The Israeli military says its Northern Command has approved operational plans for war with Lebanon.

Israel is ready for an “all-out war” in Lebanon and has plans approved for an offensive targeting Hezbollah, officials have said.

Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in border fighting since shortly after the start of the war on Gaza, following the October 7 attacks on Israel. The confrontation is increasingly expanding, with both sides saying they are ready to go to war.

More than 400 people have been killed in Lebanon, including journalists and paramedics, over the past eight months, with 25 deaths in Israel. At least 90,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon, and more than 60,000 have been forced from their homes in northern Israel.

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    5 months ago

    next up, invade random countries… don’t mind me I’m just going through Hitler’s to-do list.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, while Israel has been invading and violating Lebanon’s airspace for much longer than they’ve been shooting rockets.

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          5 months ago

          So not really “invading random countries” like the person I responded to said, right? They’ve been fighting

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            5 months ago

            Yeah Israel should have been sanctioned a long time ago for their airspace invasions. If they proceed with a land invasion, they should be embargoed by the world.

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              5 months ago

              By your logic though, Taiwan should be launching rockets into China because China regularly violates their airspace. It’s just not how normal countries interact with each other man, these people are psychos. Both sides

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                5 months ago

                I just said Israel should be sanctioned. I haven’t made one comment on whether the rockets were good or bad.

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                  5 months ago

                  I asked hasn’t Lebanon been firing rockets at Israel for a while - you said Israel invades their airspace (implying that firing rockets into Israel was justified)

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        5 months ago

        You can’t really think of Lebanon as a country at this time. It’s a territory where several groups hold various amounts of power. Hzbollah is one of those groups. The “government”, or what passes for it is another.

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          5 months ago

          Palestine isn’t a country. Lebanon isn’t a country. Excited to see Syria, Egypt, and Jordan suffer the same fate.

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            5 months ago

            Palestine isn’t a country. It was offered statehood and turned it down. Lebanon is very much a country.

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              Palestine isn’t a country.

              More countries recognize Palestine as an independent state than Taiwan.

              It was offered statehood and turned it down.

              It wasn’t offered statehood. It was offered a shell of bureaucracy under the boot of an occupying Israeli military.