{"id":23927,"date":"2024-09-28T05:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T05:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=23927"},"modified":"2024-09-28T05:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T05:41:18","slug":"israel-eyeing-swift-ground-offensives-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/israel-eyeing-swift-ground-offensives-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel eyeing &#8216;swift ground offensives&#8217; in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; As Israel and Hezbollah traded fire after the United States and its allies failed to secure a halt, an Israeli official said on Friday that any ground operation against Hezbollah would be swift.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Israeli air strikes have left more than 700 people dead in Lebanon this week, a fresh attack killed five Syrian soldiers near the border with Lebanon on Friday, the official news agency\u00a0<em>SANA<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>The comments about swift ground offensive come after top Israeli ministers rejected a truce plan proposed by Israel\u2019s key backer the United States and its allies, seeking to prevent all-out war, reported agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli official, briefing journalists on condition of anonymity, said forces were \u201cpreparing\u2026 every day\u201d for a potential ground invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will try to do it as short as we can,\u201d said the official, adding that the goal of is to downgrade Hezbollah\u2019s capacity to fire on Israel, eliminate the group\u2019s leadership and \u201cclean\u201d the border areas from fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Since Monday, warplanes have bombarded what Israel called Hezbollah\u2019s strongholds in Lebanon, sparking an exodus of about 118,000 people, according to UN figures. The UN decried the escalation in Israeli attacks in Lebanon as \u201ccatastrophic\u201d, warning the country was facing its deadliest period in years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent escalations in Lebanon are nothing short of catastrophic,\u201d said Imran Riza, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon. \u201cWe are witnessing the deadliest period in Lebanon in a generation, and many express their fear that this is just the beginning,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said hundreds of people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israeli strikes this week.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Israel and Hezbollah traded fire after the United States and its allies failed to secure a halt, an Israeli official said on Friday that any ground operation against Hezbollah would be swift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,17,194,982,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security_","category-world","category-international","category-headline"],"views":28,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23931,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions\/23931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}