— ❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: The IDF has reportedly approved military action against a list of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Despite a denial from Hezbollah, investigation by the IDF into the veracity of claims on a Hezbollah rocket responsible for the bombing in Majdal, and doubt cast by Druze leaders, the IDF has doubled down on claims that Hezbollah is responsible for the bombing in Majdal.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Death toll rises to 10 – Israeli Channel 13.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli warplanes are airborne in northern Israel

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - The first few moments after the rocket attack.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to issue a statement shortly

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Home Front Command, in the north, has begun issuing instructions to the general public, in preparation for a "massive operation in Lebanon".

🇷🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Serbian 'Peacekeeping Mission' as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was fired upon. No casualties reported.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- IDF Spokesman to make a statement in 10 minutes

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "At times like this, Prime Minister Netanyahu should be in Israel and take part in the conduct of the war. The fact that he has not yet decided to return to Israel is another shameful proof of his complete detachment and above all that he does not care about anything but himself." – Yair Lapid, Leader of the Israeli Opposition.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The response will be broad, we will go to war," – 'Israel Hayom', a right-wing and pro-Likud paper.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Minister of Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has made a statement on the bombing in Majdal Shams:

"Since October 8th I have been saying that we are at war in the north and the enemy must be defeated, and groups of decision makers have for 10 months avoided acknowledging that we are fighting Hezbollah.

Today, no one, no one, including the Secretary of Defense, who sought only to contain Hezbollah, can escape the bloody reality that we are at war.

I call on the Prime Minister to immediately convene the Cabinet of Ministers, also via an encrypted communication channel, to make a decision that I have been demanding for a long time - war in the north now!"

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- An information center has been opened at Rambam Hospital for citizens looking for information about their loved ones and relatives.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Opposition Member Benny Gantz: "The time has come for the campaign in the north, those who wait pay with human lives"

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- IDF Spokesman in update to the media: "Hezbollah bears responsibility for the killing of innocent children - this is a very serious incident and we will act accordingly."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will depart the United States at 7:30PM EST for Israel following the bombing in Majdal Shams.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for the assassination of Hezbollah General-Secretary Hassan Nasrallah following the bombing of Majdal Shams

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew Channel 13 says that the United States asked Israel to "not respond excessively" to the bombing of Majdal Shams, and avoid an escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.