Iran says the attack — its biggest assault on Israel — is over barring further provocation, but Israel and the United States promised to hit back
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The military has said its ground operation is largely aimed at destroying tunnels and other infrastructure on the border and there were no plans for a wider operation targeting Beirut or major cities in southern Lebanon.It issued new evacuation orders for around two dozen towns along the southern border.
Nearly 1,900 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in almost a year of cross-border fighting, with the most in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics. More than a million people have been forced to flee their homes. The general staff of Iran’s armed forces said any Israeli response would be met with “vast destruction” of the latter’s infrastructure.
On social media, Iranians were apprehensive about Israeli retaliation and said past wars, such as the eight-year conflict with Iraq in the 1980s that killed about a million people, would only bring more suffering.“The destruction of generations, young people being cannon fodder, the enrichment of generals and elites, and the empowerment of extremists? Leaders will not pay for dragging Iran into war,” said Nima Mokhtarian, who works at an NGO.
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