Officials close to US President Joe Biden are concerned that Israel is planning to launch a ground operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the coming months, CNN reports.
According to the report, the Biden administration has held intelligence briefings on the matter, preparing for the possibility that the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group cannot be made to retreat from the border through diplomatic measures.
Speaking to CNN on the condition of anonymity, one official says that the Biden administration is “operating in the assumption that an Israeli military operation is in the coming months.”
The official adds that it does not expect an operation to be imminent “in the next few weeks” but “perhaps later this spring.”
Since October 8, Hezbollah has been trading fire with the Israeli military across Lebanon’s southern border in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, which launched a devastating assault in Israel on October 7.
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