“We will not stop until we achieve all our goals,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Thursday rejected demands by the Western coalition led by the United States, Britain and the European Union for a temporary ceasefire between Lebanon’s Hezbollah organization and Israel.
The Secretary General of the UN has also demanded a ceasefire António Guterres warning that all hell is about to break loose.
The Israeli army, the IDF, is currently carrying out attacks on Beirut. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, two people were killed and 15 others were wounded on Thursday in Israeli attacks on the Lebanese capital, says The Guardian.
Netanyahu: We will continue the attacks
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday In New York, he told reporters that Israel would continue to hit Hezbollah “with full force until we achieve all our objectives.”
Netanyahu will attend the UN General Assembly in New York.
– Israel’s policy is clear. We will continue to strike Hezbollah with full force. We will not stop until we achieve all our goals, the most important of which is the safe return of residents to their homes, Netanyahu said.
“The war must not end”
The war should not be interrupted, say many Israelis in the town of Nehariya on the Lebanese border to the news agency Reuters.
– We have to kill and stop them, to do something. But we must not end the war, says an Israeli man in an interview with Reuters.
Israel says it killed a Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut on Thursday. Hezbollah has so far not commented on the claim that Mohammed Hussein Surour would have died, says news agency AP.
Evacuations are planned for Cyprus and Turkey
According to Syrian security sources, more than 22,000 people have fled Lebanon to Syria this week as Israel ramps up its attacks on Lebanon.
This week, several Western countries have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon while the country’s airports are still operational. In addition, evacuations are also planned to be carried out by sea, for example to Cyprus.
On Thursday, Turkey also said that it is preparing possible evacuations of Turkish citizens and citizens of other countries from Lebanon.
British Broadcasting Corporation the BBC according to more than 90,000 people in Lebanon have been evacuated since Monday. Many have fled from the southern part of the country to the capital, Beirut.