Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may have begun or is about to begin small raids across the Lebanon border to take out nearby Hezbollah positions, United States media reported on September 29.
Two U.S. officials told ABC News that Israel does not appear to have decided whether to launch a full ground operation into Lebanon, but that it would likely be limited in scope if it does.
Referring to small-scale “border movements,” the report quoted the unnamed officials as saying that for Israel to fulfill its new war aim of enabling around 60,000 displaced northern residents to return home, decapitating the Hezbollah leadership will not be enough.
In order to achieve that goal, the IDF is damaging Hezbollah’s command and control, destroying its capabilities in the border area, and removing the threat of an invasion planned by the group’s Radwan Force.
From its side, The New York Times said that Israel has been working since the conclusion of the Second Lebanon War in 2006 to build up a formidable intelligence apparatus that deeply penetrated Hezbollah.
The report claimed that Israel has sent undercover commandos “deep into the country” to carry out “sensitive intelligence missions,” quoting unnamed officials as saying that the military’s willingness to carry out daring missions sets it apart from other countries’ intelligence agencies and units.
While Israel has not announced a ground incursion into Lebanon, there have been some reports of incidents across the border since last October when Hezbollah and its allies began launching attacks against the IDF in support of the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip.
The IDF escalated its strikes against Lebanon last week to a level not seen since the war of 2006. In response, Hezbollah expanded its attacks deep into northern Israel, hitting targets located more than 50 kilometers away from the Lebanese border.
While the Israeli leadership is yet to order a ground operation in Lebanon, the IDF has been preparing for such a move for a while.
On September 18, Hebrew media reported that the elite paratroopers and commando 98th Division was deployed to northern Israel. Later on September 25, the IDF announced that it was calling up two reserve brigades to be deployed on the front with Lebanon.
All in all, the confrontation between Hezbollah and IDF has so far resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 22 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, at least 1,640 people have been killed, including more than 500 members of Hezbollah.
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the jewish land thieves want more land so the slobering shlomo settlers can marry their cousins and give birth to little jewish terrorists who will be taught by talmudists that they can kill their way to a brighter future where al aqsa mosque will be destroyed and 2000 year old barbaric animal sacrifices can resume on the steps of the turd temple
continuing the kyllings of these basturds by all means is a great idea.
more power to israel!
“martyr” them radical mushloms like dogs in the streets.
lol
judaism is the originial “eye for an eye” vindictive cult. its not going to make you any safer or secure, believe me. jewish amd christian zionist radicals are a dead-end ideology. they get off on accelerating end times. when your belief system is rooted in end times, you need to find a new hobby.
someone is a crying baby in this thread. hasbarats is the real idol satanic worshipper of ayatollah with allah as his satanic god
allah is just another name for god. what’s the difference between allah and yahweh?
allah is satan.
hasbarats is a pagan idol satanic worshipper of ayatolla’s a@nus
allah is real god. yahwh is fake one. that is the difference.
if allah is the real god, then this is the only pagan satanic god that glorifies child rape, mass murder, chaos, anarchy and destruction.
also: islam is the satanic pagan religion.
is your gf taller than you?
allah loves little boys buttholes, and his mentally retarded followers are ugly, and make slurpees.
allah is not a name.
and only an idiot cannot see the difference between allah and yahweh.
sound them out, al-lah and yah-weh.
allah rapes and marries little girls, sodomizes boys, and the christian prophet’s did not.
exactly.
that is just it!
your reply shows just as much stupidity.
says another supporter of the antichrist.
is there anything in the whole of human history as vile and repulsive as these people?
there is hezbollah, syrian scums, palestenian gazan hamassholes, some yemeni hoothi goatfackers and of course, last but not the least, the evil iranian satanic ayatollah assahola regime
yes, the rats in the sewers of libanon and gaza and iran and yemen.
lol
is your gf taller than you, like a lot.
yes, his gf is the one with the intact, complete c0ck
has the iof freed any hostages recently? asking for a friend
nobody in satan’s cult cares about anyone but themselves.
lets see how much territory the israeli tiktok army can hold. gaza, lebanon and west bank are already open fronts. jordan and egypt coming soon too. those fake peace treaties are going to be shred by the arab street and el sissi the son of a jewish whore along with abdullah 2 the british agent are going to be overthrown by the people. the jews and americans can purchase their way out of hell only for so long
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someone is war sore….
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don’t get your knickers in a bunch sissy boi in a dress (mushlom)
which sewer tunnel are you located in?
your time is here!
make like your leaders and explode!
lol
you can kill a man, but you cannot kill what a man lived for
you can kill a jihadi islamic nazi terrorist even though they bred like sewer filthy rats
yes i can. by kylling everyone that knew that mushlom in a dress
hey cleaner upper, this keyboard jihadi nazi is throwing his tantrum because there is no one anymore in hezbollah senior leaders who were among the living
you know it marty man!
haha.
lol
i pay israeli to upset dumb amerikunt homer simpsons
go, blow s.o.
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the israelis do what ever they want and the american taxpayers pay for everything. how can the world stop the evil stupidity of the american taxpayer?
and the limp un, cant even stop the jews killing spree. about as usefull as the league of nations