Israel At War Wed Oct 30

 Israel at war day  390

Avigdor Lieberman has called for Israel to not wait for an Iranian Retaliatory Attack, and to move towards launching a Pre-Emptive Strike.

- A high-ranking source told CNN that Israel’s recent attacks on Iran will be met with a “definitive and painful” response that will likely come before the US elections on November 5.

- Lebanon’s PM says he hopes for a Hezbollah ceasefire with Israel in ‘hours or days’

-Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office if he wins the election, two sources familiar with the matter revealed to The Times of Israel this week. The message was first conveyed when the Republican presidential nominee hosted the Israeli premier at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort in July, according to a former Trump administration official and an Israeli official

-A wave of drones was launched by Hezbollah all over Northern Israel. The IDF is currently tracking and attempting to shoot them down. IAF intercepts drone that crossed into Israel's North, Home Front Command says incident concluded

-New Hezbollah chief: We hit Netanyahu’s home, he ‘survived this time’ but may yet be killed

- IDF says it killed deputy head of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force

-The extensive IDF attacks in Baalbak are targeting the assets of Hezbollah's Unit 4400, which is responsible for the smuggling of Iranian weapons from Syria into Lebanon. (Doron Kadosh)

-Amos Hochstein and Biden's senior adviser Brett McGurk are expected to arrive in Israel tomorrow for a series of meetings on a political settlement in Lebanon.

 

-New Hezbollah  leader Naim Kasem:  "We continue to confront the aggression, and if the enemy wants to stop it, we accept the terms we deem suitable. Any solution remains in indirect negotiations."

 "The mainstay of any negotiation is a ceasefire first."

-Channel 12 reports that during a meeting of top Israeli officials led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, there was broad agreement that Israel has largely achieved its goals in the campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon and should now seek to translate that into a deal to end the fighting. Netanyahu accepted security officials’ position that a ceasefire in Lebanon is appropriate so long as it fulfills the objective of returning northern residents safely to their homes.