After meeting with his military chiefs near Israel’s northern front with Hizbollah late last year, Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a stark warning to the Lebanese militant group: if it started an all-out war, Israel would “turn Beirut and southern Lebanon . . . into Gaza”.
It is now Netanyahu who has escalated the conflict with Hizbollah, with Israel launching what it calls “limited, localised and targeted ground raids” against the militant group in its first land offensive in…
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