🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Qassem: "We will not budge from our position in confronting Israel, supporting Gaza and responding to the assassinations."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Qassem: "I thank all the Lebanese for their support, regardless of their sects. This is the foundation of Lebanese pride."

Speech ended.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Explosions heard in Damascus, Syria.

🇷🇺⚡- Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulates Russia on its 'Day of Reunification' of Zaporozhye, Kherson, Lugansk and Donetsk.

🇮🇷⚡- Jaish ul-Adl (Baloch separatist group) attack in south-east Iran leaves one Iranian soldier dead.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Gallant is actually hinting at the possibility of launching a ground operation in southern Lebanon," - Channel 11.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Defense Minister Gallant strongly hinted at the possibility of a ground maneuver in Lebanon," - Channel 12.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The elimination of Nasrallah is an important step, but it is not the end - to return the residents of the north we will use all our capabilities, including you," - Yoav Gallant, Israeli Defense Minister, tells the IDF on the northern border.

🇷🇺🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The risk of a major war in the Middle East after the assassination of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah is very high," - The Kremlin.

🇷🇺🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We condemn the assassination of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah and the strikes on Lebanon have greatly destabilized the region," - The Kremlin.

🇷🇺🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Indiscriminate shelling of residential areas in Lebanon has led to a humanitarian disaster similar to the one in Gaza," - The Kremlin.

🇺🇳🇲🇱🇩🇿⚡- Mali accuses Algeria of harboring terrorists at the United Nations General Assembly.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Israeli special forces have been carrying out small, targeted raids into southern Lebanon, gathering intelligence and probing ahead of a possible broader ground incursion that could come as soon as this week." - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇳🇲🇱🇩🇿⚡- "There is serious interference in the internal affairs of Mali. We will respond to every bullet fired at us, and to every word used incorrectly, we will respond in kind," - Mali's Representative to the UN, criticized Algeria of interfering in Mali's internal affairs.

🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡- Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian met with the Hezbollah Representative to Iran at Hezbollah's office in Tehran, Iran.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Al-Hadath, Saudi outlet, claims Maher al-Assad was killed in the Israeli airstrike.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "If Iran attacks us, we will attack back." - Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz.

Israel has had surprising success with its airstrikes, assassinations, and cyberattacks against Hezbollah— but if the War Cabinet is seriously considering a ground operation in south Lebanon that could be a different story.

Israel certainly wants the world to think that this is imminent, whether or not they intend to follow through. Maybe it’s leverage, maybe it’s bait.

If Israel is planning an invasion it will be a completely different story than the ongoing conflict. Israel can’t rely on airpower and tech “wizardry” alone, they’ll have to overcome the tactical problems that cost them the war in 2006.

This leads me to believe the “invasion plans” might be a gambit to bait Iran or Hezbollah into a counterattack so that Israel can draw the United States further in before any major offensive in Lebanon. Then again, many said that Israel wouldn’t go into Gaza last year and then they did.

But Hezbollah is much tougher than Hamas.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Nahariyya and surrounding communities due to rocket attacks.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Non-stop sirens in this area due to rocket detection.

🇦🇪🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "You [Palestinians] dared to strike at a wise and courageous people on October 7th - committing genocide, kidnapping their children, and violating their women," - Amjad Taha, UAE-state funded journalist.