The office of Mr. Gallant stated in a statement on Saturday that he was carrying out “an operational situation assessment” with reference to “the expansion of IDF (Israel Defence Forces) activities in the northern arena”.
After then, Israeli tanks and troops were seen close to the border, which Deborah Haynes, security and defense editor at News, described as the “clearest sign yet” that Israel and Hezbollah’s battle is “about to expand even further.”.
Three extra battalions of reserve soldiers will be called up by the military to serve around the nation, it announced. It had dispatched two brigades to the north already.
The deployment follows Hezbollah’s announcement that its leader of almost thirty years, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed on Friday in a hit by Israeli aircraft in Beirut.
The Iranian-aligned extremist organization threatened to keep up the attacks on Israel while bombarding the districts surrounding the capital of Lebanon.
According to early estimates from Lebanon’s health ministry, at least six persons—not including Nasrallah—were killed and ninety-one were injured in the strikes.
