Israel has now called on Lebanese civilians to evacuate areas where Hezbollah stores weapons, indicating that the attacks will continue. This has also caused an escalation in Hezbollah’s assaults.

However, unless recent attacks push Hezbollah into accepting a truce, Israel’s goals cannot be achieved by airpower alone. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is preparing for a ground invasion. This will see ground troops, tanks and other forces cross into southern Lebanon in order to push the terrorists past the Litany River — some twenty-five miles away from the border — and where Hezbollah should’ve kept it’s forces according [to the] UN Security Council resolution 1701, of which it’s in violation.

Considering Israel’s trauma from its protracted war in Lebanon, which Israelis refer to as “the swamp,” because once sunk in, it’s extremely difficult to come out of, the ground option isn’t an attractive one to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.