Israel is now fighting 2 wars but he says its military has 'completely transformed reality'.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, where he visited troops and received a comprehensive briefing, on July 18.
In late September, Israel turned its focus north, intensifying military action against Iran-backed Hezbollah which had been routinely sending rockets over the border from Lebanon in support of Hamas. At last 370 people were killed at one location alone, the Nova rave in the Negev desert, which was commemorated with candles, prayer and music in Tel Aviv on Oct 6.In northern Gaza, the military said it had encircled the Jabaliya area after indications Hamas was rebuilding there despite a year of air strikes and fighting.
Despite fighting which has escalated in Lebanon since late September, and the threat of war with Iran, Mr Netanyahu told French President Emmanuel Macron in a phone call that Israel’s actions in Lebanon would help bring “stability, security and peace in the entire region”, according to the Israeli leader’s office.
The leaders of Jordan and the United Arab Emirates called for intensified international efforts to stop both wars, while Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani warned the fighting could “plunge the region and the world into prolonged conflicts”. “They are not hitting military targets, but civilian ones,” shopkeeper Mehdi Zeiter, 60, said earlier.
United Nations peacekeepers accused the Israeli military of compromising their safety by operating “immediately adjacent” to one of their positions in south Lebanon.Israeli police on Oct 6 said a female border officer was killed in a shooting attack on a bus station that first responders say injured 10 others.
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