Defense Minister Israel Katz declared at the end of March that the army would operate in Lebanon "similar to the Rafah and Beit Hanun model" and indeed Israel is carrying out repeated attacks on civilian infrastructure including hospitals, electricity and water infrastructure, bridges, roads and more. Israel killed over a thousand people in Lebanon in the past month, displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes and erased entire villages. While Hezbollah directs unlawful attacks against Israeli civilian targets, the declaration yesterday (Thursday, April 9) by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, during celebrations for the construction of a new settlement in the West Bank, that Israel will expand its borders in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, clarifies exactly what the vision is that Israel is acting upon. [Translated from EN to English]

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