(JNS) Over the past two weeks, the Israel Defense Forces has been steadily ramping up pressure on Hezbollah as Lebanon increasingly emerges as a parallel front to Iran in “Operation “Roaring Lion.”
In recent days, the IDF has begun supplementing its intensive aerial bombardment with infantry maneuvers. While these operations have not yet reached the scale of a committed ground offensive, the deployment of elite infantry, heavily armored battalions and specialized engineering units across multiple axes indicates that beachheads are being formed for full-scale invasion.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz indicated the government’s commitment to push military policy on the northern front to its logical conclusion. The goal of the operation is “to remove threats and protect the residents of the Galilee and the north,” Katz said in a recent briefing, adding that Israel wishes to permanently dismantle all of Hezbollah’s surface and subterranean infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
The current escalation marks the final bell for the inherently unstable status quo established by the November 2024 ceasefire, which came in the wake of a year of...
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