There are no longer equivocal formulas or even doubts: Israel entered, on the night of Monday, September 30 to Tuesday, September 1Ahem October in a second war, in Lebanon, after the one started in Gaza after the deadly attack by Hamas, on October 7, 2023. The Israeli army describes, in press releases, the ground operations in southern Lebanon. “limited, localized and directed”, and intended to point “Objectives and infrastructure” of Hezbollah. On Tuesday morning, the Israeli military reported “violent struggle” with Hezbollah.
The Lebanese Shiite party, for its part, declared that it had attacked “enemy soldier movements” in two Israeli towns –Metula and Avivim– “with artillery fire”and fired rockets at a ” meeting “ of Israeli troops in the same area, located in the north of Israel, on the border with Lebanon. Lebanon faces “one of the most dangerous phases in its history”Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Tuesday.
Officially committed, on the Israeli side, the 98my division. It was withdrawn from Gaza at the end of August after months of war in the enclave. Other reinforcements are expected to arrive on the northern front, including two recently mobilized reserve brigades.
US support
The operations, in Israeli terminology, were only launched to destroy Hezbollah facilities near the “blue line,” the UN-drawn border between northern Israel and Lebanon. The “war objective” added by the government August 16, to those already in force in Gaza provides for the “Safe return of displaced people from the North”60,000 people were evacuated from a five-kilometer strip that runs along the entire border, on the Israeli side. The kibbutzim and agricultural cooperatives were emptied of their inhabitants in October 2023, when the army feared a commando operation by Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, then very present in the area.
The United States has not expressed any frank opposition to entering the war, which however risks spreading to the countries of the region, allies of Iran. Joe Biden saying to himself ” concerned “He called for a ceasefire on Monday. Despite these reservations, the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, assured, during a telephone conversation with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, who has been leading the project for this war for a year, that the United States “support the operation “, and adhere to Israel’s declared intention to “dismantle attack infrastructure to ensure that Lebanese Hezbollah cannot carry out an October 7-style attack against Israeli communities in the north.”
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