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Israel calls up more reserve units
Israel’s military says it has mobilised three reserve battalions to boost its Central Command defence. The army had earlier in the week sent two battalions to northern Israel to train for a possible ground invasion of Lebanon.
Netanyahu hailed as hero in Israel amid Lebanon strikes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is watching his popularity grow in Israel as the army continues its offensive against Lebanon.
“The Israelis love these images of buildings, highrises collapsing in an Arab capital,” Akiva Eldar, political analyst at the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, told Al Jazeera. “It shows that the Jews have the best army.”
“Netanyahu is now the great hero of Israel,” Eldar said, adding that the prime minister was projecting an image of a victorious leader who will return the residents of northern Israel to their homes without bending to the will of the United States, which has called for a ceasefire in Lebanon.
‘They are just bombing, killing and displacing people’
The latest wave of attacks on Beirut is reminiscent of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, says one resident in Lebanon’s capital. But just like then, these latest attacks won’t do anything to stamp out Hezbollah, the resident, who wished to remain anonymous, told Al Jazeera.
“At the end of the day they [are] just bombing, and killing people, and displacing people,” he said. “[Israel’s attacks] won’t stop anything in the south … the rockets are there, the men are there.”
Eleven medical staff killed in Israeli attacks on south Lebanon
The country’s state-run National News Agency reports that 11 doctors, nurses and paramedics were killed and 10 others were wounded in Israeli army attacks on civil defence centres and a medical clinic.
These attacks were carried out on the towns of Taybeh and Deir Siriane, close to the Israeli border.
