Hebrew → English transcript

I want to strengthen the residents of the north who continue to stand firm.

At the same time,

our forces continue to strike Hezbollah.

The fighting is focused on Bint Jbeil. Bint Jbeil is

the Hezbollah capital in southern Lebanon.

This is the place where Hassan Nasrallah said twenty- six years ago,

the Israelis are spiderwebs.

We are about to decide the battle for

Bint Jbeil. We are basically about

to eliminate this major Hezbollah stronghold. At the same time,

yesterday I gave the IDF instructions to continue thickening the security zone,

and also to deploy it eastward to the slopes of Mount Hermon,

so that we can help our Druze brothers even better in their hour of need.

At the same time, we are conducting negotiations with Lebanon.

These negotiations have not taken place for over forty years.

They are taking place now because we are very strong, and countries are

coming to us, not only Lebanon.

In the negotiations with Lebanon there are two main goals: first,

the dismantling of Hezbollah, and second, a sustainable peace.

Peace out of strength. And there is of course another thing. Our American

friends are updating us all the time on their contacts with Iran.

Our goals and those of the United States are identical.

We want to see the enriched material removed from Iran,

we want to see the cancellation of enrichment capability inside Iran,

and of course we want to see

the opening of the straits.

It is too early to say how this will end, or

how it will even progress.

And in view of the possibility that the fighting will resume,

we are prepared for every scenario.