Breaking News Israel strikes Lebanon as US pushes for ceasefire.(CNN NEWS)_
What we’re covering’
• A diplomatic push is underway to prevent a regional war from erupting in the Middle East, with the US and its allies calling for a 21-day ceasefire across the Israel-Lebanon border. Israel’s prime minister has dismissed reports suggesting there could be an imminent ceasefire and told the Israeli military to continue fighting “with full force.”
• Israel’s military said it was preparing for a possible ground incursion into Lebanon, and that it was calling up two reserve brigades for missions in the north.
• As the conflict escalates, Israel and Hezbollah are trading waves of strikes, forcing tens of thousands in Lebanon to flee their homes. More than 90,000 people are newly displaced in Lebanon, the UN said.
• While Israel and Hezbollah have refrained from declaring that they are at war with each other, their ramped-up conflict goals may make that moot.
Breaking News Israel strikes Lebanon as US pushes for ceasefire.(CNN NEWS)_
New wave of Israeli airstrikes hits Lebanon.
From CNN’s Eyad Kourdi
A new wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Lebanon on Thursday afternoon local time.
The Lebanese state news agency NNA reported attacks on southern and eastern Lebanon and areas bordering Syria.
The Israeli military said it was “striking Hezbollah terror targets” in the country, adding that it “attacked infrastructures used to transfer weapons from Syrian territory to Hezbollah.”
“Fighter jets of the Air Force recently attacked infrastructures on the Syria-Lebanon border, which are used by the terrorist organization Hezbollah to transfer weapons from Syrian territory to Hezbollah in Lebanon,” it said in a statement.
Some context: Israel has been launching a barrage of airstrikes across swathes of Lebanon as its conflict with Hezbollah escalates.
Israel’s military has vowed to speed up its “offensive operations” against Hezbollah without reprieve. Troops on Wednesday held exercises simulating ground combat in Lebanon, which the military has not ruled out.
Thousands of people in Lebanon have been forced to flee their homes amid the intense attacks.
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