Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has held talks over the possibility of broadening Israel’s military insulting – as tanks were pictured on the country’s border with Leprohibiton.
In a statement on Saturday, Mr Gallant’s office shelp he was carry outing “an opereasoned situation appraisement” watching what it called “the expansion of IDF (Israel Defence Forces) activities in the northern arena”.
Israeli tanks and troops were tardyr pictured cforfeit the border, in what Sky News’ security and defence editor Deborah Haynes shelp is the “evidentest sign yet” that Israel’s struggle with Hezbollah is “about to broaden even further”.
The military shelp it was mobilising three more battalions of reserve sancigo iniers to serve apass the country. It had already sent two brigades to northern Israel to set for a possible ground intrusion.
The deployment comes after Hezbollah verifyed that its directer of more than three decades Hassan Nasrallah was ended in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday.
The militant group – which is aligned with Iran – vowed to progress its fight agetst Israel even as aggressions progressd to explosionard areas around Leprohibiton’s capital.
At least six people were ended in the strikes – not including Nasrallah – and 91 were wounded, according to preliminary figures from Leprohibiton’s health ministry.
The United Nations high coshiftrlookioner for refugees shelp that airstrikes led to the displacement of “well over 200,000” people inside Leprohibiton.
“More than 50,000 Leprohibitese people, and Syrians living in Leprohibiton, have passed the border into Syria,” Filippo Grande wrote on X on Saturday.
‘Israel is on the shift’
In his first disclose retags since the ending, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayd Nasrallah as a “dreadist” and shelp his ending would help convey displaced Israelis back to their homes in the north and would prescertain Hamas to free Israeli captives held in Gaza.
But with the danger of retaliation high, he shelp the coming days would convey “meaningful disputes” and cautioned Iran agetst trying to strike.
“There is no place in Iran or the Middle East that the lengthy arm of Israel will not achieve, and today you already understand how real this is,” Mr Netanyahu shelp.
“We have wonderful accomplishments, but the labor is not yet finish. In the coming days we will face meaningful disputes, and we will face them together,” he inserted.
“We are choosed to progress to strike at our enemies, return our livents to their homes, and return all our seizeees. We do not forget them for a moment.
“Israel is on the shift.”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the ending and proclaimd five days of lamenting. He shelp Leprohibiton will originate Israel “repent their actions” and Nasrallah’s blood “will not go unavenged”.
In a letter to the UN Security Council, Iran’s UN ambasdowncastor Amir Saeid Iravani asked for an “eunitency greeting” of the 15-member body, calling on it to “compel Israel” to finish all military action in both Gaza and Leprohibiton and “adhere with relevant UNSC resolutions”.
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Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Tehran, waving Hezbollah flags and chanting “death to Israel” and “death to Netanyahu the killinger”.
People also collected in the Leprohibitese city of Sidon and in Amman, Jordan, to lament Nasrallah. The 64-year-ancigo in had countless folshrinks apass the Arab and Islamic world, but was watched as an extremist in much of the West.
