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ISRAEL has vowed it won't halt airstrikes against Hezbollah arsenic they blitz the panic radical 1,600 times to cripple it.
The Israeli Defence Force deed Hezbollah targets successful a monolithic question of airstrikes connected Monday and Tuesday, galore of which are civilian homes allegedly being utilized to store rockets.
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At slightest 558 radical person been killed, including dozens of children, and astatine slightest 1,835 injured, the Lebanese wellness ministry said.
US officials told CNN that Hezbollah has been importantly weakened by the attacks which had taken them backwards by astir 20 years.
Israel has wiped retired astir of the panic group's enactment successful targeted strikes, including Ibrahim Aqil who was killed successful an IDF blast connected confederate Beirut connected Friday.
On Tuesday, starring commandant Ibrahim Qubaisi successful the group's rocket part was killed successful the suburbs of Beirut, Reuters reported.
Bombs person besides targeted ammo stores, with clips of the strikes showing houses successful residential areas being wiped.
The IDF claims Hezbollah are hiding cruise missiles, including medium-range rockets and short-range rockets, and adjacent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) successful civilian homes.
Some clips amusement secondary ammo explosions aft an archetypal airstrike, including 1 wherever a rocket shoots into the neighbouring home.
The US is besides disquieted that Iran could intervene arsenic Israel keeps up the attacks.
One authoritative said: "Tehran has not intervened yet, but they volition if they judge they are astir to suffer their astir almighty proxy force.
"We are the closest we’ve been to spiralling to a determination war."
Watch infinitesimal Israeli blitz destroys Hezbollah rocket basal hidden successful ‘civilian’ location sending rocket flying retired of rubble
Iran has not ruled retired coming to the assistance of its proxy successful Lebanon saying that Israel was "armed to the teeth and has entree to weapons systems that are acold superior to thing else."
New president Masoud Pezeshkian said: "We indispensable not let for Lebanon to go different Gaza astatine the hands of Israel.
"Hezbollah cannot bash that alone. Hezbollah cannot basal unsocial against a state that is being defended and supported and supplied by Western countries, European countries, and the United States of America."
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the strikes were “a proactive violative operation.”
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Halevi said: "We are taking [away] subject infrastructure that Hezbollah built for 20 years. This is precise significant.
"We are striking targets, preparing the adjacent stages… successful the end, everything needs to beryllium aimed astatine creating the conditions to instrumentality the [displaced] residents of the northbound to their homes."
He besides said Monday Israel "must not springiness Hezbollah a reprieve".
Israel warned civilians through hacked vigor broadcasts, substance messages, and telephone calls astir the strikes - giving them 2 hours to get distant from Iran's proxy.
Ten of thousands of residents fled from the southbound successful hopeless hunt of structure arsenic Israel pounded targets with airstrikes.
The main road retired of the confederate larboard metropolis of Sidon was jammed with cars heading toward Beirut successful a staggering wide exodus.
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Fears of an all-out warfare successful the portion person been stoked by the escalation - with Lebanon inactive reeling from 2 deadly attacks connected connection devices past week.
After astir a twelvemonth of warfare against Hamas successful Gaza connected its confederate border, Israel is shifting its absorption to the bluish frontier.
It is where Iran-backed Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel successful enactment of Hamas, besides backed by Iran.
Israel claims it has foiled a crippled to signifier an battle akin to the devastating October 7 battle by Palestinian panic radical Hamas.
President Isaac Herzog said Hezbollah commanders killed successful strikes connected Friday successful Beirut were gathering to program a shocking massacre.
Israel's Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israel is "not looking for wars" but warned its service is successful "full readiness".
Describing civilian casualties arsenic a "tragedy", helium insisted Israel "makes immense efforts not to deed civilians and marque each effort to mitigate harm to civilians".
Pager and walkie-talkie strike
The spike successful warring follows the coordinated pager and walkie-talkie blitz past week with Israel sabotaging communications devices.
The attacks were aimed astatine Hezbollah and deed the panic group's fighters and civilians successful Lebanon and Syria.
The strikes, which deed Tuesday and Wednesday past week, killed astatine slightest 39 and near thousands much injured.
Doctors successful Lebanon have been overwhelmed by casualties aft 2 waves of blasts - with galore near blinded.
Skilled physicians accidental they person ne'er had to surgically region much eyes earlier arsenic Hezbollah's brag labelled the strikes a imaginable "declaration of war" from Israel.
One of those injured was the Iranian envoy to the state who has reportedly mislaid an eye.
Hezbollah's boss Hassan Nasrallah said the radical intends to question revenge for the attacks that "crossed implicit each the reddish lines" and volition not halt until the warfare successful Gaza ends.
Iranian overseas ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani said helium "condemned the violent enactment of the Zionist regime... arsenic an illustration of wide murder".
Israel reportedly planted the explosives inside the pagers successful a years' agelong cognition that progressive firms successful Taiwan and Hungary.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has ordered each members to halt utilizing immoderate types of connection devices, Reuters reports.
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