Several Israeli ministers called on the government on Sunday morning to intensify attacks against Hezbollah and Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood in response to the terror group’s ongoing bombardment targeting Israel’s soldiers and northern communities.
Hezbollah continuing to launch drones and rockets at northern communities despite the ongoing ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is a “test of the prime minister’s Dahiyeh doctrine,” wrote Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) in a Sunday post to X/Twitter.
“I call on him to implement it with determination and force and to demolish buildings in Dahiyeh today as well,” said Smotrich. “We promised security to the residents of the north, and we must fulfill it!”
In his own X post, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he would clarify his position to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday regarding the ongoing fighting in Lebanon.
“For every drone – a missile. For every violation – fire. For every drone – Dahiyeh must tremble. For every hair on the head of an IDF soldier – a thousand Hezbollah terrorists,” Ben-Gvir wrote. “Against terror, we do not contain, we crush!”
Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer (RZP) affirmed that “Israel must attack Dahiyeh” in his own post to X on Sunday.
Neither Shlomi nor any other settlement in Israel will become a normalized target in the hands of Hezbollah,” he wrote.
IDF reportedly preparing to stop Lebanon ground advance amid pending US-Iran deal
Israeli public broadcaster KAN News on Saturday, citing security sources, reported that Israel is preparing for the possibility that the pending US-Iran agreement will result in calls to stop the IDF ground advance against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Per the sources, the IDF is readying to halt attacks deeper in Lebanon to avoid harming the deal, but will not withdraw from the security zone as part of that agreement.
The sources also said that the issue of the IDF’s full withdrawal will be discussed with Lebanon during talks in Washington later in June.
The IDF’s 36th Division has continued to push north in Lebanon, according to KAN, with some reports saying they have neared the large Lebanese city of Nabatieh.
