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You have to go back to the 2024 ceasefire deal that was supposed to have ended a year of intense cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group. That went on in parallel to the war in Gaza.

really only saw a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces. They did remain in some positions in the very south of Lebanon, but gradually the Lebanese army was supposed to be taking over there and pushing out any remnants of Hezbollah, stopping them from regrouping there. But now what the Israeli military is basically saying is that it's trying to present this not as a new

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by Hezbollah to conduct such a raid or indeed, you know, that they could get closer to the border to continue with their rocket fire because they have already been in the north of Israel since Hezbollah really sort of announced that it was entering into this new conflict. And of course, you take into consideration here that that had been in many ways anticipated because Hezbollah is so financially and ideologically linked to Iran that

There have been these rocket and drone attacks that have been going on, affecting people in the north of Israel. Some people, you know, suffering minor injuries there today. People rushing into their air raid shelters once again. Jolan, just to focus on the wider conflict for a moment. There's been a lot of talk about the strategic objectives of this war. What do you think the Israelis really want to achieve?

What they have been saying consistently when they've been laying out the case for war is that they want to target all aspects of the threat that they see as very sort of real and immediate to them from Iran. And so that is why they talk about.

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Iran has all around this region. The case has really very much been laid out that Iran, after what's happened with the war that's gone on in Gaza, where Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been

So weakened after the 12-day war that Israel started with Iran last summer with the U.S. joining in at the end where nuclear and military sites were really attacked, that this was a moment of weakness for Iran. And then the fact that, you know, the U.S., Israel's closest ally, came so fully on board with these attacks, that is what really sort of, you know,