Israeli security official says any Lebanon ground op to be ‘as short’ as possible

An Israeli security official tells reporters that any ground operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon would be carried out as swiftly as possible.

“We will try to do it as short as we can,” the official tells journalists, speaking anonymously in line with security rules. “I think that we are preparing that every day, and for sure that is inside our toolbox.”

The official says the terror group has already “lost many capabilities,” but pushes back on accusations that the Israeli strikes are killing civilians in large numbers, calling the campaign “very precise, very accurate.”

“It’s not like they publish the names of the dead. Many of them were Hezbollah,” he says, though he also accuses Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields.

“This phenomenon of putting ballistic missiles inside an apartment, it’s crazy. Cruise missiles in the living room. Every morning you say hello to your wife, hello to the cruise missile.”