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SvennoJ on 06 June 2024
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Large-scale attack against Hezbollah could bring ‘terrible destruction’ to Israel: Retired Israeli general

Retired Israeli Major General Itzhak Brick has written a scathing indictment of the Israeli military in an op-ed published in the Maariv newspaper on Thursday. Brick said:

  • While there is “tremendous pressure” from community leaders in northern Israel to attack Hezbollah, they are ignorant of the fact that the Israeli military is in a “dire situation”.
  • An Israeli military attack “against Hezbollah in full force could bring terrible destruction to the whole of Israel”.
  • Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and military Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi are “not prepared to acknowledge the army’s weakness and impotence”.
  • Israel needs two years to “rebuild the army” before it’s in a position to attack Hezbollah.
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gallant and Halevy “have nothing left to lose, and are ready to gamble on the fate of the country”.

More raids, arrests in West Bank

Israeli forces have moved into more towns throughout the occupied West Bank, following our earlier reports of raids in Qalqilya, Nablus and Hebron governorates, reports the Wafa news agency. During the latest incursions, according to Wafa, the forces:

  • raided the towns of Yabad, Arrabeh and Jalbun in Jenin governorate;
  • raided the villages of Rantis and Kafr Nima, near Ramallah;
  • broke into a Palestinian home in the village of Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem, and;
  • arrested more people in several towns throughout Qalqilya, bringing the total number arrested overnight in the governorate to 32.

Rescue teams put out fires in southern Lebanon after Israeli bombing

Footage published by local media shows rescue teams working to extinguish raging fires in Wadi Gilo after Israeli fighter jets targeted the town in southern Lebanon.

Israeli forces launched an air raid on Wadi Gilo in the early hours of Thursday morning, striking an uninhabited house and causing fires in surrounding homes, as well as setting a warehouse alight, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.