my assessment would be that it’s still for show, but it might change within 24 hours,
The Israelis were hoping with the assassinations, with the pager explosions and so on, that they’d be able to change the dynamic by doing something so significant, so unprecedented, that it would force Hezbollah to recalculate the idea of trying to make this a long drawn-out war,