❗️Red alert in Safad

🇱🇧l🇮🇱l🇺🇸 U.S. greenlights Israel's war in Lebanon

Senior White House figures privately told Israel that the U.S. would support its decision to ramp up military pressure against Hezbullah — even as the Biden administration publicly urged the Israeli government in recent weeks to curtail its strikes, according to American and Israeli officials.

Presidential adviser Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, told top Israeli officials in recent weeks that the U.S. agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s broad strategy to shift Israel’s military focus to the north against Hezbullah in order to convince the group to engage in diplomatic talks to end the conflict, the officials told POLITICO.

Behind the scenes, Hochstein, McGurk and other top U.S. national security officials are selling Israel’s Lebanon operations as a history-defining moment — one that will reshape the Middle East for the better for years to come.

The thinking goes: Israel has obliterated Hezbullah’s top command structure in Lebanon, severely undercutting the group’s capabilities and weakened Iran.

Article by POLITICO

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 The Israeli army showed footage from inside Israeli of soldiers preparing for the ground attack.

However, nothing happened overnight

⭕️ Throughout the morning, Hezbullah took 6 attacks, targeting settlements and border areas in a first such intensity in 1-2 weeks

The attacks are meant to disrupt Israeli staging grounds

- Shtula with artillery
- Metulla with artillery
- Metulla with rockets
- Avivim with artillery
- Rosh Pina with rockets
- Duviv with Falaq-2
- Ramtha and Samaqa base

⭕️ And so, Hezbullah starts Khaybar operations, with the shout of "Labayk ya Nasrallah"

They announced they fired several Fadi-4 rockets towards Galilot spy base and Tel Aviv

☠ Some of the rockets were intercepted, and at least one impacted on Route 6 near Kafr Qasim

At least two Israelis were moderately injured.

📹 Aftermath of the Israeli attack on Bir al-Abed street in Dahyeh.

They attacked the religious TV channel Al-Sirat whose offices are there. Hezbullah issued a statement condemning this attack.

📹 Footage of another airstrike in the area of Dahyeh. Some of the attacks focused on civilian institutions affiliated with Hezbullah.

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 After Israeli arrogance to ease restrictions in Haifa, they are now installed again but also expanded deeper into this cancerous body.

It will now involve the following areas: Karmiel, Wadi Ara, Menashe, Samaria, Sharon, Gush Dan, Yarkon, Shefalah, Jerusalem and the Yehuda Lowlands:

– Education to be held only near shelters.

– Public gatherings are limited to 30 people in an open area.

– Private gatherings no more than 300 individuals in a building.

– All beaches are closed

–  Work will only take place is in areas near shelters.

Pointers by @Middle_East_Spectator

❗️The IDF spokesman is lying about intense clashes in south Lebanon, and announces the use of vehicles for transport in south Lebanon is not allowed.

Photo from the attack that destroyed the road in Ebl Seqeh. Attack on road intends to isolate villages and sectors.

Banning vehicles attempts to hinder ambulance movements, people seeking refugee elsewhere, and any reinforcements

Was genuinely worried about waking up this morning and opening my phone to the read the news.

Thankfully it was a good morning which good indications hamdella.

❗️The vehicle ban and evacuation order hopes to create a massive kill zone in south Lebanon.

They issued this order to the Lebanese Shia villages from Naqoura to Litani, to normalize killing everyone and everything that moves.

This also indicates, two sinister motives:
1- Empty south Lebanon from people like this did in Gaza, making their return hard and debatable

2- Move their killing war machine towards the Litani in what they claimed was a limited operation

✡ Following the tightening of the directives of the Home Front Command - the forgiveness event at the Western Wall was cancelled.

🇱🇧l🇸🇾l🇮🇷 An Iranian cargo planes arrives at Latakia airport in Syria, carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid for Lebanese refugees in Syria.

No plane was allowed to land in the airport in Lebanon, due to fear of Israeli attacks.

The Lebanese airport is still functioning, in a first in comparison to all previous wars.

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 The IDF who launched a ground invasion yesterday, is now releasing details of attacks and special operations they did through the past months in Lebanon.

They claim about 70 infiltrations into Lebanon, attacking 200+ targets. Details below

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 The Israeli army claims to have carried more than 70 special operations in which IDF forces spent more than 200 nights in enemy territory in southern Lebanon.

In two of the operations over the past few months, our forces were injured - one as a result of exploding traps by Hezbullah, and one as a result of the explosion of an old bomb that was left in the field.

Israel didn't acknowledge these injuries as usual.

Hezbulah did not recognize these operations and there were no encounters or battles with between both.

The operations were carried out at a distance of up to 2-3 km from the border with Israel in the nearest strip of villages.

1. Laboneh area - The IDF located an underground bunker at the site that leads to a tunnel into which the fighters entered.

2. Aira a-Sha'ab area : Dozens of underground shafts were destroyed in the area in the various operations. Several rocket launchers, more than 10 ammunition depots were destroyed. Tunnels 20-25 meters deep were found there, which go into the mountain and reach as far as the village of Ayita al-Sha'ab itself.

3. The village of Mays Aljabal - an operation was conducted there for several nights to locate an underground route. The fighters also entered the houses of the village itself. They found there an ammunition depot.

A 12-meter-deep shaft with an approach tunnel that reaches up to a distance of 30 meters from the border with Israel.

4. Kfar Kila (opposite Matula) - an underground tunnel was located,

📹 Footage was released of airstrikes on equipment and so on in the border area, where the Israeli army found infrastructure.

All these video are weeks and months old, only released today

📹 Footage was also released of a tunnel system in Mays al-Jabal area, where the Israeli army found an unfinished tunnel dug through rock

It included a weapon cache enough for a few fighter

📹 Similar footage was released of an operation on Kfarlila village of a similar tunnel system and weapon cache.

These were exposed based on previous intelligence gathering, likely visual of movement of individuals and so on.

📹 An overground pathway leading to an underground tunnel was also located in Aita al-Shaab.

This area served a purpose, that wouldn't be one during an defensive battle but rather offensive. This isn't the case these days.

It was meant to start from the underground areas towards the open area then to Israel. The Galilee attack operation.

📸 Some of the tunnel in the border area that were dug in hard mountains