He said, their moment of freedom, would come a lot sooner than people think. More on that in a moment. 0n lebanon israel s defence minister said they were ready to use forces from air, sea and land to achieve its objectives against hezbollah to achieve its objectives against hezbollah to ensure people who d to ensure people who d evacuated their homes evacuated their homes in northern israel, in northern israel, were safe to return. Were safe to return. He told the troops, he told the troops, you are part of this effort. You are part of this effort. Hezbollah s deputy hezbollah s deputy leader has insisted that the group is ready leader has insisted that the group is ready if israel decides if israel decides to invade lebanon. To invade lebanon. In a defiant speech, in a defiant speech, he said the battle against he said the battle against israel will continue. Israel will continue. There have been more there have been more israeli attacks today. Israeli attacks today. Hamas
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Ground invasion. On lebanon, israel s defense minister said they were ready to use forces from air, sea and land to achieve its objectives against hezbollah to ensure people who d 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, lebanon s prime minister said he s ready to deploy the country s army to defend the border area if needed. Joining me now is our correspondentjon donnison, who s injerusalem, and anna foster, who s 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, that s right. starting pretty soon. Yeah, that s right. The starting pretty soon. Yeah, that s right. The defence i that
There are reports tonight that a us official says israel intends to launch a ground offensive in lebanon, which could begin as soon as today. Israeli tanks are gathering by the country s northern border. Israel s defence minister, who was visiting troops today, told them the next phase of the war will begin soon. Hezbollah has said it s prepared for all out war. Let s go straight to lebanon and the capital beirut, anna foster. There is a realfeeling of momentum in the middle east tonight, after the israeli defence minister told his troops on the board at that the military would use force by air, sea and land to achieve the aim of returning displaced israelis back to their homes. They said the killing in beirut of the hezbollah leader, hassan nasrallah was not the final step. There have been reports that israeli special forces had launched some raids inside lebanon but that has not been confirmed. Lucy williamson has been to northern israel and sent this report. Israel s army is moving