Will Israel launch a full-scale attack on Lebanon’s Hezbollah? - Analysis

Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily fire since 8 October, but the conflict escalated after Israel killed Taleb Sami Abdullah, one of Hezbollah's most senior members. In response, Hezbollah launched hundreds of drones and rockets at Israel.
The recent escalations, along with speculation that Tel Aviv is planning a full-scale attack on Lebanon once it winds down operations in Rafah, have ignited fears that a full-fledged war between Israel and Hezbollah could ripple across the Middle East.
We asked Elias Hanna, a former Lebanese General, to explain the repercussions of Israel launching a military offensive in Lebanon, whether Hezbollah is prepared to respond, and how far the group might go in reaction to any military actions from Israel.
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[@DolfSmitler]

I don’t think Israel has the courage or the means to go to war with the Lebanese giants. However it may have the stupidity to do so…

[@SusanKoech-ip1jk]

Giants?😂😂😂enough said

[@Inemaatj]

@@SusanKoech-ip1jk2006. Shias are not the ones to @ with. They will go into offensive.

[@SusanKoech-ip1jk]

@@Inemaatj But they have been on offensive mode since 8th October. By the way why did the over 300 rockets, drones, ballistic misiles and other bombs fail to do much on 14th April in israel? Did that say something of Iran and Israel war? I don't know but I read alot into the failure

[@SA-hy6nw]

@@SusanKoech-ip1jkyes keep reading your propagandist BS

[@IsaAbdulRahman-fb6cx]

@@Inemaatjwhat’s a shia

[@IsaAbdulRahman-fb6cx]

Benjamin Netanyahu is not even his real name look it up to those who didn’t know

[@arshanmostafavi9621]

It’s Milkioeiwzki or some shit like that

[@user-ri4wb7gd7g]

The name is SATANYAHU.

[@user-ri4wb7gd7g]

SATANYAHU, stop killing your school boys.

[@user-ri4wb7gd7g]

Damn Satanyahu !

[@JoeBesharah-hn9ed]

@@arshanmostafavi9621 first name is Benzion

[@nonya3436]

Mr N is a peacock showing off how he played the US

[@kam70111]

Google is becoming a nuisance.

[@pieinher67]

Its not antisemitism, its anti-SAVAGERY.

[@mrtezasharkhar]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@abc-mf8rr]

Artificial language..artificial state without borders...artificial n ation in it Israhell

[@coocookachoo2806]

The real antisemits

[@promark5317]

Is modern hebrew classified as a semitic language ?

[@FloraChanel-gh3lp]

my god sooo true..

[@azibens538]

@@FloraChanel-gh3lp Revelation 2:9 King James Version 9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

[@socialdarwinism3056]

Said by an artificial person 😂

[@pachuco1815]

no nation on earth fears the usa nato or Israel at all nowadays and they all have modern warfare and nukes and help from many countries as well

[@richardharris4162]

will the US join the fight if Israel clearly starts losing, and ask for help

[@richardharris4162]

Hezbollah has not reason to negotiate and give up something, esp if Iran does not want a diplomatic solution.....Iran wants to destroy the Jews without condition and limits

[@MARKEDONE47_]

Of course they will. Israel OWNS the USA government officials. When israel tells the USA to jump, the USA asks “How high my LORD?” like a GOOD DOG 😅

[@JoeBesharah-hn9ed]

how much more do want the us and the western Europeans countries do more than they have done they are their from day one

[@wot4922]

I think they will. The Israel lobby is so strong in the US that Netanyahu actually scolds your President. Before long, US troops will be on the ground in the Middle East/ Israel/Ukraine. They are probably there already. How many young men and women will die in a foreign country fighting a war that's not of their making but a war definitely supported by their government.

[@haifatirawi1563]

They ate already in Northern occupied Palestine

[@jylyhughes5085]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸✊✊✊♥️🖤🤍💚

[@josemauriciomarroquinclima6398]

EL DIABLO USANDO KIPA JAJAJAJA JAJAJAJA JAJAJAJA JAJAJAJA EL COLMO DEL CINISMO Y LA RIDICULEZ

[@josemauriciomarroquinclima6398]

Netanyau ha creado la nueva doctrina el estupidismo

[@JJRiverside]

Y xenófobos y expansionistas... Se pelean con todos. Ahora van a decir que Hamas esta debajo de Lebanon...

[@kuramobay2445]

Israel will not invade Lebanon. Even if Netanyahu wants to do it, it's not his decision alone. One reason for Israel not to invade Lebanon: fear of Iran.There is no way Iran will allow Isreal and America to destroy Hezbollah.

[@Jayvon_Official]

PLEASE HELP STOP ALL WAR AND BRING PEACE 🕊️🌎🫂🙏🏾

[@haifatirawi1563]

No peace if Palestinians don't have justice

[@angelikakolf4687]

Don't think this is on the agenda at the moment. This will certainly be the case in the future.

[@kamranaspasajevas4650]

Lebon! Xasbolahh!

[@NarimanTheKhatib]

Can you put this interview in a normal format without the theatrics, works for a short less than 1 min clip but it’s just so distracting and hard to listen to for 10 min

[@sjmousavi8754]

He is revolting . More revolting is the way he talks. Even more revolting is his fake, horrible language. We conclude that everything about these East Europeans occupiers is fake.

[@brutallyremastered4255]

Yes, the significance of the brutal ugliness of that hideous, spitting language can not be overstated, in my opinion.

[@PJMcG]

Mel Gibson was right🥝🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉

[@JJRiverside]

Please tell me, I haven't seen the movie, is it the passion??

[@JohmScriv]

He won't do it, it's all talk to look tough for domestic audience.

[@grahamebell4593]

The dead children don’t affect me like they used to. The images. The videos. They still disturb and horrify, but not like they did in the beginning. Not anywhere close. And, honestly, I hate it. I hate that that part of me has been stolen. As much as I hated having my heart kicked around all day and having nightmares all night, I’d rather have that than this decreased sensitivity. People should not become desensitized to such horrors. People should not become accustomed to decapitated babies and small, mangled bodies. To corpses run over by tanks. To body parts carried in plastic bags by loved ones. These things should jar you. They should rattle you to your core. But they don’t anymore. Not here. I held onto it for as long as I could. It felt like a solemn duty, to hold on to that part of me that still screamed with an appropriate mixture of grief and outrage at the latest tiny shredded body. But desensitization sets in whether you want it to or not. That’s how they create soldiers, after all. I hate that these pricks have amputated that part of me, and I hate that I know it will never grow back. I have been permanently disfigured inside, mutated by atrocities, all the way down here safe in the Melbourne suburbs. And I hate that this is happening all around the world to everyone else who’s kept their gaze fixed on Gaza. All around the world humanity is being mutated. All around the world something sacred is being stolen from the hearts of good people. All around the world people are finding callouses where there used to be tenderness. And I want my tenderness back, god damn it. I want my tenderness back. Give me back the nightmares. Give me back the tears. Give me back the dry retching over the toilet, and the shaking under the blankets. Give me back the collapsing onto the couch and not moving for several hours until my system can recover from what my eyes just saw. I’ll take it. I’ll take it all back again. Just give me back that soft, tender part of myself that has been withered to dust by a live-streamed genocide. I will take good care of it. I will feed it good things. I’ll give it plenty of sunshine, cupping it delicately in my hands by the window. I will take it for walks, and let it rejoice at the children running and playing, with their parts all together and their insides on the inside. Don’t leave me hardened and darkened like a soldier. Give me back that soft, sacred part of myself that weeps at the corpses of children, so I can behold the world gently again.

[@brutallyremastered4255]

I feel somewhat the same. I've stopped looking. I have my own grief to deal with and I then feel guilty that mine is Western and comparatively comfortable but actually the sake monsters are culpable.

[@jeffreycheng5984]

Benzion Millekowsky.

[@tomrobbins5242]

I can't stand hearing Benjamin Hawking up spit

[@NaijaHakeem]

“Buffer zone inside Palestine” and not it’s not real.

[@Eiji_Kisaragi]

jordan, egypt turkey uae all have diplomatic relations with the occupier

[@nbeizaie]

It might, or it might not. Lebanese should always be ready regardless. and don't get over confident. be ready at all times. Maybe this will fix the wound in Middle east once nad for all and peace can come back to the area and all people in the middle east can leave in peace again (regardless of teir religion, etc.).

[@aar8808]

No, that would favor the Sunnis at the cost of the non-Sunni powers.

[@Mahamudu-q6b]

❤❤❤🇰🇼🇰🇼🇰🇼🇰🇼🇲🇼🇲🇼

[@MustafaAli-lb8dq]

Proud to be Shia Muslim ❤

[@kerroseir4764]

Should be proud to be a muslim I dont remember the quran ever stating it invented Shia or sunni

[@jeyrozs23]

@@kerroseir4764You are so right

[@jaferessop4412]

Relax..brother ...he ​means he is the shia of Rasool [saw)@@kerroseir4764

[@MustafaAli-lb8dq]

@@kerroseir4764 Yes but sects will be made despite of what Quran says. It was prophecized in Hadith. Only one sect will go to heaven. And that sect is not stated. Sunni arrogance says that only they will go to heaven despite of being allied with Dajjali followers. We dont say that.

[@aboshagracrazy]

@@kerroseir4764but wahabis have tried to say shia worship idols and now we see that shia’s are the ones who defend islam and muslims

[@augustsoomre4795]

Neljas Moosese raamat 6:Õnnistussõnad 22 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes: 23 „Räägi Aaroni ja ta poegadega ning ütle: Õnnistades Iisraeli lapsi, öelge neile nõnda: 24 Issand õnnistagu sind ja hoidku sind! 25 Issand lasku oma pale paista sinu peale ja olgu sulle armuline! 26 Issand tõstku oma pale sinu üle ja andku sulle rahu! 27 Nõnda pandagu minu nimi Iisraeli laste peale ja mina õnnistan neid!” Teine Ajaraamat 7:14 ja kui siis minu rahvas, kellele on pandud minu nimi, alandab ennast ja nad palvetavad ja otsivad minu palet ning pöörduvad oma kurjadelt teedelt, siis ma kuulen taevast ja annan andeks nende patu ning säästan nende maa. 15 Nüüd on mu silmad lahti ja mu kõrvad panevad tähele palvetamist selles paigas. 16 Nüüd olen ma valinud ja pühitsenud selle koja, et minu nimi oleks seal igavesti. Mu silmad ja mu süda on seal iga päev. Psalmid (Laulud)122:Palve Jeruusalemma hea käekäigu eest 1 Palveteekonna laul Taavetilt. Ma rõõmustasin, kui mulle öeldi: „Lähme Issanda kotta!” 2 Meie jalad seisid su väravais, Jeruusalemm. 3 Jeruusalemm, kes oled ehitatud nagu hästi kokkuliidetud linn, 4 kuhu läksid üles suguharud, Issanda suguharud tunnistuseks Iisraelile tänama Issanda nime. 5 Sest sinna on seatud aujärjed kohtumõistmiseks, aujärjed Taaveti kojale. 6 Paluge rahu Jeruusalemmale! Käigu hästi nende käsi, kes sind armastavad! 7 Rahu olgu su müüride vahel, hea käekäik su kuninglikes kodades! 8 Oma vendade ja oma sõprade pärast tahan ma nüüd öelda: Rahu sinule! 9 Issanda, meie Jumala koja pärast tahan ma otsida sulle head. Jesaja 30:Issand tõotab oma rahvale armu anda 18 Ja ometi ootab Issand, et teile armu anda, ja jääb kõrgeks, et teie peale halastada, sest Issand on õiguse Jumal, õndsad on kõik, kes teda ootavad. Jeesus 36:10 Kogu kõik Jaakobi suguharud ja olgu nad pärijad nagu muistegi! 11 Halasta, Issand, rahva peale, kellele on antud sinu nimi, ja Iisraeli peale, keda pead esmasündinuks! 12 Halasta oma pühamu linna, Jeruusalemma, oma hingamispaiga peale! 13 Täida Siion sinu ülistusega ja oma rahvas sinu auhiilgusega! 14 Anna tunnistus oma esmalooduile ja tee tõeks, mis sinu nimel on ennustatud! 15 Tasu neile, kes sinu peale loodavad, ja sinu prohvetid jäägu usaldusväärseks! 16 Kuule, Issand, nende palvet, kes sind anuvad, sinu rahvale kuuluva Aaroni õnnistuse pärast, 17 et kõik, kes maailmas elavad, tunneksid, et sina oled Issand, igavene Jumal! Baaruk 5: Sest Jumal juhib Iisraeli rõõmuga oma auhiilguse valgusesse, halastuse ja õigusega, mis temalt tuleb.” Saalomoni Tarkuseraamat 11: Halastamise põhjus 23 Sina halastad aga kõigi peale, sest et sa suudad kõike, ja vaatad mööda inimeste pattudest, et nad meelt parandaksid. 24 Sest sina armastad kõike, mis olemas on, ega põlga midagi, mida sa oled teinud, sest sina ei olegi loonud midagi, mida sa ise vihkaksid. 25 Sest kuidas saaks midagi püsida, kui sina ei tahaks, või kuidas säiliks see, keda sina ei ole kutsunud? 26 Sina aga säästad kõiki, sellepärast et nad on sinu omad, Issand, hingede armastaja. Estri raamatu lisad 3:2 „Issand, Issand, kõigeväeline Kuningas! Sinul on meelevald kõige üle ja ei ole kedagi, kes võiks sulle vastu astuda, kui sina tahad Iisraeli päästa! 6 Ja nüüd, Issand, Jumal ja Kuningas, Aabrahami Jumal, hoia oma rahvast, sest meid jälgitakse, et meid hävitada, ja neil on himu teha lõpp sellele, mis on algusest peale olnud sinu pärisosa! 7 Ära põlga oma pärisosa, kelle sa enesele lunastasid Egiptusest! 8 Kuule minu palvet ja ole armuline oma pärisosale! Pööra meie lein pidurõõmuks, et elavaina lauldes ülistaksime sinu nime, Issand, ja ära sule nende suud, kes sind kiidavad!” 9 Kogu Iisrael hüüdis kõigest jõust, sest neil oli surm silma ees.

[@sidikikamara8381]

Free Palestine

[@dollarisinsanicus]

Straight from the horse's mouth Brigitte Gabriel Islamic Jihadism Brigitte Gabriel on the Palestinians How the Palestinians Brutalized Destroyed Lebanon with Terrorism 10 years ago I watched tonns of clips of her ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, Brigitte Gabriel ,anyway in case you do not know her here we go with her latest The Brutal Details About Palestinians the Media Ignores | Brigitte Gabriel kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3jQmGRvbbeje80

[@Lionheart_00]

Free Lebanon from. Hzb Allah and free Palestine from hamas!

[@MariamAliAli-pz2db]

i am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 4 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 20,000 Yemenis among us, and now we owe 60,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if one of us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967736246190 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well...`/,--~«««~-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/////////////!!!!∴¤½∴¤½∴¤½∴¤½∴¤½∴¤½∴¤½∴¤½∴¤½∴¤½∴¤😢🎉🎉🎉🎉😢^|^||^^|^|°|^|^||^|^^||^^|^|😢😢=:=••[=••[[•[•[•"""

[@tareequehussain9370]

Nigerian😅

[@newsbuster292]

I think it is safe to say this war will happen, I am guessing end of July/August, during the Olympics.

[@ingriddael9746]

Ya Allah please save the people and the world. Ya Allah, we pray to those who are victims, oppressed, innocent people will be saved. No more wars. We are all your creations and worthy to live in peace and happiness here in this world. Let our children live more as our future in this world. "Allahu Akbar" "Alhamdullilah" "Subhanallah" To the leaders don't use war for greediness, power, fame, corruptions, evil worldly life, against religion to religion.

[@dollarisinsanicus]

Straight from the horse's mouth Brigitte Gabriel Islamic Jihadism Brigitte Gabriel on the Palestinians How the Palestinians Brutalized Destroyed Lebanon with Terrorism 10 years ago I watched tonns of clips of her ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, Brigitte Gabriel ,anyway in case you do not know her here we go with her latest The Brutal Details About Palestinians the Media Ignores | Brigitte Gabriel kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3jQmGRvbbeje80

[@muhammedarshak9268]

The West has to fall.

[@kentathvaprdsk]

You wish

[@muhammedarshak9268]

@@kentathvaprdsk Every evil empire has fallen. That's fact and an undeniable history. To think that it is not possible, you are living inside a bubble my friend.

[@onestar627]

If liberal order in west falls then far right will takeover west just like 1930s and this time muslims will pay similar price like Jews in 1930s

[@otisbaffo9264]

​@@muhammedarshak9268 Receive Jesus as your Lord and saviour or join Muhamm-d in hell my brother.

[@alka-xo2ho]

Where you like running to looking for refuge ????😅😅😅

[@Didigetitwrong]

Aaaahhh but god?

[@manapbakar2017]

Itamar Ben Gvir 👉 " WAR ! WAR ! WAR ! "

[@alka-xo2ho]

Lebanese gov,non radicle shiates sunni and Christian don't accept Iran's nonsenses in your country .Unite against this unreasonable acts of Hezbollah

[@greggalant7543]

Nasrallahs days are numbered, he knows it.

[@kwanchan6745]

your spelling is awful netanyahu is the correct spelling

[@dollarisinsanicus]

Straight from the horse's mouth Brigitte Gabriel Islamic Jihadism Brigitte Gabriel on the Palestinians How the Palestinians Brutalized Destroyed Lebanon with Terrorism 10 years ago I watched tonns of clips of her ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, Brigitte Gabriel ,anyway in case you do not know her here we go with her latest The Brutal Details About Palestinians the Media Ignores | Brigitte Gabriel kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3jQmGRvbbeje80

[@inshoreassassin]

That won't matter anyway he is just a talking piece anyway and can be replaced.

[@SCP30851]

😂

[@StevenWolf275]

Jews

[@_FAK_ENDIA_ISRAEL_AMERICA]

Pissrael thinks lebnan is without arms like Palestinians and talebans🤣

[@Dave2662]

The only thing israel knows is how much nasrallah loves to talk

[@musr5906]

Israel got spanked twice by Hezbollah in the past. It is not an idle talk kiddo. Now go play with your sister dolls.

[@Sammer1111]

No one loves to run his mouth as much as Benjamin Mileikowsky. He's full of it. 😂

[@Yaalah]

Israel is mandated to also end iran as a state if its civilians start dying to Hezbollah

[@RareBoor]

ничего твой израиль не сделает хватит нести эту ерунду

[@musr5906]

They can try. They cannot even defeat Hamas with the help of the US, the UK, Germany, France and others. Iran is the 14th ranked army in the world and they are improving

[@Sammer1111]

Talk is cheap

[@donHooligan]

you are man-dated.

[@Yaalah]

@@musr5906 state actors are different. 1-2 lost cities will force islamist surrender or jahanam

[@chineduokezie8359]

This guy is a Hezbollah apologist

[@mirwazzanmarri4964]

Why shouldn't he be? Why shouldn't he be on the side of a resistance group against an illegal fascist occupier?

[@StealthyRifleman]

just like the whole of US is Israel's 🤡🤡🤡

[@janinasimons8533]

Ole Netty KARMA has about caught up....

[@heidehshahsavan8824]

❤❤ Zendeh baad Hezbollah ❤❤ Zendeh baad Lebanon ❤❤ 😮😮Marg bar Israhell 😮Marg bar satanyahu 😮marg bar amrika shaytan-e bozorg 😮😮😮