"Will Speak In Action, Not Words": Netanyahu Defiant Over Lebanon

"Will Speak In Action, Not Words": Netanyahu Defiant Over Lebanon
  1. The Israeli navy mentioned that its fighter jets “focused and eradicated” Muhammad Hussein Srour and recognized him as “the commander of Hezbollah’s air unit”. It was the fourth assault in per week concentrating on Iran-backed Hezbollah members.
  2. According to experiences, Srur, born in 1973, was amongst various prime advisers despatched by Hezbollah to Yemen to coach the nation’s Huthi rebels.
  3. Israeli strikes on Hezbollah strongholds round Lebanon have killed greater than 700 folks this week and displaced about 1,18,000 folks, elevating fears of all-out conflict within the Middle East.
  4. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected the 21-day truce proposal by the US, France, and different allies, and ordered his troops “to proceed the combating with full drive”. 
  5. Netanyahu mentioned that guaranteeing the secure return of Israelis to their houses was a precedence.
  6. “We will converse in actions, not phrases,” he wrote on X. “Let nobody be confused: we won’t cease hitting Hezbollah till we return our residents safely to their houses,” he mentioned in one other publish.
  7. A joint assertion from US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, leaders from Japan and key Gulf Arab powers — Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab – mentioned that the scenario in Lebanon has change into “insupportable” and “is in no person’s curiosity, neither of the folks of Israel nor of the folks of Lebanon”.
  8. Their attraction for the three-week ceasefire got here hours after Israel’s navy chief, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, instructed troopers Wednesday to arrange for a doable floor offensive in opposition to Hezbollah.
  9. Over 1,500 folks have to date been killed since Israel and Hezbollah began combating throughout the Lebanese border after the conflict in Gaza erupted when Hamas, a Hezbollah ally additionally backed by Iran, attacked Israeli cities on October 7 final yr.
  10. In 2006, the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel killed 1,200 folks in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them troopers.