The Israel Occupation Forces launch offensive in Southern Lebanon. teleSUR
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00:00We are going live at this moment to the Middle East, to Lebanon specifically, where the Israeli
00:11military forces are starting an incursion, a military incursion into the southern Lebanon.
00:21This information comes just hours after the Israeli commanders conducted a small group
00:27raids inside southern Lebanon on Monday and there were indications that Israel may send
00:34more forces into the area.
00:36Israel has also conducted brief intelligence gathering raids inside southern Lebanon this
00:42week as it prepares for a limited ground offensive according to recent statements given by the
00:51military forces of Israel.
00:53Lebanon is on the table, an official said earlier today.
01:03The Lebanese army moved back from some checkpoints at the border with Israel amid intense artillery
01:11shelling by Israeli forces and also after reports of an Israeli incursion.
01:19A Lebanese army official who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized
01:26to speak publicly told local news outlets that it was a redeployment from forward positions
01:34vulnerable to an Israeli incursion.
01:38We are witnessing at this moment a fully escalated war in the Middle East following the deadly
01:46incursion and the deadly occupation of Palestinian lands of Gaza, also almost a year after the
01:56military siege against the Palestinian people carried out by the Israeli military forces.
02:04At this moment, the Lebanese army, as we were mentioning before, are moving back from some
02:11checkpoints at the border with Israel amid an intense artillery shelling by Israeli forces
02:19and also by reports of an Israeli incursion.
02:25A Lebanese army official assured that it has performed a redeployment of the forces.
02:35Said today, the highest authorities of the resistance movements of Lebanon and Hezbollah
02:42assured that they were ready to perform a face-to-face and a hand-to-hand battle and
02:51resistance against the military proposals or intentions of the Israeli military forces
02:59to carry out a military incursion into the territory.
03:03The move follows days of intensifying fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese
03:11military group Hezbollah, which began trading attacks back and forth across the Israeli-Lebanon
03:18border after the October 7th military incursion of Israel into the Gaza Strip that has led
03:32to a devastating death toll of over 40,000 Palestinian people dead during the genocide
03:39perpetrated by Israel in the Gaza Strip and also a war that is being spreading through
03:47the territory involving also the West Bank and also Yemen and now Lebanon.
03:58It is recalled that one of the main complicit in this military siege has been the United
04:06States, which is the main provider of armed supplies to Israel's defense ministry.
04:19At this moment, Israeli strikes across Lebanon have killed more than 1,000 people in less
04:25than two weeks and also forced many people to flee their homes, according to Lebanon's
04:31health ministry.
04:33The strikes have targeted Hezbollah and its weapons, and also killing Leader Hassan Nasrallah
04:42and several top officials.
04:44But also they have killed many civilians, including women and children, entire families
04:54whose pictures are going, have been viral through social networks every day.
05:01There are pictures of family members of those who have been killed due to the Israeli imperialist
05:12proportions of this war that has as the main objective to spread and to gain territories
05:23throughout the Middle East.
05:26According to Israel, it will keep targeting Hezbollah until Israeli residents can safely
05:32return to their homes.
05:33That's what he said.
05:35Let's recall that over the past week, the world followed closely the 79th session of
05:45the United Nations General Assembly in which the Prime Minister of Israel assured, we are
05:57talking about Benjamin Netanyahu, who assured that the siege was not going to stop, that
06:05they were going to keep spreading terror throughout the region, and this escalation of the war
06:15is of grave concern for all the nations, not just the United Nations and all the member
06:20states, but especially the peoples of the Middle East who are witnessing with horror
06:27how this crime has no stop and how the community, the international community, has very little
06:37influence in making Benjamin Netanyahu to stop its war of terror through the Middle
06:44East.
06:45As we were mentioning earlier, Israeli military forces have started a military incursion into
06:52the southern Lebanon following days of clashes and also after a very particular way of targeting
07:08civilians which was with the explosion of thousands of mobile devices that at the time
07:18of the explosion they had no differences between killing a military member of Hezbollah or
07:27either a child or an elderly person.
07:33According to U.S. officials, Israel is not prepared for a major ground offensive inside
07:40Lebanon, however, we are witnessing how Israel has just started a military incursion into
07:49the southern Lebanon following a year of ground operations inside Gaza.
07:59It is recalled that the leader of the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah,
08:06was killed in an Israeli strike on his underground headquarters in Beirut on Friday.
08:15Both Israel and Hezbollah confirmed this information.
08:18On September 27th was perpetrated a military incursion which left six buildings around
08:32a block turned into ashes which means that not just the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah,
08:41was killed in this operation but also there were multiple civilian casualties.
09:08We are seeing live images of the Middle East exactly in Lebanon where Israel has just started
09:14a military incursion into southern Lebanon.
09:17For further information keep in tune with From the South.