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Israel plans ground operation in southern Lebanon, US official confirms

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Israeli battle tanks gather at the Israeli-Lebanese border on September 28, 2024. © Global Look Press / Ilia Yefimovich.

Israel is reportedly preparing to launch a limited ground operation in southern Lebanon, according to a senior US official speaking to ABC News on Saturday.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) aim to move into the region, though details of the operation, including its scale and timing, remain undisclosed.

Earlier in the week, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, IDF Chief of Staff, hinted at the potential operation during a briefing with troops stationed near Israel’s northern border. He stated that the recent airstrikes targeting Hezbollah positions in Lebanon were intended to pave the way for a possible ground maneuver. “You will go in, destroy the enemy, and dismantle their infrastructure,” Halevi told the soldiers, explaining that Hezbollah had allegedly fortified villages with underground facilities and military launch sites.

The tension between Israel and Hezbollah has escalated over the past year, as the militia continues to back the Palestinian cause amidst Israel’s military campaign against Hamas.

Airstrikes over the last week in southern Lebanon have reportedly killed 1,300 people, according to Lebanese health officials, and have severely damaged Hezbollah’s military communication networks.

The report of the planned incursion follows the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in a major Israeli airstrike on the group’s headquarters in Beirut.

The death of Nasrallah, confirmed by the militia on Saturday, has left the group without a named successor. Israel claims that its recent offensive has eliminated nearly all of Hezbollah’s top military leadership.

In response to Nasrallah’s death, Washington praised the strike as “justice” for his involvement in attacks that killed thousands of civilians, including Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese. While reaffirming its support for Israel’s right to defend itself, the US also called for efforts to de-escalate the conflict.

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  1. The Israelis will go further north, beyond the northern border of Lebanon.
    When they have finished with that, then they’ll go after Jordan, and part of Syria simultaneously.
    Egypt will cede land including the Suez Canal, while Israel cuts a new canal across northern Gaza…
    Saudi Arabia will cede it’s western boundary to Israel in a deal ie; ‘Land for Premium 100 Year Oil Sales’ to keep Israel (IF it still exists) well supplied with oil and gas.
    The West will remain as Zionist vassal states under Noahide and Talmudic Law, and will see a genocide caused and enacted by Israel that will make the Gaza, Lebanese and West Bank genocides pale in comparison.
    The Zionist Talmudic J3w$ are the problem, and have been for centuries, and will continue to be so until the populations get out from under their systems of control.
    https://www.infowars.com/posts/alex-jones-breaks-down-foreign-control-of-america-and-the-aipac-mafia/
    https://nobulart.com/hidden-history-of-the-incredibly-evil-khazarian-mafia/
    Those in the West had better start supporting Russia as the Russians fight against the entire world take-over of the Talmudic Zionists in the Ukraine (Khazaria).
    Putin needs to free himself totally from any and all J3wi$h influences and contacts that he currently has in order to put an end to Global Talmudic Noahide Zionism and the hell that it has wreaked upon the world!!!

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