Extracts: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it an official goal to return more than 60,000 evacuated northern Israel residents to their homes
Last week, Israel is presumed to have blown up Hezbollah's personal communications devices, then killed its key military leaders in the heart of Dahiyeh, the Shia Muslim district that is Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold
Now, Israel's massive strikes in the southern and central Lebanese villages where it accuses Hezbollah of storing medium and long-range missiles and again in Beirut, show it is willing to go even further
Mohanad Hage Ali, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Centre told the ABC Australia
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"Of course, Hezbollah miscalculated"
"I don't think they had in mind that they would reach the stage in which much of their strategic weapons and the trust in their leadership and their ability to conduct a war, is being redefined by the Israeli attack"
