The Israeli military says its Northern Command has approved operational plans for war with Lebanon.

Israel is ready for an “all-out war” in Lebanon and has plans approved for an offensive targeting Hezbollah, officials have said.

Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in border fighting since shortly after the start of the war on Gaza, following the October 7 attacks on Israel. The confrontation is increasingly expanding, with both sides saying they are ready to go to war.

More than 400 people have been killed in Lebanon, including journalists and paramedics, over the past eight months, with 25 deaths in Israel. At least 90,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon, and more than 60,000 have been forced from their homes in northern Israel.

  • @slurpinderpin
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    -117 months ago

    Doesn’t Lebanon shoot rockets at Israel? Like pretty frequently?

    • @febra
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      217 months ago

      Yeah, while Israel has been invading and violating Lebanon’s airspace for much longer than they’ve been shooting rockets.

      • @slurpinderpin
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        47 months ago

        So not really “invading random countries” like the person I responded to said, right? They’ve been fighting

        • @febra
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          77 months ago

          Yeah Israel should have been sanctioned a long time ago for their airspace invasions. If they proceed with a land invasion, they should be embargoed by the world.

          • @slurpinderpin
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            -47 months ago

            By your logic though, Taiwan should be launching rockets into China because China regularly violates their airspace. It’s just not how normal countries interact with each other man, these people are psychos. Both sides

            • @febra
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              57 months ago

              I just said Israel should be sanctioned. I haven’t made one comment on whether the rockets were good or bad.

              • @slurpinderpin
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                17 months ago

                I asked hasn’t Lebanon been firing rockets at Israel for a while - you said Israel invades their airspace (implying that firing rockets into Israel was justified)

                • @febra
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                  57 months ago

                  Yeah, by your own logic you can go one reply further and you’ll realize that you were trying to justify a land invasion of Lebanon.

                  • @slurpinderpin
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                    17 months ago

                    I was trying to point out that it wouldn’t be “invading random countries”. They’ve been fighting

      • @librejoe
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        -67 months ago

        Are people actually making excuses for Hezbollah?

        • @hark
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          67 months ago

          Are people actually making excuses for Israel?

          • @librejoe
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            -57 months ago

            Are you serious? Hezbollah went in and gutted Lebanon of anything not of their version of “islamic” and think they are going to get sympathy. Why do you think so many people left Lebanon during the civil war (if you can even call it that)?

    • @AnUnusualRelic
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      07 months ago

      You can’t really think of Lebanon as a country at this time. It’s a territory where several groups hold various amounts of power. Hzbollah is one of those groups. The “government”, or what passes for it is another.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        97 months ago

        Palestine isn’t a country. Lebanon isn’t a country. Excited to see Syria, Egypt, and Jordan suffer the same fate.

        • @librejoe
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          -67 months ago

          Palestine isn’t a country. It was offered statehood and turned it down. Lebanon is very much a country.

          • @UnderpantsWeevil
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            87 months ago

            Palestine isn’t a country.

            More countries recognize Palestine as an independent state than Taiwan.

            It was offered statehood and turned it down.

            It wasn’t offered statehood. It was offered a shell of bureaucracy under the boot of an occupying Israeli military.

            • @librejoe
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              7 months ago

              Under the boot of an occupying Israeli military. You mean the one who had to build the iron dome becusse Arab states want/wanted to bomb it back to the stoneage?

              Good for these countries recognizing it’s statehood, doesn’t make it true.