Netanyahu: Israel May Have to Operate in Lebanon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that there is “reasonable possibility” Israel will have to “operate in Lebanon” to neutralize Hizbullah's alleged “attack tunnels.”
"We are denying our enemies the tunnels weapon in a systematic, determined manner and we will do whatever it takes," Netanyahu told 25 foreign ambassadors at a briefing near Lebanon’s border.
"This operation is just the beginning, but when it ends, the tunnel weapon Hizbullah invested in will no longer be effective," he added.
"Anyone who attacks us, his blood will be on his own head. Hizbullah and Hamas know this," Netanyahu added.
"I told the ambassadors they must unequivocally condemn the aggression and increase the sanctions against these elements (Hizbullah and Hamas)," he told reporters afterwards.
Netanyahu also said Israel plans to demand a response from the international community at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council called for by Israel.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu told U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres that "he expects the U.N. to strongly condemn the violation of Israel's sovereignty", according to his office's Twitter account.
A senior Israeli intelligence official meanwhile explained Netanyahu decided to tour the operation's area with the ambassadors "to create diplomatic legitimization for further action down the road -- if and when we need it."
"We're trying to de-legitimize Hizbullah," he explained. "They infiltrated our territory. We're convening the Security Council at the end of the week or early next week, and we'll start applying the same pressure we put on Hamas -- not just against the tunnels, but also to make it clear this is a terror organization that is here to kill civilians."
expantion of Israel and extremination of the cristhianity
www.liberty05.com/civilwar/civil5.html
big oportunity to atack the cristhians!!!
www.executedtoday.com/2014/10/13/1990-the-october-13-massacre/
"the Jews are the killers of cristhians in Levant"
Learn to spell - Christians
Is that why the Christians in Israel, are the only community in the whole of the Middle East that is thriving and increasing in numbers?, and living in complete religious freedom?
chrisrushlasu.......Israel was defeated last time it attacked Hezbullah.
Is that why Nassrallah has been hiding in his bunker for the last 12 years?
@chrisrushlau stick to the facts
Israel
IDF: 121 killed. Civilians Dead: 46 at least 19 of them were Arabs
Lebanon
Hezbollah killed 500. Civilians Dead: 700
Hassan Nasrallah said in a interview with Lebanon's New TV station that he would not have ordered the July 11 2006 cross border operation if he had known it would lead to such a war. He's either an idiot, a liar or receive orders firm Iran he could not refuse. On June 28 2006 Israel launched a war on Gaza after Hamas killed two soldiers and kidnapped one. The war on Gaza was still on when Hezballah launched the cross-border raid killing 8 soldiers and capturing 2. But Nasrallah still wants you to believe that he didn't know what he was doing will a war. He knows how gullible you are.
Whose ports were under siege? Whose airport was bombed and shut down? Israel or Lebanon?
If that's victory then I don't know what defeat is!!!
the only LIAR is hassan nasrallah when he promised the Lebanese during the last leaders meeting before the war a calm summer. and when he claimed that he didn't know that the cross border operation would leads to war even though gaza was being destroyed for a lesser operation from hammas. instead of lashing out like a spoiled child you could have looked it up yourself.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1525593/Teheran-fund-pays-war-compensation-to-Hizbollah-families.html