In October, journalists from leading mainstream media outlets embedded with the Israeli Defense Forces on tours in Lebanon. But when Hezbollah threatened legal action against the journalists, they all abandoned ship — and a month later, none have returned.
The IDF organized the tours on September 30, October 11, and October 13 to expose Hezbollah’s vast terror infrastructure. Reporters were given a firsthand look at tunnels and weapons caches hidden in villages, and other Hezbollah resources Israel faces as it attempts to dismantle the terrorist group.
Among the outlets represented during the 90 to 120-minute visits were the BBC, CNN, Fox News, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Reuters.
On October 12, BBC reporter Lucy Williamson <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80r9zyk89yo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a report</a> titled, “Inside Israel’s combat zone in southern Lebanon” about what she witnessed. In response, on October 14, Hezbollah condemned the BBC, accusing it of violating Lebanon’s sovereignty and calling for legal action against the outlet and its staff in Lebanon.
“Not only did the BBC, across all its platforms and languages, display blatant bias towards the killers and criminals, justifying the Zionist barbarism against the Palestinian and Lebanese people, but it also shamelessly sent a team of journalists who entered one of the southern villages accompanied by the occupying army, violating Lebanese territory, sovereignty, and laws, as shown in the reports published by the organization,” Hezbollah wrote.
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“Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office denounces this unjustifiable and unacceptable move as it calls on the Ministry of Information, the National Media Council, and relevant judicial and security authorities to take legal action against the BBC and its teams operating in Lebanon,” the statement added.
A subsequent statement <a href="https://daraj.media/en/journalists-accompanying-israeli-occupation-forces-in-southern-lebanon-where-do-ethical-and-professional-boundaries-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly expanded</a> the condemnation to all outlets that participated.
An Israeli government official granted anonymity told The Daily Wire that several reporters said they could no longer participate in the tours for fear of the safety of their colleagues working in Lebanon. Not a single mainstream outlet has accepted an invitation to embed since Hezbollah issued its letter, but many are requesting access to travel to Gaza with the IDF, according to the source.
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Following the BBC report, seven BBC Arabic employees suspended their work in protest over their colleague’s participation in the tour, <a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/2231946" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hezbollah-run outlet Al-Manar</a> reported.
The employees, Sanaa al-Khoury, Mohammad Hamdar, Marie-Josee Azzi, and Joy Slim, and three others from the BBC Extra team, reportedly refused to return to work unless the BBC issued an apology or disciplined their colleagues who were embedded with the IDF. The BBC has not issued a formal apology or stated that they disciplined the team that entered Lebanon through Israel.
The Media Secretariat of the Lebanese Popular Conference urged the Lebanese government “to halt the operations of the BBC team in Lebanon due to its cooperation with the Zionist enemy forces and its violation of Lebanese laws and national sovereignty,” <a href="https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/16/735377/bbc-fox-news-line-fire-embedding-journalists-south-lebanon-israeli-army" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Iranian regime-run outlet, PressTV.
&#8220;Reuters appreciates the concerns expressed by Lebanon’s Ministry of Information,&#8221; a Reuters spokesperson told the Daily Wire. &#8220;We are committed to covering the conflict between Israel and Lebanon in an independent, unbiased and reliable way in keeping with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles, as we do around the world.&#8221;
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Israeli Forces Highlight Alleged Hamas Infrastructure In Northern Gaza

How Hezbollah Scared Journalists Out Of Embedding With The IDF In Lebanon

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The Israel Defense Forces declassified information on Monday giving up a location where the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization is allegedly storing $500 million in cash and gold.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a video that the money was being stored in a secret bunker that belonged to the group&#8217;s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
The IDF had no plans of hitting the bunker, which is located under the al-Sahel hospital, he said.
&#8220;The bunker was deliberately placed under a hospital, and it holds more than half a billion dollars in cash and gold,&#8221; Hagari said. &#8220;That money could have been used to rehabilitate Lebanon, but it went to rehabilitate Hezbollah.&#8221;
He said that Hezbollah&#8217;s financial network relies on getting direct payments from Iran and factories that it has built in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Turkey.
Hezbollah also relies on <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10703">criminal activity</a> around the world, including hubs in Africa and Latin America.
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A 2022 Europol <a href="https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/Tesat_Report_2022_0.pdf">report</a> stated, “The network of collaborators built by Hezbollah in the EU is suspected of managing the transportation and distribution of illegal drugs into the EU, dealing with firearms trafficking and running professional money laundering operations.”
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“Tonight, I am going to declassify intelligence on a site that we did not strike—where Hezbollah has millions of dollars in gold and cash—in Hassan Nasrallah’s bunker. Where is the bunker located? Directly under Al-Sahel Hospital in the heart of Beirut.”
Listen to IDF Spox.… <a href="https://t.co/SjMZQpKqoJ">pic.twitter.com/SjMZQpKqoJ</a>
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Hezbollah propagandists working in the media went to the hospital and claimed that there was no money there as they showed images of hospital beds and other medical equipment.
IDF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani released a statement on Tuesday providing instructions to the journalists on how to get to the bunker.
&#8220;One of the entrances to the bunker, containing more than half a billion dollars in gold and dollars, is on the eastern side of the basement of the Al-Ahmedi building, located south of the Al-Sahel hospital,&#8221; he posted on X. &#8220;The basement is on the second floor down (level -2).&#8221;
&#8220;It is important to note that it is possible the entrance is hidden by various means in order to make it difficult to find,&#8221; he added.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu encouraged the people of Lebanon this week to take their country back from Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist organization that has effectively taken over the country.
Netanyahu made the remarks as Israel continues ground operations in southern Lebanon to eliminate the terrorist group along Israel&#8217;s northern border so tens of thousands of Israelis can return to their homes.
He delivered a similar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-iran-will-be-free-from-islamic-regime-a-lot-sooner-than-people-think">message</a> to the people of Iran last week where he promised them that they would be free from tyranny sooner than many think.
&#8220;Lebanon was once known for its tolerance, for its beauty,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Today, it&#8217;s a place of chaos, a place of war. Israel withdrew from Lebanon 25 years ago.&#8221;
&#8220;But the country that actually conquered Lebanon is not Israel,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s Iran. Iran, which finances and arms Hezbollah to serve Iran&#8217;s interests at Lebanon&#8217;s expense. Hezbollah has turned Lebanon into a stockpile of ammunition weapons and a forward Iranian military base.&#8221;
He noted that Hezbollah joined Hamas&#8217; war against Israel the day after Hamas launched its unprecedented infiltration into Israel on October 7 where they subsequently massacred 1,200 people, wounded thousands more, and took hundreds hostage.
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&#8220;[Hezbollah] has since fired over 8,000 missiles at Israel, killing civilians without distinction—Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Israel has decided to put an end to this. We&#8217;ve decided to do whatever is necessary to return our people safely to their homes. Israel has a right to defend itself. Israel also has a right to win! And Israel will win!&#8221;
In addition to killing Hezbollah&#8217;s leader, Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, Netanyahu revealed that Israel&#8217;s military has also killed Nasrallah&#8217;s replacement and the replacement of his replacement.
His remarks come as Israel has virtually eliminated Hezbollah&#8217;s entire senior officer corps, having killed hundreds of senior and mid-level commanders, including the group&#8217;s top leaders.
&#8220;Today, Hezbollah is weaker than it has been for many many years,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now you, the Lebanese people, you stand at a significant crossroads. It is your choice. You can now take back your country. You can return it to a path of peace and prosperity.&#8221;
&#8220;If you don’t, Hezbollah will continue to try to fight Israel from densely populated areas at your expense,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t care if Lebanon is dragged into a wider war. Christians, Druze, Muslims—Sunnis and Shiites—all of you are suffering because of Hezbollah&#8217;s futile war against Israel.&#8221;
To all the mothers and fathers of Lebanon, he asked them if they wanted a better future for their sons and daughters.
&#8220;I know you want a better future for your children,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There is a better way. A better way for your children, for your cities, for your villages, for your country. You deserve to restore Lebanon to its days of tranquility; you deserve a Lebanon that is different.&#8221;
&#8220;Don&#8217;t let these terrorists destroy your future any more than they&#8217;ve already done,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Stand up and take your country back. You have an opportunity that hasn&#8217;t existed in decades. An opportunity to take care of the future of your children and grandchildren. You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza. It doesn&#8217;t have to be that way.&#8221;
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This is a message to the people of Lebanon: <a href="https://t.co/btMQR0Xwtn">pic.twitter.com/btMQR0Xwtn</a>
— Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1843694164690846055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Vice President Kamala Harris faced a wave of backlash over the weekend for touting the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s plan to send money to Lebanon while Americans were still reeling from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in the southeastern United States.
Even as the true breadth of the damage is still unknown — and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has revealed they don&#8217;t have enough funds to last through the remainder of hurricane season — Harris took to X to announce more than $150 million in aid for Lebanon.
&#8220;The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;To that end, the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, protection, and sanitation to help those who have been displaced by the recent conflict. This additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million.&#8221;
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The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there.
To that end, the United States will provide…
&mdash; Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/1842710797241434259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Critics pushed back, arguing that it was tone-deaf to send money out of the country when there were so many Americans still just trying to survive, much less put the pieces of their lives back together after losing everything.
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&#8220;This has to be fake. Even Kamala Harris, the gold standard of stupid, isn’t stupid enough to post this. Certainly not while North Carolinians are pulling the bodies of their neighbors from the wreckage. It’s simply inconceivable,&#8221; actor James Woods posted.
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This has to be fake. Even Kamala Harris, the gold standard of stupid, isn’t stupid enough to post this. Certainly not while North Carolinians are pulling the bodies of their neighbors from the wreckage. It’s simply inconceivable. <a href="https://t.co/3RWcFtGqmG">https://t.co/3RWcFtGqmG</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1842735292916138006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Please tell me there is a town called Lebanon, North Carolina?&#8221; Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) added.
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Please tell me there is a town called Lebanon, North Carolina? <a href="https://t.co/6QISAjVnXZ">https://t.co/6QISAjVnXZ</a>
&mdash; Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1842773966043115623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) added, &#8220;Can’t make this stuff up. Americans are dead and devastated after the Hurricane. Waiting for relief. Kamala’s admin has depleted our FEMA funding to resettle illegal aliens in the country and she posts this &#8230;&#8221;
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Can’t make this stuff up. Americans are dead and devastated after the Hurricane. Waiting for relief. Kamala’s admin has depleted our FEMA funding to resettle illegal aliens in the country and she posts this…. <a href="https://t.co/EcZyofb9VI">https://t.co/EcZyofb9VI</a>
&mdash; Eli Crane (@EliCrane_CEO) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliCrane_CEO/status/1842957075837780031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Yep. Her team actually posted this while hundreds are still missing or feared dead in Western North Carolina. This is rightfully the ratio to end all ratios. Amateur hour. Again,&#8221; Fox News contributor Joe Concha posted.
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Yep. Her team actually posted this while hundreds are still missing or feared dead in Western North Carolina. 
This is rightfully the ratio to end all ratios. 
Amateur hour. Again. <a href="https://t.co/VyX2ORwnUy">https://t.co/VyX2ORwnUy</a>
&mdash; Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1842887680016683480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;People say she has no political talent but it takes an enormous amount of political talent to be both anti-Israel and anti-hurricane survival victims in a single statement,&#8221; conservative pundit Stephen L. Miller said.
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People say she has no political talent but it takes an enormous amount of political talent to be both anti-Israel and anti-hurricane survival victims in a single statement. <a href="https://t.co/awwkLkuaq9">https://t.co/awwkLkuaq9</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1842742084253466970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Political consultant Noah Pollak added even more context, saying, &#8220;Lebanon is controlled by Iran and its terrorist group Hezbollah. When she brags about giving $385 million in US taxpayer money to &#8220;Lebanon,&#8221; what she means is she is giving $385M to Iran — on top of all the hundreds of billions Biden-Harris has given them already.&#8221;
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Lebanon is controlled by Iran and its terrorist group Hezbollah. When she brags about giving $385 million in US taxpayer money to &quot;Lebanon,&quot; what she means is she is giving $385M to Iran &#8212; on top of all the hundreds of billions Biden-Harris has given them already. <a href="https://t.co/Fs43WefGlq">https://t.co/Fs43WefGlq</a>
&mdash; Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) <a href="https://twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/1842732572474008020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Kamala Trashed For Sending Aid To Lebanon While Americans Are Still Missing

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The plan by Mossad, Israel&#8217;s intelligence service that confronts foreign threats, to give Hezbollah pagers booby-trapped with explosives was years in the making, according to a new report.
Numerous Israeli, Arab, and U.S. security officials and politicians <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/05/israel-mossad-hezbollah-pagers-nasrallah/">spoke</a> with The Washington Post about how the operation — which only Israel knew about — was carried out in Lebanon and Syria.
In 2015, Israel began covertly selling Hezbollah with booby-trapped walkie talkies that featured hidden explosives that were virtually undetectable and a transmission system that allowed Israel total access to Hezbollah&#8217;s communications.
Several years later, Mossad decided to try to sell the Iranian-backed terrorist group pagers, also booby-trapped with explosives.
Because the terrorist group was already paranoid about Israeli infiltration, they would not purchase any products made in Israel, the U.S., or other allied nations.
Mossad decided to sell Hezbollah Apollo pagers, made by a Taiwanese company that was well established and had no knowledge of plan.
The sales pitch came from a woman two years ago who worked in the Middle East and had created her own company to sell Apollo products. She was already trusted by Hezbollah and was completely unaware of Mossad&#8217;s plot.
The terrorist group fell in love with the AR924 pager after she told them that it was a rugged model designed to survive battlefield conditions, was waterproof, had a battery that could last months, could be charged with a cable, and had an encryption feature that would protect communications from Israeli surveillance.
Hezbollah purchased 5,000 pagers and started giving them to mid-level operatives and logistics personnel in early 2024.
Unknown to Hezbollah and to their trusted sales rep, the devices were secretly manufactured in Israel by Mossad. The explosives were so well hidden that they were not detectable once disassembled or by X-ray.
One of the most ingenious features of the device was that its encryption feature required users to press buttons with both hands simultaneously to read the messages.
When Israel decided to detonate the devices on September 17, Mossad first sent out an encrypted message to the pagers. Terrorists who picked up the devices had to use both hands to push the buttons on the device to read the message and, when they did, their fingers and hands were blown off, rendering them useless on the battlefield.
Less than a minute later, Mossad sent out a signal that forced the detonation of all the remaining pagers whose owners had not yet pressed the buttons on the devices to read the devices. The result was hundreds of terrorists getting their genitals blown off by pagers that were inside their pant pockets.
Approximately 3,000 Hezbollah fighters were injured or killed by the exploding pagers.
By the next day, Hezbollah had switched to using only walkie talkies — the very ones that Israel had previously sold to the group nearly a decade earlier. Mossad detonated the walkie talkies, which carried a much larger explosive charge that blew up cars and rooms inside buildings.

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Israel reportedly targeted the likely successor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed last week in an Israeli airstrike, on Thursday in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon.
The operation targeted Nasrallah&#8217;s cousin, Hashim Safieddine, in one of the terror group&#8217;s deepest bunkers that was <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/10/03/hezbollah-leader-israel-airstrike-beirut-lebanon">described</a> as a &#8220;far larger&#8221; attack than the one that killed Nasrallah.
Joe Truzman, senior research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), said that it was &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; for Iran and Hezbollah that they have not been able to figure out how Israel is locating and targeting Hezbollah&#8217;s commanders with ease on the battlefield and eliminating them at will.
&#8220;Hezbollah media relations has not made any statements on the reported targeting of Hashem Saffedine by the Israeli military in Beirut&#8217;s Dahieh,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The longer they take to say something, the likelihood he was at the site increases.&#8221;
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The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-bombardment-targets-expected-hezbollah-successor-in-beirut-b8df25b4">reported</a> that Safieddine led Hezbollah’s executive council, which was on the political side of the terrorist group. His son married the daughter of Qassem Soleimani, the top Iranian commander and terrorist who was terminated by a U.S. drone strike in 2020.
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“This drastically adds to Hezbollah’s humiliation within its community, and further erodes the trust between its ranks,” said Hanin Ghaddar, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “It also means that Israel won’t stop or even shift gears after Nasrallah’s assassination.”
Israel has decimated Hezbollah&#8217;s ranks, killing nearly all top officials and commanders throughout the organization after the group fired approximately 9,000 missiles, drones, and rockets into Israel following Hamas&#8217; October 7 attacks.

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As Israel prepared its ground invasion of Lebanon to dismantle the terrorist group Hezbollah, the Biden-Harris administration leaked the plans to the press, catalyzing harsh reaction on social media.
The Washington Post broke the news on Monday, as <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-said-to-inform-us-of-plans-for-imminent-limited-ground-op-in-lebanon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Times of Israel</a> noted. The Post reported:
<blockquote>Israel is planning a limited ground operation in Lebanon that could start imminently, Israel has told Washington, a U.S. official said. Israel&#8217;s planned campaign would be smaller than its last war against Hezbollah in 2006 and would focus on clearing out militant infrastructure along the border to remove the threat to Israeli border communities, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private talks between the two governments. On Monday, Israeli forces carried out limited raids in Lebanon, according to an Israeli familiar with the operation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.</blockquote>
Social media blasted the Biden-Harris administration:
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Constant betrayal.
This is why Israel does not trust Biden-Harris-Blinken. No sooner do they tell our regime of their next step in Lebanon and it’s immediately leaked to the Washington Post! <a href="https://t.co/rIqjeB97aM">pic.twitter.com/rIqjeB97aM</a>
&mdash; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1840766301666496799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Biden/Harris admin leaking the IDF plans for the ground operation in Lebanon today was disgusting. This is backstabbing an ally and putting Jewish soldiers in danger for political grandstanding. Remember this shameful behavior on November 5.
&mdash; Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) <a href="https://twitter.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1840817772458360897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Three days ago: SecDef Austin gets pissed bc Israel didn’t give him a heads up about the Nasrallah assassination
Today: Biden admin leaks Israel’s plan to enter Lebanon <a href="https://t.co/0IdT3GcXJM">pic.twitter.com/0IdT3GcXJM</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1840805465669673010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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🚨 Senior Israeli official on US officials public statements before the ground operation: We didn&#39;t like it, the leaks were a dangerous move, they endangered the fighting forces. This was done even though the US support the operation, but it is clear to us that the US is worried…
&mdash; Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1841040437605191985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s undermining of Israel has taken numerous forms over the years; it recently joined the United Nations to invoke immunity for UNRWA and its employees who aided and abetted Hamas in its murderous massacre of more than 1220 people in Israel last October 7. In addition, the Biden-Harris administration undermined the Israeli war effort by<a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-delays-sending-precision-weapons-to-israel-253f12f0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> refusing to notify Congress</a> about military aid intended for Israel, thus blocking the delivery of the aid, and warned Israel not to enter Rafah, Hamas&#8217; last stronghold, as Kamala Harris stated, “It would be a mistake to move into Rafah with any type of military operation.”
The Biden-Harris administration has leaked sensitive information about Israel before, as the Obama-Biden administration did before that.
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In April 2021, the Biden administration leaked to The New York Times that Israel had attacked Iran&#8217;s ship Saviz in the Red Sea.
Amichai Stein of the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation Kann tweeted, “US official tells NYT: Israel informed the US it attacked Iran&#8217;s ship Saviz in the Red Sea in ‘retaliation for earlier strikes on Israeli vessels’ and added: ‘the ship was damaged under the waterline.’”
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US official tells NYT: Israel informed the US it attacked Iran&#39;s ship Saviz in the Red Sea in &quot;retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes on Israeli vessels&quot; and added: &quot;the ship was damaged under the waterline&quot;
&mdash; Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1379620976921604103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-usa-palestinians-envoy/israeli-envoy-sees-historic-crisis-with-u-s-report-idUSTRE62E11O20100315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2010, while Biden was vice president under Obama, “Israel’s ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975 … a crisis of historic proportions.” In October 2012, Danny Danon, chairman of Likud’s international outreach branch, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/danny-danon-says-obama-hasnt-been-a-friend-of-israel/">said</a> that the Obama administration’s policies had been “catastrophic.”
In 2020, John Perazzo <a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/joe-biden-israels-fake-friend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delineated</a> how often the Obama-Biden administration had leaked information about Israel between 2010 and 2015. In 2010, the Obama-Biden administration, eager to protect Iran, leaked information about a secret <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2012/04/11/obama-leak-israel-iran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deal</a> between Israel and Saudi Arabia in which the Saudis agreed to let Israel use their airspace in the event of an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. On March 22, 2012, the Obama-Biden administration <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/obama-administration-media-campaign-to-stop-israeli-strike-on-iran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked</a> to The New York Times the results of a classified war game. Institute for National Security Studies analyst Yoel Guzansky said of the leak, “It seems like a big campaign to prevent Israel from attacking. I think the [Obama-Biden] administration is really worried Jerusalem will attack and attack soon. They’re trying hard to prevent it in so many ways.”
Israel defense commentator Ron Ben-Yishai wrote in May 2012 that the leaks would “make it more difficult for Israeli decision-makers to order the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] to carry out a strike, and what’s even graver, [would] erode the IDF’s capacity to launch such strike with minimal casualties.”
In April 2012, The New Yorker <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2012/04/11/obama-leak-israel-iran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Obama-Biden administration leaked information that the Israeli Mossad was funding and training the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK). Perazzo noted, “This revelation was intended to portray Israel as being unwilling to negotiate in good faith with the government in Tehran, and to thereby undermine any moral authority that Israel might claim in the event of a future military strike against Iran.”
Perazzo continued: &#8220;In early May 2013, two Obama-Biden administration officials leaked classified information to the media indicating that Israel was behind a May 3 airstrike against a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles at the airport in Damascus, Syria. Israeli security analysts said that the leak could not only endanger any Israeli agents who were still on the ground in Syria, but could also increase the likelihood that Syrian President Bashar Assad would retaliate against the Jewish state. Again, the purpose of the leak was to paint Israel as an unnecessarily aggressive, bellicose nation.&#8221;
In November 2013, an Obama-Biden administration official <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/obamas-leaks-sabotaging-israels-defense-joseph-klein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked</a> to CNN that a Syrian base in Latakia, which held Russian-made mobile missile systems that could have been given to the terrorist group Hezbollah had been attacked by Israel warplanes. Perazzo pointed out, “Israeli officials called the leak ‘<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-furious-with-white-house-for-leak-on-syria-strike/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scandalous</a>’ and ‘unthinkable.’”
In January 2015, the Obama-Biden administration leaked information alleging that an anonymous Mossad official had opposed sanctions on Iran. Within hours, the official, Mossad’s Tamir Pardo, <a href="https://www.newsghana.com.gh/israel-support-un-sanctions-iran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded, </a>“Contrary to what has been reported, the head of the Mossad did not say that he opposes imposing additional sanctions on Iran…. Regarding the reported reference to ‘throwing a grenade,’ the head of the Mossad did not use this expression regarding the imposition of sanctions, which he believes to be the sticks necessary for reaching a good deal with Iran. He used this expression as a metaphor to describe the possibility of creating a temporary crisis in the negotiations, at the end of which talks would resume under improved conditions.”
In 1982, Biden, then a senator, banged the desk in front of him with his fist at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting to warn Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to stop establishing new Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. Begin famously responded:
<blockquote>Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid. … 
This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the U.S. lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.</blockquote>

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‘Constant Betrayal’: Biden-Harris Ripped For Leaking Israel’s Ground Attack On Hezbollah

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On Tuesday, IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari spoke about Israel’s ground operation into Lebanon, noting the terrorist group Hezbollah’s plan to invade the Jewish state and massacre Israelis as Hamas did on October 7, 2023.
“The IDF is conducting limited and targeted raids along Israel&#8217;s northern border against the threat Hezbollah poses to civilians in northern Israel,” Hagari stated, as reported by <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/397018">Israel National News</a>. “These localized ground raids will target Hezbollah strongholds that threaten Israeli towns kibbutzim and communities along our border.”
“Hezbollah turned Lebanese villages next to Israeli villages into military bases, all ready for an attack on Israel,” he continued. “Hezbollah had prepared to use those villages as staging grounds for an October 7-style invasion into Israeli homes. Hezbollah planned to invade Israel, attack Israeli communities, and massacre innocent men, women, and children. They called this plan, ‘Conquer the Galilee.’”
“For decades, UN Security Council resolutions have called on Lebanon to make sure its territory is free of non-governmental armed groups,” he noted. “UN Security Council Resolution 1701 from 2006, agreed upon by Israel and Lebanon, requires that there be no armed personnel, assets, and weapons other than those of the government of Lebanon and UNIFIL in southern Lebanon.”
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“Eighteen years after 1701, Hezbollah is the world&#8217;s largest non-state army and southern Lebanon is swarming with Hezbollah terrorists and weapons,” he said. “If the state of Lebanon and the world can&#8217;t push Hezbollah away from our border, we have no choice but to do it ourselves. I want to make it clear: Our war is with Hezbollah, not with the people of Lebanon. We do not want to harm Lebanese civilians and were taking measures to prevent that.”
“We will not let the seventh of October happen again, on any one of our borders. We&#8217;ll continue doing whatever necessary so that Israeli families can return to their homes in safety and security,” he concluded.
Also on Tuesday, IDF Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee <a href="applewebdata://333F5404-0A6A-4842-BEF9-4DC1389A529D/v">warned</a> Lebanese citizens and residents not to travel south of the Litani River, saying, “There is intense fighting in southern Lebanon, in which Hezbollah operatives are using the civilian environment, and you as human shields, to regroup to carry out attacks. For the sake of your personal safety, we ask you to avoid traveling by vehicle from the north to the south of the Litani River. This warning is valid until further notice.”

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IDF Spokesman: ‘Our War Is With Hezbollah, Not With The People Of Lebanon’

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced early Tuesday morning that it has launched its official ground operation to remove Hezbollah from along Lebanon&#8217;s southern border with Israel.
The IDF called the invasion — dubbed Operation “Northern Arrows” — a series of &#8220;limited, localized, and targeted raids&#8221; against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure &#8220;based on precise intelligence.&#8221;
&#8220;These targets are located in villages close to the border and pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;The IDF is operating according to a methodical plan set out by the General Staff and the Northern Command which IDF soldiers have trained and prepared for in recent months.&#8221;
The statement said that the Israel Air Force (IAF) was supporting ground forces in addition to IDF Artillery support that was seen unloading on terrorist positions.
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Strikes tonight in the Dahieh of Beirut following warnings from the Israeli military it was going to strike Hezbollah positions in the suburb. <a href="https://t.co/lNqy2HiCql">pic.twitter.com/lNqy2HiCql</a>
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1840870491466449265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The First Images of Israeli M109A5 “Doher” 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzers in the Upper Galilee Region of Northern Israel firing on Hezbollah Positions tonight, in support of the Israeli Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon. <a href="https://t.co/H5UXVYRz50">pic.twitter.com/H5UXVYRz50</a>
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) <a href="https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1840847896662392843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
The incursion into southern Lebanon comes after Israel has wiped out Hezbollah&#8217;s entire senior command and hundreds of additional lower level commanders across the Iranian-backed terrorist group.
The U.S. is sending several thousand more troops to the region to act as a deterrent against Iranian aggression against Israel and American interests in the region.
The U.S. already has 40,000 troops spread across the region who are able to respond if there is any kind of serious escalation. The U.S. also has multiple carrier strike groups and a full array of aerial assets ready for use in the region.

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Israel Pounds Hezbollah With Air Strikes, Artillery As Ground Incursion Begins

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Israel just reshaped the entire politics of the Middle East.
Hezbollah, a massive Lebanese terrorist group that is really an Iranian proxy group, is a party in the Lebanese government. It has been named as a State Department-designated terror organization as well as an Arab League-designated terrorist organization. Lebanon has been turned into a chaotic hellhole by Iranian and Syrian intervention in the state, and Hezbollah is a major part of the government there.
In 2000, Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon, which had been used by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hezbollah as a launching point for terror attacks on Israel. Israel did not want to police that area of Lebanon after having fought to keep a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to make sure southern Lebanon was not used as a launching off point.
So in 2000, Israel completely withdrew in the same way they withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005. It turns out that unilateral Israeli withdrawals tend to be stupid and not work well.
In 2006, there was a fairly major war, a roughly five-week war, between the Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon and the Israelis. The Israelis pounded southern Lebanon pretty hard. That war was concluded with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for a demilitarization of southern Lebanon from Hezbollah to be guaranteed by UNIFIL, a U.N. sponsored set of fake troops.
Immediately upon Israel withdrawing again, that entire area was taken over by Hezbollah, armed to the teeth.
Thus, the widespread perception in the aftermath of October 7 was that the greater military threat to Israel was not Hamas in the south, but Hezbollah in the north which was reportedly armed with up to 200,000 rockets. They also had sophisticated weaponry capable of hitting towers in Tel Aviv.
Throughout the war they were fighting with Hamas, Israel had to contend with the possibility of Hezbollah getting in, a risk which would put Israel in the middle of a two-front war.
As it turned out, because of the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s pressure on Israel and the fact that Biden-Harris drew so many stupid ideas from the Obama administration about the Middle East, Israel doesn&#8217;t just face a one-front war in the south, or a two-front war in the north and the south. Instead, they essentially face a seven-front war, which includes the Iranian-sponsored Houthis in Yemen, the Iraqi-Iranian sponsored terror groups in Iraq, the Iranian-sponsored terror groups in Syria, direct Iranian attacks from Iran, and attacks from the West Bank sponsored by Iran.
Basically, Iran motivated all of its proxies on October 7 and beyond to attack Israel in the hopes of sinking any sort of nascent peace deal between Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arab world. That was what they were trying to forestall. They were hoping that by initiating a conflict, a broader Muslim versus Jew conflict would arise as opposed to a Shia versus Israel/Sunni conflict, which is the way the Middle East was breaking down.
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The Abraham Accords were largely about Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arabs deciding that Iran was a greater threat, and they were going to get together, develop together, shake hands, and move into the future together in opposition to the ayatollahs in Iran.
Iran could see what was being fostered. So they attempted to initiate a Muslim versus Jew war on October 7, part of which was Hezbollah’s activation in the south of Lebanon to shoot rockets into Israel.
Then for approximately 11 months, Hezbollah shot rockets into Israel. Between 8,000 and 10,000 rockets were fired into northern Israel forcing Israel to evacuate large swathes of its north. Some 70,000 to 100,000 Israelis are not living in their homes and have not for nearly a year at this point.
A couple of weeks ago, Israel decided it had enough — that enough was enough. So Israel initiated what people are calling Operation Grim Beeper, the single most hilarious and effective anti-terror operation in history.
15 years ago Israel founded a fake beeper company. The Mossad did this. They knew Hassan Nasrallah, who was the evil terrorist head of Hezbollah, would eventually realize all of his communications were being hacked, and he would move to older methods of communications like beepers. Hezbollah was afraid that if they used iPhones, Israel would hack the iPhones and monitor all their communications, so they started using beepers in about February or March of this year.
Israel blew up all the beepers simultaneously a couple of weeks ago, thereby not only handicapping thousands of Hezbollah terrorists, but also destroying their entire method of communication. They then followed that up by bombing all of their walkie talkies when they moved from the beepers to their secondary mode of communication.
It turns out, they bought those from the Israelis also.
Hezbollah’s methods of communication were gone. Their top infrastructure was largely damaged, and they didn&#8217;t really have the ability to do anything because Israel had such great intelligence penetration into Lebanon that it was simultaneously launching some 1,600 air assaults over the course of 36 hours, destroying about half of Hezbollah&#8217;s long range of weaponry.
The mark of a first-world country, the mark of a proper military, is not that you never get surprised. The mark of a proper country is that if you do get surprised and you get hurt, you hit back so hard that the people who hit you no longer exist, nor do any of their friends.
The mark of America being a first-world country was when we got hit at Pearl Harbor, we then proceeded to launch two of the most destructive assaults on our enemies in world history, on the Japanese and on the Germans. The mark of the power of the United States is that after September 11, we took down two countries. These are marks of actual power.
Israel got hit on October 7 in a massive disaster, the worst intelligence and human disaster in the history of the state of Israel.
They then proceeded to completely root out Hamas. But they had the Hezbollah threat in the north. And that threat in the north had been used by Hamas as a rationale for not surrendering the hostages because they were hoping that if it came down to it, Hezbollah would get full-scale in the war, and the intimidation factor of Hezbollah in the north would force Israel to make concessions to Hamas, including leaving them in power in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has now completely taken that off the table because not only did they wreck Hezbollah&#8217;s foreign operating power, they took two of Iran’s proxies off the board: Hamas and Hezbollah.
And that was before what happened on Friday.
As for Iran itself, Iran does not actually have the forward operating capacity in the absence of its proxies to attack Israel in any sort of serious or sophisticated way.
Earlier this year, Iran tried to launch an attack on Israel. They fired 300 cruise missiles and drones at Israel, and about half of them fell into Iran and the rest of them were shot down by Israel and its Western allies, including Jordan and some from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia also shot down some simultaneously-fired missiles from the Houthis.
So what does that mean? It means that Iran has basically demonstrated it is a paper tiger. Iran needed to be viewed as something exceptionally scary in the region because that was the only rationale for Israel and the allies not taking out its nuclear program. Only if Iran was scary did Iran get to continue to bargain with the United States and the West — and have the United States and the West under people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden sign them billions of dollars of checks because they&#8217;re so scary.
Israel has been pursuing the single most effective military operation in modern history. Israel has lost zero soldiers in Lebanon so far. Zero. And they have proceeded to take out virtually all of Hezbollah&#8217;s long-range military capacity and their entire leadership structure. All of it.
On Friday, Hezbollah&#8217;s leader was killed by Israel. Hassan Nasrallah took over Hezbollah in the early 1990s, happened to be a genocidal Jew-hater, a Christian-hater, and the leader of a group that is responsible for hundreds of American deaths and the deaths of tens of thousands of Syrian Muslims who are siding against the Assad regime. 
The Sunni Gulf state Arab nations are ecstatic about what Israel is doing right now. Israel is wrecking all of their enemies. Everybody in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt — although the Egyptians are never going to let this out of the bag, but this is the reality. 
All of the same people that Israel is wrecking right now are enemies of the Sunni Gulf states. The Houthis fired a cruise missile at Tel Aviv after the killing of Nasrallah. Israel waited three or four days and then they blew up a couple of ports.  While the Biden administration is sitting with its thumb in its mouth while the Houthis attack shipping in the Red Sea, the Israelis flew a thousand miles to blow up ports.
Israel is reshaping the entire region. It&#8217;s an astonishing move. Not only have they taken Hamas off the board as a workable piece in the Iranian proxy war, but they have also now effectively castrated Hezbollah as a serious forward operating base for Iran.
This leaves Iran, which is not capable of doing serious damage to Israel if their assault earlier in the year was any indication. Israel is significantly more capable of doing serious damage to Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities and oil fields than Iran is capable of doing the other way around.
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And Israel is doing this while the United States, the most powerful military force on planet Earth by leaps and bounds, is allowing a ragtag bunch of terrorists funded by Iran to fire on shipping in the Red Sea with near impunity, to fire at American ships without serious retaliation, and to kill Americans. 
One of the reasons Israel can penetrate into places like Lebanon and Iran, where they killed Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of Hamas, is because there are so many people in these places who hate these regimes.
There are a lot of people in Lebanon who hated Hassan Nasrallah. Syrians were handing out candies in the streets after hearing about his death. When it comes to Iran, the people of Iran don&#8217;t like the regime. It&#8217;s just the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the world&#8217;s largest terrorist organization, which is in charge of this terror regime, and now Ayatollah Khamenei has reportedly gone into hiding.
Israel is showing the power of strength right now. And the Sunni Gulf states are going to sign back on because here&#8217;s what they see: They see that Israel is the future. They see an alliance with Israel is the future. They see that Iran is the past.
And despite the fact that the Biden administration has blown it six ways from Sunday — despite the leash being held by the Biden administration, the slow-walking of aid, the soft arms embargo, the Joe Biden idiotic midnight phone calls telling Israel not to go into Rafah, telling Israel not to go take the win with regard to Iran — Israel has said, no, we are going to protect ourselves.
That is smart and that is good. It means a better Middle East for the United States. It means a Middle East with a series of allies who are stronger than American enemies.
Iran hates the United States. They chant, “Death to America.” Hezbollah chants, “Death to America.” The Houthis’ slogan is, “Death to America, Death to the Jews.”
Strengthening the alliance against those enemies would be the smart move. But Biden, because he is a moron, has not done that. The Financial Times reported that in the days after October 7, Israeli warplanes took off with instructions to kill Nasrallah, and Biden got on the phone demanding Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu not do it.
So what did the Israelis do this time? They said we&#8217;re not calling.
There&#8217;s no more Mr. Nice Zionist over there.
And that means the world will be a safer and better place.

Iran Declares Days Of Mourning After Hezbollah Leader Killed In Beirut

Israel Kills Hezbollah Leader, Totally Rewrites Middle East

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is reportedly prepared to invade southern Lebanon imminently as it looks to push the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah back several miles, which would allow tens of thousands of Israelis to return to their homes in the north.
The operation comes after Israel has decimated Hezbollah&#8217;s leadership in recent months, killing hundreds of commanders and wiping out all of the group&#8217;s senior commanders in the last couple of weeks, including its leader, Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.
Israeli commandos have already carried out missions in southern Lebanon in recent days in preparation for the invasion, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/30/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah">reported</a>.
The raids were carried out to identify Hezbollah infrastructure that needed to be destroyed and identify terrorist positions.
The Biden-Harris administration aggressively tried to convince Israel not to invade in intense talks they had over the weekend. The administration believes that they were successful in persuading Israel to at least scale back the size of the invasion.
Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that the IDF&#8217;s &#8220;next stage of the war against Hezbollah will soon commence,&#8221; which will &#8220;constitute a significant factor in changing the security situation.&#8221;
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The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/30/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-hamas-war-news-gaza/">reported</a> that the invasion is expected to start &#8220;imminently&#8221; and will focus on &#8220;clearing out militant infrastructure along the border to remove the threat to Israeli border communities.&#8221;
The news comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a special message to the people of Iran on Monday, telling them that they would soon be free from the oppressive Islamic regime.
“There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-iran-will-be-free-from-islamic-regime-a-lot-sooner-than-people-think">said</a>. “There is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country.”
“When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think – everything will be different,” he continued. “When that day comes, the terror network that the regime built in five continents will be bankrupt, dismantled.”

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Israel Prepping For ‘Imminent’ Invasion Into Southern Lebanon

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