Israel warns of Lebanon line threat: "The hour glass is running out for a political settlement"

 

MITHILA RAHMAN TUSI

Israeli government serving Benny Gantz, one of three men who created the country's Crisis Warfare Bureau, is taking steps to increase Israeli military activity along the Israel-Lebanon line, where Hezbollah insurgents are closing in on northern Israel.

"I need to share with the world: the situation on the northern border needs to change," Gantz said in a public interview late Wednesday, adding that occupiers of the line network who were vacated by the war should return to them. house

"The hourglass is running out for a political settlement. Given the opportunity for the world and the Lebanese administration to stop firing into Israel and not try to isolate Hezbollah from the border, the IDF (Israel Guard Powers) will. As such," Gantz said.

IDF representative Daniel Hagari said that Israeli forces had "high regard" for expanding the war in the north but that "the main task is to return the occupiers home with a sense of security, and that will take time."

Israel's estranged pastor, Eli Cohen, visited Israel's northern line on Wednesday and said that Hezbollah should consider the 2006 ceasefire approaching the gathering to withdraw from the border region or that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah "should understand that he has come directly," according to the Associated Press. reported

"We will work to take advantage of strategic choices," Cohen said. "If it doesn't work, all options are on the table."

The Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah has been firing rockets and big guns and has consistently sent drones to Lebanon's border with Israel on behalf of Hamas since the conflict began on October 7.

Israel additionally entered Lebanon, killing north of 150 people there, mainly Hezbollah aggressors, as indicated by the AFP news agency. Fewer than 20 have become regular citizens, and three of them have been writers, AFP reports.

On the Israeli side of the Lebanon line, nine fighters and four civilians were killed in the attack, according to AFP.

During this period, Israeli forces conducted short-term sieges of areas across Gaza, killing many people. 21,000 people have been killed so far north of the threat, according to Hamas-run forces, and 85% of the population has been displaced.

Palestinians fleeing increased Israeli operations in the focal Gaza have topped the covers near the line with Egypt, and the United Nations Assistance Office has said extreme fighting in the region is hampering its ability to deliver aid.

The United Nations said the World Food Program had figured out how to contact nearly half a million people with food bundles between December 23 and 26, yet UNRWA, the agency working inside the Gaza Strip, said Thursday that 40% of people there are currently at risk. starvation

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