There's the delicate issue of foreign national evacuations to attend to...
Yes Israel via Ginsburg said that yesterday. That they would give us time to get our people out.
yes, but only from beirut. israel needs to cut off the southern part of the country and trap, to the degree possible, hezbollah assets and people inside that zone. they have bombed the roads, but I would have thought a quick blitz like armored column invasion was imminent.