Ground invasion of Lebanon 'a possibility'
Israeli forces are trying to curtail Hezbollah’s ability to fire rockets into Israel, the army’s deputy chief of staff said today, adding that a ground invasion into Lebanon had not been ruled out.
“At this stage we do not think we have to activate massive ground forces into Lebanon, but if we have to do this, we will. We are not ruling it out,” Major General Moshe Kaplinski told Israel Radio.
His comments echoed similar sentiment among Israeli officials since fighting erupted last week.
“Hezbollah has a very large system of different types of rockets,” Kaplinski told Israel Radio.
“The group still has an ability to fire at the north and residents still feel this. We will do everything to shorten this suffering.”
Hezbollah in Lebanon have fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel since fighting started on July 12 when the guerrillas snatched two soldiers in a cross-border raid.
More than 200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, and 24 Israelis, half of them civilians, have been killed since fighting erupted.
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