Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Clashes raged in southern Lebanon, the heartland of Hezbollah, on March 14, a day after a report by Axios revealed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is planning to invade the region “like Gaza”.
The report, which cited Israeli and American officials, said that Israel is planning to launch a “massive” ground invasion of southern Lebanon in order to push Hezbollah away from the border line and destroy all of its weapons stores and positions.
“We are going to do what we did in Gaza,” a senior Israeli official told Axios, referring to the destruction of buildings and tunnels that Hezbollah uses to store its weapons and launch strikes.
“The goal is to take over territory, push Hezbollah’s forces north and away from the border, and dismantle its military positions and weapons depots in the villages,” the official said.
The official said that Israel had largely been trying to contain the situation in Lebanon and focus on Iran, but that had changed after Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets at northern Israel on March 11 in an attack that was coordinated with the Islamic Republic, which fired missiles at the same time.
The group resumed attacks against Israel right after the start of the war on Iran, ending a ceasefire in Lebanon that was brokered by the United States more than 15 months ago.
“Before this attack we were ready for a ceasefire in Lebanon, but after it there is no way back from a massive operation,” a senior Israeli official told the site.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, ordered — on the same day Axios published its report — a “broad reinforcement” of troops in the Northern Command, “as part of strengthening readiness for various offensive and defensive scenarios,” according to a military statement.
The deployment will include forces from the standing army, including the elite 98th Paratroopers Division with two brigade-level combat teams and combat engineering battalions.
Battles between the IDF and Hezbollah raged in southern Lebanon on March 14, mainly in the strategic town of Khiam and nearby areas.
In separate statements released throughout the day, the group said that it hit multiple main battle tanks of the IDF, and targeted several gatherings of Israeli troops. The IDF, from its side, launched intense strikes, targeting southern Lebanon, where 19 people were reportedly killed, in addition to the Hezbollah stronghold of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Lebanon’s health ministry said the death toll from Israeli attacks in the country since the start of the fighting has risen to 826, with 2,009 people wounded. From its side Israel has so far lost just two soldiers.
A full-on invasion could be very costly for the IDF, as Hezbollah is still well-armed and appears to be determined to fight back at all costs.
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on March 13 that his group was ready for a long confrontation with Israel. “We have prepared ourselves for a long confrontation, and God willing, they [Israelis] will be surprised on the battlefield,” Qassem said in his second televised address since the latest war began.
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whichever part of joo hell he and gvir are currently occupying. the jooz obviously enjoyed their little excursion into lebanon from 1982-2000 so much that they want a 2nd helping. rest assured, hezb will give them its traditional very warm welcome. the amerikunt marines seem to be at a loose end at the moment. maybe they will join in soon to provide an even more target rich environment.
you sound like a jew. would consider attending a dreidel competition with me next month?
jews are forever cursed. there is a good reason why they never evolved to our superior goyim levels
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uyghurs would be afraid to go near the cracks because they would think the devil would crawl out of hell. no more sheep or wheat in latakia and no more kurdish olives. only desert and only scorpions.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/138692 i wish that this would no longer be the case in syria. just a few dozen uyghurs and no one else. so that nothing would grow except cactus.
i want all of syria to turn into a desolate wasteland like mars. so that there would be nothing left alive in it except a couple of scorpions and a couple of uyghur isis-k imported from china. that the climate syria would suddenly be so terrible that even the israeli settlers and their druze servants, hungry and thirsty,
would goto russia and establish khazaria in southern russia. that in the end, there would only be a few uyghur isis-ks and a few scorpions left in syria, constantly cannibalizing each other because there would be nothing left to eat. that eventually piles of dirty sand would roll through the syrian atmosphere, settling on plants and animals, making it impossible to breathe and even photosynthesis would cease.
it would also have to stop raining in syria altogether, so that the cracked earth
https://hawarnews.com/ar/138678 i hope that dirty and ugly syria turns into such a desert that only isis-k will remain inside and the israelis and russians will leave. that life there will be similar to life on mars and only once a year will some isis toyota drive through the deserted desert. but even that one will not be willing to stop, because there will be nothing there anymore.only sand and scorpions.no more signs of life. an empty and destroyed space in which not even a rat can live.
let him thank the traitors putler and assad. i hope 2029 comes to the white house for president of united states newsom and he bombed both assad and putler to hell. i mean that literally.
is he still alive ?lol!
yep. that’s what the jews in kiev used to chant. quiet now though 🙁
sure enough, invade like gaza and join the 6-finger in hell
iran will also look like gaza soon…heheheh
because of russia’s betrayal of venezuela and syria, this is happening. i hope the democrats will come and bomb the traitors in moscow. i mean both the traitorous corrupt russians and the traitorous treacherous alawites. in any case, the crime that these people have committed against their friends hezbollah by their betrayal is so great that i wish all the alawites were dead and homs, latakia and tartus were turned into an empty desert.so that only dust and desert would remain of them.
joo central in tel aviv already does. that’s why the kikes are jailing anyone for 5 years who photographs the devastation. soon there won’t be any point firing any more missiles, it’ll just make the rubble bounce around a bit. heheheheh
surely you mean israhell and telly vive in particular
hahahah…israel already does. especially that festering hole, tel aviv. haifa is still smoking…the smell of roasted zionists is terrible. smells like a burning outhouse…must be all those depends on fire.
netanyahu es dead
netanyahu is putlers friend and if alawites were actually people and not pigs and monkeys, putler would have been shot in moscow by now.
damn, imagine living as a jew in israel, they are hating life and humanity every day. even worse is being a neighbors to the jews. worst of all are real palestinians who have to put up with nazism every day. the jews are cursed forever. they are humanity’s curse.
ci debile mają manie wyższości. myślą, że jarmułka daje im jakiś specjalny przywilej, bycia nadczłowiekiem i… chyba mają rację, bo na nich nawet nic nie można powiedzieć, bo zaraz “antysemityzm”, a oni mogą niszczyć świat i wszyscy ich poklepują.
the problem is that khazaria actually existed and if we are lucky, climate change will cause this band of thieves to return to their khazaria.then the treacherous alawites and the equally treacherous russians will finally pay a fair price for their betrayal.their treacherous nature is such an obstacle that i cannot forgive them. or maybe something so terrible will happen that the area will no longer be habitable.
two million have migrated from russia. therefore, the iranians themselves should hang the people who handed over the drones to russia.
they say only 3 idf soldiers killed, but they’re gaining no ground. doesn’t make sense.
israel is the most hated country on the planet. the world cheers when rockets fall and blow up shit in israel.
i t ‘s n o t a coun try . the lo s zeta s area in me xico is not a co untry e ither. they have a leader, the y h ave la ws, but they are not a cou ntry.with any luck, cl imat e chan ge will make s yr ia and is rae l co mple tely u n inha bit ab le. that i t will no longe r be po ssi ble to live th e re.
climate change is a lie.
is not a country. the los zetas area is not a country either.
we like killing school gils cuz we are 340 million transgender degenerates that like to corn hole little boys
why do you brag about being transgender?
“we are going to do what we did in gaza” — get our asses handed to us on the ground while we slaughter civilians from the air.
they were going for a cease-fire before hezbollah attacked. right…there wasn’t a cease fire all along, trump only said there was …for lebanon, not for israel. who are these liars talking to ? trump? idiots that only watch the tv? well, salam, where is that cease-fire? are you in on the gaza-like attack that was coming? are you a traitor too? he should be shot.
the idf child killers should remember 2006 when they had their arses handed to them, hezbollah will be looking forward to meeting those bastards on the ground face to face, they can’t even beat hamas after two years.
baby killers have arrived
is that where the us marines are going? israel has no issues in performing genocide upon its neighbors. a claim is all a heretic needs to destroy civilization. fear of losing control regional drives the zealots. the rest of the worlds armies are too quiet in repelling the epstine class
“before this attack we were ready for a ceasefire in lebanon”
natuarally u diaper wearing shitbag.
the jooz had better order an extra large consignment of diapers.