In Gaza, Israeli officials have disputed medics reports that 87 people were killed or are missing after an IDF airstrike on the northern town of Beit Lahiya. On the battlefield, a military analyst has suggested that Israel is switching its objectives inside Gaza.
Middle East latest: Scores dead and missing after Israeli strike - as IDF objectives 'switching' in Gaza The Lebanese army is not affiliated with the much larger Hezbollah organisation - a proscribed terror group in many Western countries - which boasted a reported 100,000 fighters before this latest war broke out.
"Originally the Israelis were looking to degrade Hamas's ability to fight and govern, but it does look like that's switching - to actually destroy Hamas's ability to fight ," Bell says. Bell says it also doesn't help to solve the other Israeli war aim - that of recovering the some 100 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza.
"Bibi called me... and he said: 'It's incredible what's happened, they said it's pretty incredible', but he wouldn't listen to Biden because if he did they wouldn't be in this position.
"Netanyahu does not only want to continue the fighting, he is expanding this war... to Lebanon and now he wants to create a huge war with Iran, hoping to drag even the United States into ," he added. He noted hawkish figures in Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, who immediately called for IDF troops to"keep pressing forward" in the wake of the death of Sinwar.
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