2024-10-01
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the israeli military issued a statement in the early morning of october 1st saying,a "limited ground operation" has begun against hezbollah targets in southern lebanon.
u.s. president biden said on september 30 that israel should abandon ground military operations in lebanon and implement a ceasefire.
biden briefed the media on the disaster caused by hurricane helene at the white house that day, and then made the above statement when answering reporters' questions about the situation in the middle east. biden said he understood israel's plans to launch "limited ground operations" in lebanon soon,"i want them to stop and there should be a ceasefire now."
u.s. state department spokesman matthew miller said at a regular press conference on the same day that the united states has communicated with israel about the latter's possible ground military action against lebanon.israel informed the united states that ground operations would be limited to attacking lebanese hezbollah infrastructure on the lebanese-israeli border.
israeli prime minister netanyahu released a three-minute english video on september 30, saying that it was his "direct speech" to the iranian people. he said in the video,"there is no place in the middle east that israel cannot touch." he accused the iranian government of "plunging the middle east into war at the expense of its own people" and "is bringing the iranians closer to the abyss step by step."
netanyahu said that when iran is "finally free", iran and israel will achieve peace, and that this moment will come "much sooner than people think."
the iranian government has yet to respond to netanyahu's so-called "direct speech to the iranian people."