EGN NEWS DESK
WASHINGTON –
In the rapid days after the lethal Oct. 7 Hamas assaults on Israel, Israeli intelligence officers feared a preemptive strike was imminent from one other longtime enemy, Hezbollah. They frantically ready to cease it with plans to strike and kill Hassan Nasrallah, the highly effective Hezbollah chief who the Israelis knew could be in a bunker in Beirut.
In the rapid days after the lethal Oct. 7 Hamas assaults on Israel, Israeli intelligence officers feared a preemptive strike was imminent from one other longtime enemy, Hezbollah. They frantically ready to cease it with plans to strike and kill Hassan Nasrallah, the highly effective Hezbollah chief who the Israelis knew could be in a bunker in Beirut.
But when Israel knowledgeable the White House of its plans, alarmed administration officers discounted the approaching Hezbollah strike. President Joe Biden known as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, advised him that killing Nasrallah would set off a regional conflict and requested him to carry his fireplace, present and former senior American and Israeli officers mentioned.
On Saturday, Israel introduced that it had killed Nasrallah after warplanes dropped greater than 80 bombs on 4 house buildings in Lebanon, the place the Hezbollah chief of greater than three a long time had gone to fulfill his high lieutenants. Biden was not knowledgeable forward of time, aggravating the White House.
