WAPO notes that Israel can't defeat Hezbollah.

A new secret assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) found that it will be difficult for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to succeed because its military assets and resources would be spread too thin given the conflict in Gaza, according to two people familiar with those findings. A spokesperson for the DIA did not offer comment.

“The number of casualties in Lebanon could be anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 and entail a massive evacuation of all of northern Israel,” said Bilal Saab, a Lebanon expert at the Middle East Institute, a Washington think tank.

Hezbollah may strike deeper into Israel than before, hitting sensitive targets like petrochemical plants and nuclear reactors, and Iran may activate militias across the region. “I don’t think it would be limited to these two antagonists,” he said.

A surge of signatures flooded a Change.org petition calling for the removal of Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli Ambassador to the UK, following her remarks that were labeled as 'genocidal language'.

Within a single day, the petition garnered a striking 80,450 signatures as the signatories demanded accountability from the Ambassador for her support of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

"The Ambassador is now using openly genocidal language and is advocating for a genocidal act to take place. The ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank continues," the petition stated.

Previously, Hotovely, during an interview with LBC Radio, justified "Israel's" bombing of schools and mosques in the Gaza Strip, claiming that all these institutions have access to tunnels. She emphasized the necessity of destroying such buildings alongside their infrastructure.

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⚡️ 🇮🇱🇱🇧 WallaNews:

"Senior Israeli officers say it's time to change military focus from Gaza to Lebanon, shift to offensive operations"

The officers said that IDF operations should be shifted from defense to offense, that diplomacy will not work, and that Hezbollah must pay a painful price & feel the pressure.

They say Israel should prepare its forces for action on the Lebanon front, and advance operational plans for war against Hezbollah.

Important meetings were held this week, and some strike plans have already been approved.

Comment: Hezbollah yesterday at a meeting with the EU, Commissioner Borel refused a diplomatic solution with Israel.

Hezbollah wants war and is slowly entering the second phase that I wrote about. On the other hand, Israel also goes to war because there are no other solutions left.

Israel has so far tried to persuade Hezbollah to 'ceasefire'. That's why senior Western officials say all the time that Israel does not want a war with Hezbollah.

🚨 N14 correspondent: Several launches toward the [occupied] Golan Heights area.

⚡️🇵🇸 The Chinese Shipping Company COSCO has suspended any shipping towards Israel for the foreseeable future.

Al-Qassam Brigades destroy enemy concentrations penetrating the Al-Mahatta area in the city of Khan Yunis with mortar shells.

Italian journalist Raffaele Oriani ends his 12-year collaboration with Repubblica, voicing his opposition to the way the newspaper reports on the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Israeli warplanes fly over the Lebanese coast.

a glimpse of humanity in Gaza

In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza and their brave and honorable Resistance, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted a gathering of enemy soldiers in the south of Al-Manara with missile weapons at 1:45 pm, achieving a direct hit.

Journalist Saleh Aljafarawi, carrying the remains of his colleagues targeted by Israeli forces in Gaza, expressed, "I cannot describe the feeling of carrying the remains of my colleagues in a plastic bag."

⚡️6 missiles were launched from Lebanon towards the Israeli radar site in the occupied Shebaa Farms

In his meeting with Blinken, King Abdullah II “warned of the catastrophic repercussions" of the war in Gaza while calling on the US to press for an immediate ceasefire.

Al-Quds Brigades: We bombed a gathering of Zionist enemy soldiers and vehicles with a barrage of 60-caliber regular mortar shells in the Al-Katiba area in central Khan Yunis.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds:
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We bombed a gathering of zionist enemy soldiers and vehicles with a barrage of 60-caliber standard mortar shells in the Al-Katiba area in central Khan Younis.

There is nothing harder than the pain of loss. We are full of humanity and they are full of bloodthirst and hatred

Israeli media

More than 10 explosions heard in the Galilee

Hebrew Channel 12: In "Israel", the assessment is growing. The strategic facility in the north (Meron Base) was attacked with Kornet missiles capable of reaching a range of up to 10 km. The Iron Dome is not designed to deal with this type of threat, so the "Israeli" army must find alternative solutions.

⚪️ Mujahideen Brigades:
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Once again, we bombed concentrations of zionist enemy vehicles and soldiers on the Gaza axis with N7 rockets.

N12 News:

⚡️ 🇮🇱Members of Netanyahu's cabinet will take a 'POLYGRAPH'

Netanyahu in the government:

"We have a scourge of leaks and I'm not ready to continue like this. That's why I directed the promotion of a law that everyone who sits in the cabinets and in security discussions, including the political and professional ranks , will undergo a polygraph."

🔻Hezbollah: We destroyed an Israeli tank with Kornet missiles at the "Rweisat Al-Aasi" site, leading to its burning and resulting in all its crew suffering casualties.