Israel has begun to pound Hezbollah targets within Southern Lebanon. Frankly, they’ve had enough of the terror group’s constant rocket attacks against Israeli cities, displacing over 60,000 residents in the north.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he addressed the critical situation, stated:

On October 7th, the Hamas terrorist monsters burst into Israel, murdered our people, raped and beheaded our women, burnt babies alive, and took 255 innocent people hostage, including many Americans.

A day later, on October 8th, another Iranian terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, attacked Israel completely unprovoked. They fired missiles and rockets into our cities. They made 60,000 Israelis leave their homes along the Lebanon border, becoming refugees in their own land. 

In the subsequent months, they haven’t stopped for a single day attacking us. 

No country can accept the wanton rocketing of its cities. We can’t accept it either. 

We will take whatever action is necessary to restore security and to bring our people safe back to their homes.

No country would tolerate non-stop rocket attacks on its civilians. Israel is determined to put an end to it, and Israel means business.

I’m sure you’ve all heard by now of the events of last week when approximately 4,000 pagers and radios of Hezbollah commanders were blown up by Israel. Dozens were killed, and Lebanon’s hospitals were flooded with thousands of injured Hezbollah members, with some blinded by the blast.

Israel then launched another attack on Hezbollah last Friday with an airstrike in Beirut, which fired four missiles, killing Ibrahim Aqil and 15 other senior Radwan Force commanders. Hezbollah, of course, is in shock, stunned by what has happened, giving Israel a perfect opportunity to pound Hezbollah targets within Southern Lebanon.

IDF Spokesperson Admiral Daniel Hagari said this concerning the situation:

About an hour ago, following indications that Hezbollah was preparing to fire towards Israeli territory, we began conducting extensive strikes on terrorist targets throughout Lebanon. The Hezbollah terrorist organization has been continuously launching attacks on Israeli civilians and has no plans to stop.

[In] Southern Lebanon, there are dozens of Lebanese Villages situated along approximately 80 kilometers of the border with Israel. For over 20 years, Hezbollah has deployed its arms inside homes and militarized civilian infrastructure. As a result, the Hezbollah terrorist organization has turned Southern Lebanon into a battlefield.

[Within villages] in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah stores cruise missiles, rocket launchers, and UAVs inside civilian homes, hidden behind the Lebanese population living in the village. We are monitoring these activities, locating the weapons, and destroying them with precise intelligence-based strikes…

Shortly, the IDF will engage in extensive, precise strikes against terror targets, which have been embedded widely throughout Lebanon. We ask residents of Lebanese villages to pay attention to the message and warning published by the IDF and heed them. This is an advanced warning for your own safety and the safety of your family.

We advise civilians from Lebanese villages located in and next to buildings and areas used by Hezbollah for military purposes, such as those used to store weapons, to immediately move out of harm’s way for their own safety. I want to repeat: move out of harm’s way immediately. Hezbollah is endangering you and your families.

On October 8th, the Hezbollah terrorist organization decided to join Hamas’ war against Israel. Hezbollah’s activities are dragging Lebanon and the entire region into a wider escalation, and Hassan Nasrallah is responsible for this. Over the last 11 months, we have been operating to degrade the Hezbollah terrorist organization’s capabilities and push back Hezbollah operatives and military assets away from Israel.

We are operating to achieve all of our goals of the war in Gaza to dismantle Hamas and bring back home all the hostages and in the north to repeal the threat opposed by Hezbollah and enable the residents from the North of Israel safely to return to their homes. The IDF is operating and will continue to operate in defense of the citizens of Israel wherever required. Civilians being warned to leave Southern Lebanon are doing just that, as Israel vows to destroy Hezbollah rockets and launch sites.

The solution is very simple: Nasrallah needs to stop the rocket attacks and retreat north of the Litani River. By the way, Hezbollah was not supposed to be operating south of the Litani River under UN resolution 1701 after the 2006 Lebanon war. That retreat didn’t happen, and something tells me that Nasrallah is not going to do that due to his Islamic pride and, ultimately, his orders from Iran—the head of the snake.

Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” is hellbent on wiping Israel off the face of the map. He recently called Israel an “evil cancerous tumor.”

We need to be praying for Israel. Hezbollah has over 150,000 rockets aimed at the Jewish State, and we’ve yet to see Hezbollah use the precision-guided weapons they claim they have. If they’re truly capable of hitting anywhere in Israel, things could get ugly really quickly. We must keep praying for the Peace of Jerusalem.

What does God have to say about all of this? In Genesis 12:3, God says, “I will bless those that bless thee,” speaking of the Jewish people, “and I will curse those that curse thee.” Khamenei, Sinwar, and Nasrallah ought to tremble and take close note of how precise God’s word is. The last time I checked, all the nations in the past that have come against God’s chosen people have vanished from the world scene. The ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, ancient Persians, ancient Greeks, the Romans, and, of course, the Nazis are all gone. They’ve vanished, but where are God’s chosen people? Right back in the land that God swore as an everlasting possession to the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Woe unto all those who are trying to wipe Israel off the face of the map! Just like what happened to Haman in the book of Esther, the same fate will surely come upon you.

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Robert Gottselig is the Director of The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry Canada and the host of ‘In News Surrounding Israel’ and Cruizin’ For Zion.

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