IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi says there must be a “very clear change” to the security situation on the Lebanon border, during a visit to the 91st Division in northern Israel.
“Both in the south and in the north, we need to return to a different situation, and return both security and a sense of security,” he says in a video distributed by the IDF.
“The State of Israel has never said that war is the first solution to try, but we understand that with the situation here [in the north], it should end in a very, very clear change of situation,” Halevi adds.
The remarks and tour of the north come at the same time as repeated Hezbollah rocket, missile, and drone attacks on army bases and civilians in northern Israel during the war in Gaza.
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