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Netanyahu Says Israel Will Keep Striking in Lebanon, Including North of the Litani Israel is running the same old border-security script in Lebanon, only now it comes with the vocabulary of “freedom of action,” “emerging threats,” and a security zone that keeps expanding while everyone pretends this is temporary. Netanyahu is claiming the U.S. and Lebanon have effectively blessed Israeli strikes north of the buffer zone and beyond the Litani, which is a very polished way of saying the war is still alive, just better packaged. The headline number is brutal: Hezbollah is down to roughly 10 percent of its prewar missile arsenal, but Netanyahu says the remaining rockets and drones are still enough to keep the north under pressure. That means the strategy is no longer just to survive the threat — it is to keep shrinking the threat until “security” becomes another word for permanent military management. What makes the whole thing political, not just military, is the promise that the “political side” can be solved later if the operational and technological side works now. That is classic Netanyahu: let the army, the tech sector, and the diplomatic theater do the heavy lifting, then present the result as if it were inevitable and clean. But the gap between the official story and ground reality is still huge. On paper, Israel has freedom of action; in practice, it has a fragile ceasefire, a still-armed Hezbollah in the background, and a northern frontier that looks less like a border than a managed zone of controlled escalation. So the message is simple: the government says the mission is not over, the army says the rules are changing, and the public is being asked to believe that a longer buffer zone is somehow the same thing as a durable peace. #Israel#Lebanon#Hezbollah#Netanyahu#Litani#securityzone 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸