Israel’s military said on Tuesday it had begun ground operations in southwest Lebanon, expanding its incursions to a new zone a year after exchanges of fire began with armed group Hezbollah and amid pleas by the UN for a diplomatic solution.on southern Israel have spiralled to a string of Israeli operations by land and air over Lebanon and direct attacks by Iran onto Israeli military installations.
Gulf Arab states – most of them major energy exporters like Iran – have sought to reassure Tehran of their neutrality in the Iran-Israel conflict, sources told Reuters last week. Israel’s military struck Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight and said it killed a senior Hezbollah responsible for the group’s budgeting and logistics.
“Today, one year later, the near-daily exchanges of fire have escalated into a relentless military campaign whose humanitarian impact is nothing short of catastrophic,” they said in a joint statement.The attacks have raised fears that the US, Israel’s closest ally, and the Islamic Republic of Iran would be sucked into a full-blown conflict in the oil producing Middle East.
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