The news we’ve been following in the Middle East Lebanon says at least four hundred and ninety-two people have been killed in the latest wave of Israeli attacks, as Jeremy Diamond reports in our report. Israeli airstrikes have been hitting southern and eastern Lebanon, but this is the most intense Israeli bombing of Lebanon since the 2006 war. The deadliest Israeli military said hundreds of people were killed and many others wounded, targeting Hezbollah weapons depots and rocket launchers. Meanwhile, Israeli air defenses have gone into action, with Israel firing more than two hundred rockets and drones targeting the city of Haifa and targets much further south than usual, with at least two missiles falling more than sixty miles south of the West Bank or Lebanese border and just east of Tel Aviv.
Today fighter jets carry out almost thirteen hundred airstrikes, the country’s leaders say they are deliberately increasing attacks, hoping to change the equation and we have spoken to a hundred people on the promise of changing the security balance, the balance of power. That’s what we are doing, we are destroying thousands of rockets and misses. As Israeli citizens civilians Lebanese officials say this is simply Israeli aggression. The children of the intellectual elite are close to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, this is a war of annihilation in every sense of the word. A devastating plan aimed at destroying Lebanese villages and towns and eliminating green areas.
Israel’s new Escalade Jewelry strategy in Lebanon is forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. The Israeli army sent mass text messages and disrupted radio broadcasts about some residents of the Lebanese capital. They are urging residents of southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate. In Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, though the warning focused on villages in the Bekaa Valley, residents were given only two hours notice before Israeli jets could strike homes or other targets. The Israeli military says Hezbollah is stockpiling rockets and weapons. Many in the smoky Gulf of Lebanon are now fearing that this is just the beginning. Because now the possibility of a full-blown war is greater than ever. This evening the Israeli cabinet approved a citation for special status in Israel or empowering the government to impose emergency measures, the limits of criminal activity is what a team needs clear evidence that this country is on a war footing.
The Israeli government has made it clear that it is trying to escalate the situation in Lebanon to force Hezbollah to retreat, but for now, Hezbollah is simply showing that it is willing and able to strike even deeper into Israel than before. While Jeremy Diamond reports from Haifa, Israelis should stay safe from their travels north. Now look at him and political a global affairs analysts Barak Ravi and Kim Guitar a distinguished fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Global Politics and Care, I know you’re in Beirut. How devastating these Israeli attacks have been these attacks against Hezbollah and how devastating it’s been for Lebanese civilians.
It’s great to have you on the Wolf show. The Israeli attack escalation stakes and stubbornly devastating for itself has long already been the deadliest day for the lab and itself in several decades. Nearly five hundred people were killed and sixteen hundred wounded many of them women and certainly some or many of them would be Hezbollah members as well, but the terror that the Lebanese are living in. He’s contemplating the possibility of even more attacks and a long war, half a day of terror last week when we had these pages. Your attack pagers blew up all over the country, which forced people to flee, sirens sounding, and people going to hospitals. Hospitals are being overwhelmed and so this is a week of deep trauma on a national level for Lebanese citizens.