'We will do it. We will have to do it,' former Israeli intelligence official Zohar Palti told journalists in Tel Aviv.
Stretching several miles from the Lebanon border into northern Israel is what local officials refer to as a 'dead zone.' Tens of thousands of residents have fled further south. The area's agriculture industry has evaporated, and its tourism is non-existent.
'They have nearly unlimited budget, they have access to all the new ammunition, bombs, rockets that you can imagine,' he added. 'They have the equipment, they have the capability, to attack, and they have the motivation.'IDF commanders in the north project a conviction that Israel will emerge firmly victorious against Hezbollah, despite the group's extensive weapons stockpiles and concerns over Israel's air defense capability against barrages from the north.
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