Lebanon
Hezbollah called Israel a “cancerous gland that must be eliminated, no matter how long it takes.”
As many as 17,000 terrorists have been killed during fighting in the Gaza Strip over the past year.
Earlier, IDF air defenses intercepted two surface-to-surface missiles fired at Israel’s northern coastal plain by Hezbollah.
The targeted maneuvers follow months of special forces ops that uncovered staggering quantities of weapons meant for an invasion of the Galilee.
Authorities are probing the possibility that Esmail Ghaani was killed or wounded in an Israeli attack last week that targeted Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to Hezbollah’s slain leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“Why are we giving $157 million to a semi-failed state overrun by Iranian-backed terrorists? Let the ayatollahs fix their own mess,” wrote Sen. Tom Cotton.
Hezbollah claims it fired Fadi-1 rockets at the Ramat David Airbase near Haifa.
Hashem Safieddine’s fate is not yet clear.
“May God avenge them. May their memory be a blessing,” the Israeli prime minister said of the eight, all of whom were in their early 20s.
Confidence in Israel’s ability to withstand a multi-front war was found to be high among Israel’s Jews, but low among its Arab population.
Some 100 rockets were fired by the Iranian proxy group • The IDF announced the entry of the 36th Division to the ground operation in Lebanon.
A statement from House GOP leadership called the terrorist leader “a coward who hid behind women and children to carry out his attacks.”
