— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: Biden's senior adviser, Amos Hochstein, told the Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant in a call on Saturday that the U.S. is concerned about a possible IDF strike on Beirut in response to Hezbollah's attack, because it could get the situation to 'spiral out of control', per Israeli Officials – Walla News

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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- At least 40 Iron Dome missiles were transported to some sections of northern Israel in preparation for interception missions

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli outlet Yedioth: "Tel Aviv's response will lead to several days of fighting without escalating into a wider war"

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Israel said the same thing in 2006- this response will likely be disproportionate on Israel's part and lead to either an escalation or outright war.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- We are read to push the button to attack Lebanon, Senior Official to Israeli Channel 14, a right-wing, pro-Likud media.

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- French President Macron and Israeli PM Netanyahu held a phone call. Macron has urged Israel to exercise restraint and avoid escalation.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel will launch a number of significant attacks that have never happened in Lebanon. The response will be the most difficult since the beginning of the fighting in Lebanon." – Yair Altman, a right-wing Israeli media journalist, associated with Channel 14.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah targets have been approved for us to fire upon," – Yair Altman.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "It is difficult to know if the parties will manage to keep the fighting as limited. As we have seen, one missile that hits hard can degenerate into an all-out war." – Yair Altman.

Israeli media confirming any response, even if limited, can escalate into an all-out war.

🇮🇱 - Scenes from the Security Cabinet meeting in Kirya.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli right-wing channels, citing IDF sources, report that Israel's response is imminent.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Lebanese Foreign Minister: "If the war expands, Lebanon will officially side with Hezbollah, and it will side with the Lebanese state, and we will defend Lebanon.”

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli right-wing media, Channel 14, reports supposed Druze demanding Prime Minister Netanyahu to "Burn Lebanon! Burn Nasrallah! If you don't protect us, we will protect ourselves!"

NEW - Erdogan says Turkey can enter Israel "just as we entered Karabakh and Libya."

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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "I call on all members of the Druze community not to take the law into their own hands, it is forbidden. This is not our way. There is a Government and there is an army and we trust them to act correctly against Hezbollah." – Israeli Druze Community Leader, Sheikh Maufek Trif.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The IDF Home Front Command will be issuing a "change in directives" tonight.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - War is imminent. Pray for the people of Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Other pro-Iranian Paramilitary Forces from the region have been spotted crossing the Iraq-Syria border, making their way to Lebanon – Israeli media reports.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Palestinian channels report the scrambling of Israeli aircraft and flight of IDF warplanes above Israel

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡️- The United States has asked its citizens to immediately leave Lebanon

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Come, God willing," – Hezbollah affiliated media.