WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS: Netanyahu vows to send troops to Lebanon border as Rafah offensive winds down amid fears of all-out war with Hezbollah

06/24/2024

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS: Netanyahu vows to send troops to Lebanon border as Rafah offensive winds down amid fears of all-out war with Hezbollah

EndTimesProphecyWatch.com

June 24, 2024

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NEWS REPORT:

Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the ‘intense phase’ of fighting in Rafah is ‘about to end’ – vowing that with its conclusion more troops will be sent to Israel’s border with Lebanon to face off with Hezbollah.

The Israeli prime minister said that fighting against Hamas terrorists in the southern Gaza city is nearly over, without giving a specific timeframe.

He told Israel’s Channel 14 that ‘after the end of the intense phase’ in the Gaza Strip, Israel would ‘redeploy some forces to the north… primarily for defensive purposes’. His comments come amid growing concerns over recent weeks that daily exchanges of cross-border fire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah could spiral into all-out war.

The Israeli military announced last week that plans for a Lebanon offensive had been approved, to which Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah responded that no part of Israel would be spared in the event of a full-scale war. Netanyahu’s interview – his first with Israeli media since the war began with Hamas’s October 7 attack – was broadcast as his defence minister arrived in Washington for talks on the Gaza war and surging cross-border tensions with Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement.

‘The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end,’ Netanyahu said, adding: ‘It doesn’t mean that the war is about to end, but the war in its intense phase is about to end in Rafah.’

Israeli officials have described Rafah as the last Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip, and in early May troops entered the southern city, on the besieged territory’s border with Egypt, despite global alarm over the fate of Palestinian civilians sheltering there.

The military seized the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing, a key conduit for desperately needed aid into Gaza that has remained shut since then.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah said it had targeted military positions in northern Israel with attack drones, after an Israeli strike in eastern Lebanon killed the commander of another armed group, Jamaa Islamiya.

In Gaza, Israeli forces kept striking targets and battling Hamas.