“Precision hits” targeting your top official Hezbollah node Beirut triggers at this moment the Israel.
Information released by Reuters spoke of the sound of explosions and smoke in parts of the city.
Almost simultaneously, the Israeli military announced that it had conducted preliminary maneuver exercises on its northern border and a few kilometers from Lebanon.
On Thursday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to continue fighting with “full force,” although he did not respond to a proposal from the United States, France and other countries for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to his office.
“The news about a ceasefire is not true. This is a Franco-American proposal, to which the prime minister has not even responded,” Netanyahu’s office said, according to the BBC.
“The reports about the directive to restrict forces in the north are not true,” Netanyahu’s office also noted, adding that the war in Gaza will continue until all of Israel’s goals are achieved.
They reject a ceasefire
But Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, for his part, rejected the ceasefire proposals in Lebanon.
“There will be no ceasefire in the north. We will continue to fight the terrorist organization Hezbollah with all our strength until victory and the safe return of the northern residents to their homes,” he announced on the X platform.