{"id":2282323,"date":"2024-06-23T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israels-intense-operations-in-gaza-about-to-end-with-attention-to-move-to-hezbollah-netanyahu-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:04:54","slug":"israels-intense-operations-in-gaza-about-to-end-with-attention-to-move-to-hezbollah-netanyahu-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israels-intense-operations-in-gaza-about-to-end-with-attention-to-move-to-hezbollah-netanyahu-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s \u2018intense\u2019 operations in Gaza \u2018about to end\u2019 with attention to move to Hezbollah: Netanyahu &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisraels-intense-operations-in-gaza-about-to-end-with-attention-to-move-to-hezbollah-netanyahu-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2282323&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the \u201cintense\u201d\u2062 phase of Israel&#8217;s war with Hamas in Gaza is nearing its end. While this doesn&#8217;t signify\u200d the end\u2063 of the war altogether, it indicates a shift toward concluding major combat operations in Rafah. Netanyahu explained that following this phase, Israeli forces \u200bcould be redeployed to the north for defensive purposes, particularly\u2062 due to ongoing tensions with Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant \u2062group\u2062 in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Since Hamas&#8217;s assault on October 7, which resulted in approximately 1,200 casualties among civilians and soldiers, \u200dIsrael has been actively engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-chinese-troops-on-canadian-soil-during-military-exercises\/\" title=\"Confirmed: Chinese Troops on Canadian Soil During Military Exercises\">military operations<\/a> to\u200d dismantle Hamas and recover hostages taken \u200dduring the\u200c attack.\u2063 Concurrently, hostilities have escalated between Israel and\u2062 Hezbollah, \u200bleading to exchanges of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jerusalem-violence-leads-to-hamas-rockets-on-israel-nine-dead-in-gaza\/\" title=\"Jerusalem Violence Leads to Hamas Rockets on Israel, Nine Dead in Gaza\">missile fire<\/a>\u2062 along their border. This situation intensified after\u200d Israel \u2064killed a senior Hezbollah commander, prompting retaliatory attacks from Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah leader Sayyed \u2062Hassan Nasrallah has threatened a &#8220;war without rules or ceilings&#8221;\u200c should a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-gas-prices-spike-13-per-cent-after-nord-stream-2-cancellation\/\" title=\"European Gas Prices Spike 13 Per Cent After Nord Stream 2 Cancellation\">full-scale conflict<\/a> erupt, indicating a potentially dangerous escalation in the region.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israel\u2019s<\/a> \u201cintense\u201d phase of war with Hamas in Gaza is \u201cabout to end,\u201d Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> said on Sunday, signaling that the Jewish state\u2019s attention will likely turn to the country\u2019s north amid threats from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hezbollah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hezbollah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end,\u201d Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/23\/middleeast\/intense-phase-hamas-war-end-netanyahu-lebanon-intl-latam?cid=ios_app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> local Channel 14. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that the war is about to end, but the war in its intense phase is about to end in Rafah. After the end of the intense phase, we will be able to redeploy some forces to the north, and we will do that. Primarily for defensive purposes but also to bring the (displaced) residents back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony at the Nahalat Yitshak Cemetery in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. The ceremony marked the annual memorial for people killed in Israel\u2019s Altalena affair \u2014 a violent clash between rival Jewish forces that nearly pushed the newly independent Israel into civil war in 1948. (Shaul Golan\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Israel has been fighting in Gaza since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-israel-pounds-underground-palestinian-terror-networks-assets-with-110-precision-bombs\/\" title=\"WATCH: Israel Pounds Underground Palestinian Terror Networks, Assets With 110 Precision Bombs\">militant group\u2019<\/a>s assault on Oct. 7, where roughly 1,200 civilians and soldiers were killed. Netanyahu\u2019s government has made clear its objectives to eradicate Hamas as well as rescue its hostages that Hamas captured during its attack last fall. <\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah is an Iran-backed militant group operating in Lebanon that has feuded with Israel for decades. Ever since Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 attack, Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged missile attacks along their shared border.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Fires and smoke rise at houses in the northern Israeli border town of Metula, hit by Hezbollah shelling, as seen from the Lebanese town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Saturday, June 22, 2024. The level of threats between Israel and Hezbollah intensified following last week\u2019s killing by Israel of Hezbollah\u2019s most senior commander since the fighting began. Hezbollah retaliated by firing hundreds of rockets into northern Israel in retaliation. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, the leader of\u00a0Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3051881\/hezbollah-leader-warns-no-place-israel-safe-major-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>warned of a war<\/a> \u201cwithout rules or ceilings\u201d in the event of a full-scale conflict with\u00a0Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo place\u201d in Israel would be safe in such conflict, Nasrallah said while speaking at a ceremony to commemorate slain senior commander Taleb Abdullah, who was killed last week in an Israeli airstrike.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces said the same week that \u201coperational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved and validated.\u201d Israel spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Hezbollah\u2019s \u201cincreasing aggressing is bringing us to the brink of what could be a wider escalation, one that could have devastating consequences for Lebanon and the entire region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry has said more than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, with many people, including some U.S. Democrats, begging for a ceasefire. Israel has maintained that it is Hamas who has put Palestinians in danger, even by using civilians as \u201chuman shields,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3000381\/hamas-human-shields-tough-conclude-israel-violate-international-law-us-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to<\/a> Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 7 attack and subsequent rise in antisemitism have also led to worldwide criticism and calls for an end to discrimination and hate. The conflict has become a polarizing topic across many countries, including the United States, with President Joe Biden facing scrutiny from opposite camps for allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2943197\/house-republicans-biden-undermining-israel-un-ceasefire-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>not doing enough<\/a> to support Israel, and, according to others, not doing enough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/2988465\/sanders-warning-biden-frustrated-young-voters-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>to stand up<\/a> for innocent Palestinian lives.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that the &#8220;intense&#8221; phase of Israel&#8217;s conflict with Hamas in Gaza is nearing its end. Speaking to Channel 14, he indicated a potential shift in focus to the northern threats posed by Hezbollah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2734,"featured_media":2282324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Benjamin-Netanyahu-Israel-Speech.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[20083,24658,4671,6524,32076],"class_list":["post-2282323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-gaza","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Benjamin-Netanyahu-Israel-Speech.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}