Israel is "speaking of halting the aerial and ground military operations against Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
and moving to the third phase, which will be a security war, and this has begun on the ground through the withdrawal of of elite military units from northern Gaza," the diplomats said, according to Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...’s al-Binaa newspaper.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth meanwhile reported that "all signs indicate that the patience of Israel over the Lebanese border is about to run out."
"Currently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are giving a chance to diplomatic efforts through U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein in order to reach a political settlement," the Israeli daily added.
Over 190 people have been killed in Lebanon during more than three months of cross-border festivities, including over 140 Hezbollah fighters and over 20 civilians, among them three journalists. In northern Israel, nine soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to Israeli authorities.
The fighting has also displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents on both sides of the border and Israel says it is keen on returning its residents to their homes even if that required a military campaign.
Lebanese officials: Hezbollah rejects US proposals for cooling fighting with Israel
[IsraelTimes] Iran-backed Hezbollah has rebuffed Washington’s initial ideas for cooling tit-for-tat fighting with Israel, such as pulling its operatives further from the border, but remains open to US diplomacy to avoid a ruinous war, Lebanese officials say.
“Hezbollah is ready to listen,” a senior Lebanese official familiar with the group’s thinking says, while emphasizing that the group saw the ideas presented by veteran US negotiator Amos Hochstein on a visit to Beirut last week as unrealistic.
Hezbollah’s position is that it will fire rockets at Israel until there is a full ceasefire in Gaza.
Despite the rejection and Hezbollah’s volleys of rockets toward Israel, the group’s openness to diplomatic contacts signals an aversion to a wider war, one of the Lebanese officials and a security source say, even after a purported Israeli strike on Beirut on Jan. 2, which killed a Hamas leader.