📰 The U.S. readies to evacuate Americans from Lebanon if fighting between Israel and Hezbullah intensifies

U.S. officials are increasingly concerned Israel is going to carry out airstrikes and a possible ground offensive in Lebanon in the coming weeks.


The USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, and Marines from the 24th Expeditionary Unit, which is special operations capable, moved into the Mediterranean on Wednesday to join the dock landing ship USS Oak Hill and another ship in their amphibious ready group, according to the Marine Corps. The Wasp will operate in the eastern Mediterranean to be ready for a Military Assisted Departure and other missions, the officials said.

Despite pressure from the Biden administration, Israeli officials have remained firm in their desire to go after Hezbullah in Lebanon, according to U.S. officials familiar with the conversations. Israel hopes to create a 10-mile buffer zone above the Lebanese border, according to U.S. and Israeli officials.

U.S. officials continue to say they don’t see evidence yet that a major escalation is imminent but warn that it just takes one strike or miscalculation to escalate the situation quickly.

The State Department estimated in 2022 that 86,000 Americans live in Lebanon. In 2006, the U.S. evacuated 15,000 people from the country.

Similarly , Canada is preparing contingency plans to evacuate about 20,000 Canadians from Lebanon, officials in Ottawa said.

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⭕️ Hezbullah concludes today with 3 attacks, one that targted Ras Al-Naqoura base with suicide drones and another rocket attack towards Safad area.

The attack in Safad was directed towards Berea base as retaliation to the Israeli attack on Nabatieh city and Sohmor.

📷 An Israeli airstrike targted the village of Sheheen.

Earlier today the Israeli army intercepted a drone near Kfar Blum. Rocket alerts were sounded for sharpnel.

📷 An additional airstrike is reported in Kfarkila village, described as violent due to the size of munitions used.

📷 The Israeli airstrike in Kfarkila destroyed a three story building, which would have housed half a dozen civilian family.

📹 The Israeli army released footage of the attack in Sheheen and announced the attack on Kfarkila targted a group of Hezbullah members "swiftly" after being spotted in thr area.

Kfarkila sits on the border area.

📰 IMPORTANT details form yesterday night's security cabinet meeting in Israel

Minister Gallant: I told the Americans that we are not the ones who want a war in the north and if we reach an agreement that will get them over the border that is acceptable.

Minister Ben Gvir: How is it possible without war? How do we finish the event okay? Haven't we learned a lesson from the 20 years of settlements? We will make an arrangement and then within a year or two they will rape our wives, murder our child.

Dermer: But even if we win the war, we will make a settlement. Don't you think so Minister Ben Gvir?

Minister Ben Gevir: We will win, then there will be no one to make an arrangement with, and it's a good thing.

Prime Minister Netanyahu: If we reach an agreement that will allow the return of the residents to the north, then an agreement can be reached, but this is the rule, the return of the residents to the north. Only with all the conditions that will allow it.

Minister Ben Gevir: The arrangement with Hezbollah will bring back the 7.10. No deal is made with the Nazis

✍ Its funny that the most bloodthirsty Jew in this convo is the only one who never fought or was part of the Israeli army. Yet he wants to shed the blood of other Jews' sons.

⚠️ An Israeli airstrike in Jabal Safi in Iqleem al Tuffah

⚠️ Drone alerts in Nahariyya

📰 Israeli WAR Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel is not looking for a war with Hezbullah.

Speaking to troops at an Iron Dome air defense system battery in northern Israel, Gallant says the country is developing two "significant" alternatives for Lebanon.

"[We are] preparing the military force... and this can happen quickly. On the other hand, the political alternative is being prepared, it is always better," he says.

"We are not looking for war but we are ready for it. And we will reach a junction, it will be a T junction both for the enemy and for us. If [Hezbullah] chooses to go to war, we will know what to do. If it chooses to go to an agreement, we will respond to this matter," Gallant says.

He adds that "Lebanon is hit on a very severe level. Therefore, this burden is placed on the enemy in a much greater way than on us."

Quoted as is from Hebrew media

⚠️ The alerts in the western Galilee are non-stop

⚠️ Drone alerts continue to sound for the past 15 minutes, and the Israeli army continues to spray the Galilee with shrapnel from failed and successful interceptions.

⚠️ Alerts are now moving more south, as some of the drones safely escaped interception.

They have reached now east of Acre!

📰 The Israeli army issued a statement claiming they attacked a facility operated Hezbullah's air defense unit in the Jabal Safi mountain.

According to the IDF, Hezbullah launched anti-aircraft missiles at an Israeli aircraft from the site in recent months.

⚠️ Rocket alerts in the Western Galilee now

⭕️ Hezbullah issued a statement announcing they attacked Shlomi settlement in response to the Israeli attacks on civilian homes in south Lebanon, notably Sheheen.

📰 Now attacks reported towards Metulla and A'si bases.

🥀 Hezbullah mourns the martyrdom of Mustafa Hassan Yasin, 1992 Kfartabneet, on the path of Jerusalem and in defense of south Lebanon.

He was killed in Kfarkila, in an attack that is rumored to have killed 3, including two Palestinians.

⭕️ Hezbullah took credit for additional attacks on the Israeli enemy, announcing:

- Attack on Rwaysat al-Qarn base with a few rockets
- Attack on Samaqa base with a few rockets
- Attack on the 411st artillery division with a swarm of suicide drones. Claims casualties by attacking the soldiers' quarters*
- Attack on Beit Hillel base with dozens of rockets **
- Attack on a house in Metulla **

* In response to the assassination yesterday in Sohmor
** In response to the attacks on houses in Lebanon, including Kfarkila

✍ The Israel army acknowledge they failed to intercept all the drones in the swarm, and claim 3 impacted in the Galilee.

They fail with 3 and want a war with a group that'll fire a hundred on one day of that war.

📷 Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts or Ziqeen, and inside the villages of Khiyam and Kafrkila.

A fire was caused because of one. Ambulances are dispatched to the scene.

📷 Earlier today, the Secretary General of Hezbullah met with his counterpart of the Lebanese Islamic Brotherhood's Mohammed Takoush in a rare and maybe first meeting ever.

They discussed the efforts to support Gaza and coordination in between them.

📹 Earlier today, the Israeli army carried an airstrike and a drone strike on Hula border village. A casualty is reported.