Israel Gears Up for Military Response as Hezbollah Violates Ceasefire
Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Israel will respond forcefully” to Hezbollah’s “serious violation” of ceasefire.
Israel is gearing up for a ‘decisive’ military response after a major ceasefire violation by the Hezbollah terrorist group.
After carrying out several violations since the Biden administration-backed ceasefire came into effect on November 27, the Iran-sponsored terrorist group on Monday fired two mortars on the Golan Heights in northern Israel.
Hezbollah “launched two projectiles toward the area of Har Dov,” the IDF confirmed a statement Monday afternoon. “The projectiles fell in open areas. No injuries are reported.”
A short while ago, the Hezbollah terrorist organization launched two projectiles toward the area of Har Dov. The projectiles fell in open areas. No injuries are reported. pic.twitter.com/Lxir4IBde6
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 2, 2024
The Israeli government vowed to retaliate against the blatant ceasefire breach by the Lebanon-based terrorist group. “Israel will respond forcefully” to Hezbollah’s “serious violation” of the ceasefire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was preparing a swift military response, the Israeli news website YNET reported:
The IDF Operations and Intelligence Directorates have developed a contingency plan for a decisive response to cease-fire violations by Hezbollah, security officials said after the terrorist group fired two mortar rounds at Mount Dov on Monday evening, its first such attack since the cease-fire took effect last week.
The officials said the decision to act now rests with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz. “Failing to respond forcefully to the first violation will drag us into a war of attrition,” warned a senior IDF official involved in the planning.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, describing it as a “defensive warning.” In a statement, the group accused Israel of multiple cease-fire breaches, including airstrikes, attacks on civilians and violations of Lebanese airspace.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack a “serious violation of the cease-fire” and vowed a strong response. “We are determined to continue enforcing the cease-fire and to respond to every Hezbollah violation, no matter how minor or severe,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
Defense Minister Katz voiced a similar threat. “We promised to act against any Hezbollah violations of the cease-fire, and that is exactly what we will do. What was will no longer be,” he said.
The IDF will respond ‘decisively’ to the blatant Hezbollah violations. “We will respond decisively to Hezbollah’s severe violation of the ceasefire —and will continue to do so,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said Monday. “We have plans and targets ready to be carried out and at any given moment,” he assured.
There were unconfirmed reports of Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon.
REPORT 🚨
It didn't last long: the residents of southern Lebanon started to flee from the south of the country@IsraelHayomHeb pic.twitter.com/lIDVUeWwDW
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 2, 2024
Israeli-American Omer Neutra murdered following his abduction by Hamas, IDF Confirms
The IDF officer and Israeli-American, Omer Neutra, was murdered following his abduction on October 7, 2023, the Israeli military confirmed Monday. Neutra, a 21-year-old former New York resident, was posted as a tank commander on the Gaza border and was feared dead in the initial wave of Hamas-led terrorist attacks.
Omer Neutra, a 21-year-old American-Israeli, served as a platoon commander in the Armored Corps. Today we can confirm, based on intelligence, that he was killed in battle on Oct. 7 and his body has been held hostage in Gaza since.
May his memory be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/gfQvXsuEbO
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 2, 2024
The Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported:
The Israel Defense Forces said on Monday that Captain Omer Neutra, a lone soldier from New York and tank commader in the 7th Armored Brigade, was killed after being abducted by Gazan terrorists on October 7, 2023.
Neutra, who was 21 years old, was believed to be kidnapped and murdered, although this was uncertain. His was reclassified after a committee of experts gathering evidence concluded that he was killed during the terrorist onslaught.
He was murdered along with the other soldiers in his tank – Shaked Dahan, Oz Daniel, and Nimrod Cohen.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conveyed to the bereaved family on X. “My wife Sarah and I express our condolences from the depths of our hearts to the parents and family of Captain Omer Neutra, the heroic armored corps officer, with the bitter news of his fall on October 7th,” he eulogized.
Netanyahu praised him for immigrating to Israel to serve in a combat role, and once there was selected to command and lead.
“We will not rest and we will not be quiet until we bring them home to be buried in Israel, and we will continue to act decisively and without faltering until we return all of our kidnapped – the living and the fallen. May his memory be blessed.”
Neutra was born and raised in the US, and he is an American citizen. He lived in Kibbutz Afikim, and chose to move to Israel as a lone soldier and enlist in the Armored Corps, after a preparatory year within the Garin Tzabar program. He loved sports, played football, basketball, and volleyball, and was the captain of his school sports teams. His family and friends said he was a warm, optimistic, and people-loving man who “lights up the room the moment he enters it.”
🔴 Just heartbreaking …
IDF confirms that Omer Neutra, a 21 year-old Israeli American, originally from New York, was murdered by Hamas on Oct 7th, with his body kidnapped into Gaza. Until now, it was presumed he was alive and captive. Just devastating news 💔 pic.twitter.com/r2rkcJCObP
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) December 2, 2024
The news comes just days after Hamas released a propaganda video featuring 20-year-old Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander. Alexander, a former resident of Tenafly, NJ, was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, and has been in captivity for 424 days.
The three-minute disturbing video was aimed at pressing the incoming Trump administration into securing a ceasefire deal for Hamas in Gaza.
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Perhaps Israel can use that sinister new weapon that vaporizes combatants.
At the moment, Northern Israel is under rocket warnings and IDF is striking targets in Southern Lebanon. The ‘ceasefire’ is dunzo. Hezbollah, like the PLO for decades, never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
I think Trump answered Hamas with his statement. The terrorists are dealing with an entirely different animal than the muslim loving outlaw weak Biden regime. I’m actually surprised that the corporate press has up until this point ignored the fact that American Citizens are being held hostage by the terrorists. No longer.
Gee, nobody saw that one coming..
Were any betting sites were giving odds on when (not if) Hezbollah would violate the cease-fire?
Trump will give the green light for Israel to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. Probably even offer help if they need it.
Any “ceasefire” or other agreement with goose-stepping, genocidal and evil Islamofascists/terrorists/Muslim supremacists is worthless.
We have only 1,400-plus years of ample historical evidence to support that premise. Apparently, nearly 1.5 millennia are insufficient to convince the leftist dhimmis and Dhimmic-crats that you cannot make deals with these reprobates.
Hezbollah has to be rooted out and driven out of the country. The country has to have the will to accept help and cooperate to work on making it happen or it will never happen.
Not happening. The Shi’a people in southern Lebanon support Hezbollah; they’ve been beneficiaries of the Iranian/Syrian/Hezbollah largesse over the last several decades. They won’t turn their backs on Hezbollah, though from time to time they do run for their lives.
Also recall that Israel occupied southern Lebanon for a time in the 1980s; it didn’t go well.
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