00:00That's right. And now moving on to the ground operations, because Israeli forces have begun, as they reported, limited ground
00:06operations in southern Lebanon, targeting, they say, Hezbollah positions.
00:10So how significant is actually the shift from airstrikes to ground operations?
00:16This is significant, because now Israel is carrying out new incursions, widening its area of control in south Lebanon.
00:30And this raises a lot of concern of a possible bigger ground operation, that there's a lot of talk about,
00:40you know, Israel is very busy with Iran, that once the conflict with Iran subsides, then we will see an
00:51escalation in the ground offensive.
00:53There are reports of the Israelis calling large numbers of reserves, which indicates a major ground offensive that would go
01:02north of the Litani River, even possibly all the way to the Bikar Valley.
01:08So these are big concerns that this new expansion of territory could be just a way to have to allow
01:20Israel to build more forces in the area south of the Litani to carry out a bigger incursion north of
01:27the Litani at a later stage.
01:29Thank you very much.
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