Israel launches devastating airstrikes across Beirut

The Israeli army will “not take its foot off the pedal” until Hezbollah has been disarmed, the new defence minister has said in an apparent expansion of the country’s war aims in Lebanon.

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Speaking to soldiers on the northern border, Israel Katz, who replaced the defenestrated Yoav Gallant last week, ruled out a ceasefire despite intimations from senior officials over recent days about a possible end to hostilities.

Israel Defence Forces are pressing deeper into Lebanon and are now thought to have reached the second line of villages from the border. Six soldiers were killed on Wednesday, Israel’s heaviest death toll in a single day during its ground offensive against Hezbollah, which began at the end of September.

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