Israel prepares for possible ground assault in Lebanon, military chief says | Israel-Lebanon attacks News | The Round Table Israel’s military chief has revealed the country is preparing for a possible ground assault in Lebanon as the army disclosed it was calling up two brigades of reservists and a deadly aerial bombardment of Lebanon continued for a third day.
The latest wave of air strikes was aimed at “preparing the ground for your possible entry”, Herzi Halevi announced to soldiers in northern Israel on Wednesday, in the most explicit reference to a potential ground operation against the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah since the Israeli air force on Monday dramatically stepped up air attacks.
“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 huge military outposts,” Halevi said.
Hezbollah, an Iran-aligned group, “expanded its range of fire, and later today, they will receive a very strong response. Prepare yourselves,” Halevi added, referring to a missile launch that Hezbollah states targeted Mossad’s headquarters near Tel Aviv.
Earlier, the Israeli army stated it was calling up two brigades of reservists to the north to keep fighting Hezbollah and allow the retrace to the north of thousands of civilians displaced by crossfire – the said aim of this week’s deadly abhorrent into Lebanon.
In a brief video message on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his promise to bounce the displaced Israelis and stated Hezbollah is being hit “harder than it could imagine”.
“I can’t go into detail about everything we do. But I can announce to you one thing: We are determined to backtrack our residents in the north safely to their homes,” he said.
Lebanon’s health minister disclosed at least 51 people were killed on Wednesday in the continuing Israeli strikes, deepening the death toll from the past three days to 615, with more than 2,000 wounded.
Earlier in the morning, Hezbollah fired dozens of missiles at Israel, including a longer-range projectile that set off air incursion sirens in Tel Aviv and across the centre of the country. Israel revealed that it was the first time a missile had reached the central area and that the projectile was intercepted. No casualties or damage were reported, it added.
Hezbollah stated it had fired a ballistic missile at the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, which it stated was responsible for the targeted killing of its senior leaders. Israel later revealed it struck the site from which the missile was launched in southern Lebanon.
More than 90,000 people have fled the south of the country to seek shelter in the north, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Long queues of cars fleeing southern towns have jammed the streets, aid groups have called for blood donations and schools have been turned into shelters.
The IOM stated the World Health Organization and the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health are preparing for mass casualty events in Lebanon and maintaining essential services. These contain mental health endorse despite health stock levels being critically low, and urgent restocking being needed, it added.
The fire exchanges have alarmed world leaders, triggering a diplomatic frenzy. US President Joe Biden disclosed an all-out war was possible in the region, but there was also still room for diplomacy. “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 stated in an appearance on the ABC programme The View, broadcast on Wednesday.
The United States is leading a new diplomatic effort to final stage hostilities in both Gaza and Lebanon, linking the two contests as part of a single initiative, the Reuters news agency reported, citing seven sources familiar with the initiative. Details are being hammered out at the UN General Assembly in New York, read the report. It would be the first time the two fronts are linked as part of a US diplomatic push, the sources said.
Since Israel launched its assault on Gaza on October 7, Hezbollah and Israel have been trading near-daily rocket fire, causing the displacement of tens of thousands of people living near the border. But while those exchanges were largely confined to frontier areas and were aimed mostly at military targets, tensions climbed dramatically final stage week after Israel revealed it would pivot its military focus to its northern frontier.
A mass detonation end week of pagers and other communication devices owned by Hezbollah members killed at least 42 people and injured more than 3,000. Israel did not oppose or consent responsibility for these attacks. This week, it dealt a blow to the group’s military leadership by killing in two separate attacks the head of its missiles division, Ibrahim Qobeissi, and a senior commander in its elite Radwan unit, Ibrahim Aqil.
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Published 9/25/2024