Israel’s army chief says Israel has drawn up plans for additional action against Hezbollah and is ready to strike.

“We have many capabilities that we have not yet activated,” Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said after approving new operational plans at Israel’s Northern Command on Wednesday.

“Every time we work at a certain stage, the next two stages are ready to go forward strongly,” he says. “At each stage, the price for Hezbollah needs to be high.”

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    And while in war, there are prohibitions on targeting non-combatants, they don’t require that there be no collateral damage. Israel’s pretty clearly targeting Hezbollah here, not random Lebanese.

    I do wonder if Hezbollah can maybe agree to stay out of part of Lebanon. I don’t think that that’d need to compromise either Israel’s or Hezbollah’s war plans, so maybe it’d be possible to come to some sort of agreement like that; you’d need buy-in from both parties. Then that area could be used as a safe area for Lebanese non-combatants.

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      Israel’s pretty clearly targeting Hezbollah here, not random Lebanese.

      Do you have proof for that statement?

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      They tried to target them certainly but there’s a huge margin of error involved, wait awhile for all the fallout. I imagine there’s going to be more than a few instances of people cracking batteries to find suspicious potentially lethal contents. Guaranteed there’s a bunch they didn’t pop because farmer Dan or Doctor Jane got it instead.