Ground invasion. On lebanon, Israels Defense Minister said they were ready to use forces from air, Sea And Land to achieve its objectives against hezbollah to ensure people whod evacuated their homes in northern israel were safe to return. Use the quote that it would start soon in the few minutes. Hezbollah s Deputy Leader has insisted that the group is ready if israel decides to invade lebanon. In a defiant speech, he said the battle against israel will continue. In a separate development, lebanons Prime Minister said hes ready to deploy the Countrys Army to defend the Border Area if needed. Joining me now is our correspondentjon donnison, whos injerusalem, and anna foster, whos in beirut. And Tom Bateman in washington. First of all, all the indicators point to this Ground Incursion, this Ground Invasion starting pretty soon. Starting pretty soon. Yeah, thats right. Starting pretty soon. Yeah, thats right. The starting pretty soon. Yeah, thats right. The defence i thats right. The Def
LInks to Iran. LInks to Iran. He was one of the best known he was one of the best known and most InfluentIal fIgures In the MIddle East. Born In 1960, Hassan Nasrallah grew up In beIrut s Eastern Bourj Hammoud neIghbourhood. He became leader of hezbollah In 1992, at the age of 32, after hIs predecessor was assassInated. He played a Key Role In turnIng hezbollah Into a powerful polItIcal and mIlItary force. Under hIs leadershIp, he helped hezbollah TraIn Hundreds of fIghters from the palestInIan MIlItant Group hamas. And he also obtaIned mIssIles and rockets from Iran for use agaInst Israel. Lets speak to anna foster, our mIddle East Correspondent In beIrut. Talk us through exactly what we know about what happened there. ThIs Is a really crucIal moment now. Last nIght, about 6 20pm here In beIrut, we had thIs huge serIes of explosIons a few kIlometres from where I am now In dahIeh, In the Southern Suburbs, a hezbollah stronghold. We saw pIctures quIckly of absolute destructIon comIng ou
Has said the idf will yet not stop targetting the iranian backed group. More than Two Hundred hezbollah positions were hit on thursday. Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale reports from New York. Theres no ceasefire in beirut. This was the aftermath of yet another Air Strike in the lebanese capital. Israel says it is targeting hezbollah commanders. These were their images of the attack. One that had devastating consequences. At the United Nations the Prime Minister has been meeting key regional leaders. He signed up to an international call for an immediate ceasefire, a call he echoed as he addressed the un General Assembly for the first time. I General Assembly for the first time. General assembly for the first time. H,. , General Assembly for the first time. ,. ,. Time. I call on israel expect israel and time. I call on israel expect Israel And Hezbollah time. I call on israel expect Israel And Hezbollah to time. I call on israel expect | Israel And Hezbollah to stop the violen
The ground, there would be under our control. The corridor should not be evacuated because if we give up that control, gaza will become an enclave of terror. But when they did that and we did do the disengagement, they carried out the order and i wrote him a Resignation Letter because i said that the minimum requirement is we must actually keep the Philadelphia Corridor and our hands. And Theres Nothing new about this and wound if we do not have the corridor, it will continue to be arming themselves and a monster will be created. This Axis Of Evil needs the Philadelphi Corridor and it is incumbent upon us to control it. Hamas therefore stubbornly does not want us there and for that reason, we Are demanding that reason, we Are demanding that we Are there because our presence there is a strategic issue. We have to fix say that we Are there. 0k, people said to me, you can leave for 42 days and then come back. And i said yes, i have heard that. We have been there before we left and the mis
and welcome to our hannity this friday night. we start with this fox news alert. israel s ground operationsright havel s ground operationsright now expanded. we have large explosions, artillery, tank fire and even possible bunker buster bombs that have been heard and see n nonstop all night long, as the idf has now confirmed the expansion of operations. in other words, the ground no other words, the ground officially begun. now, here with a verciallyy own you know how here is acr description of how things wentin earlier tonight, just how this all got started from our very own yang s. take a listen. clearly, something is happening tonight and we continue to cite the israeli military and what they ve told us, and they ve told us they are conducting expanded ground raids into gazia . we don t want to speculate ors call this for what it could be because we need to wait and we need to be patient here. but this is, unlike any other night we have covered, we ve been out here for t