IDF's Maj. Gen. Uri Gordon vows swift action on the Lebanese border amid rising tensions after Hezbollah operatives were injured by boobytrapped pagers and calls for a broader conflict to escalate.
"When you have continuous attacks on the territory of Israel by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that has supported Iran, you have to provide a proportional response."
The Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib sent a special third-party message to Foreign Minister Israel Katz explaining to him that his country did not want a war to break out between them.
A researcher told Saudi news that Israel and Hezbollah's advancement in military capability since 2006 shows they were both preparing for another war.
Tehran “is fighting us on a seven-front war: obviously, Hamas, Hezbollah as well as the Houthis, the militias in Iraq and Syria, the West Bank, and Iran itself,” says Netanyahu.
Lebanese armed groups would withdraw combat forces and Lebanese regular army troops would be deployed in the south.
The Lebanese government is no longer providing the monthly $20,000 USD needed to maintain the hospital generators.
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