据以色列国防军称，随着与真主党的战争加剧，以色列正在准备潜在的地面行动。
“今天，我们将继续，我们不会停止;我们不断打击他们，到处都是，”总参谋长赫齐·哈勒维中将周三表示。“目标非常明确——让北部的居民安全返回。为了实现这一目标，我们正在准备一个机动过程，这意味着你们的军用靴子，你们的机动靴子，将进入敌人的领土，进入真主党准备作为大型军事前哨的村庄，带有地下基础设施，集结地和发射台，进入我们的领土，对以色列平民进行袭击。”
以色列继续进攻在黎巴嫩南部和贝鲁特以东的Begaa地区进行“广泛的打击”。以色列军方称，周三袭击了黎巴嫩的260个目标，并在过去三天袭击了2000多个真主党目标。
以色列国防军发言人丹尼尔·哈加里周三说:“我们正在继续攻击，我们没有停止，相反，我们同时准备继续下去。”
根据黎巴嫩公共卫生部的数据，周三，至少有81人在以色列的袭击中丧生，403人受伤。
据该部称，自周一以来，共有650多人死亡，其中包括至少50名儿童，另有1700多人受伤。
根据哈加里的说法，以色列还在周三召集了数千名士兵到以色列北部，“在北部前线执行任务，让我们能够继续战争”。
据该组织称，真主党周三首次向特拉维夫发射了一枚远程弹道导弹，目标是摩萨德总部。真主党说，它指责摩萨德最近暗杀其最高领导人成员传呼机爆炸和手持收音机。
据以色列国防军称，导弹被防空系统拦截。以色列还表示，他们摧毁了黎巴嫩境内的导弹发射器。
据联合国称，在以色列为期五天的空袭中，黎巴嫩超过90，000人流离失所。
黎巴嫩外长阿布达拉?布?哈比卜16日警告说，黎巴嫩因战争而流离失所的人数可能接近50万，他强调说，“黎巴嫩的战争无助于以色列人返回家园，谈判是唯一的出路”
随着罢工继续袭击黎巴嫩，其最大的医院-贝鲁特的拉菲克哈里里大学医院-正在为最坏的情况做准备，重新开放多个侧翼，并组织了一个大规模的分流单位。医院的屋顶上插着写有字母“H”的旗帜，以便头顶飞过的飞机识别它。
“我要求这家医院不要遭到炮击，”医院院长吉哈德·萨德(Jihad Saade)医生周三表示。“我们不希望加沙问题在这里重演，即炮击和轰炸医院。如果这家医院成为目标，那就非常危险。”
在伊拉克声称向以色列埃拉特港发射两架无人驾驶飞机以“支持我们在巴勒斯坦和黎巴嫩的人民”后，至少有两人受伤。其中一架无人机被击落，另一架无人机击中港口附近。
本周聚集在纽约联合国大会的国际领导人呼吁以色列和哈马斯以及以色列和真主党之间降级，呼吁达成停火协议以结束与哈马斯的战争，并通过外交解决方案结束与真主党不断扩大的冲突。
以色列和哈马斯之间的调解人现在离停火协议还很远一如既往，多名美国高级官员告诉美国广播公司新闻。
埃及、伊拉克和约旦外长周三发表了一份罕见的联合声明，谴责“以色列对黎巴嫩的侵略”，并警告说，“以色列正在将该地区推向一场全面战争。”
阻止“危险的升级...从制止以色列对加沙的侵略开始，”部长们周二在联合国会议期间会晤后发表的一份声明中说。
伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊是哈马斯和真主党的重要财政支持者，他星期三也警告说，杀害黎巴嫩真主党成员不会使该组织屈服。
Israel prepares for potential ground invasion of Lebanon, continues airstrikes on Hezbollah
Israel is preparing for a potential ground operation as its war with Hezbollah intensifies, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
"Today, we will continue, we are not stopping; we keep striking and hitting them everywhere," Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the chief of the General Staff, said Wednesday. "The goal is very clear -- to safely return the residents of the north. To achieve that, we are preparing the process of a maneuver, which means your military boots, your maneuvering boots, will enter enemy territory, enter villages that Hezbollah has prepared as large military outposts, with underground infrastructure, staging points and launchpads into our territory and carry out attacks on Israeli civilians."
Israelcontinued its offensiveagainst Hezbollah on Wednesday, conducting "extensive strikes" in southern Lebanon and the Begaa area, east of Beirut. The Israeli army said it struck 260 targets in Lebanon on Wednesday and attacked more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets in the last three days.
"We are continuing to attack, we’re not stopping, the opposite: we are in parallel preparing to continue," IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Wednesday.
On Wednesday, at least 81 people were killed and 403 were wounded in Israeli strikes, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
In total, more than 650 people -- including at least 50 children -- have been killed and over 1,700 others injured since Monday, according to the ministry.
Israel also called up thousands of troops to northern Israel on Wednesday, "for operations duties along the northern front that will allow us to continue the war,” according to Hagari.
Hezbollah fired a long-range ballistic missile at Tel Aviv for the first time on Wednesday, targeting Mossad headquarters, according to the group. Hezbollah said it blames Mossad for the recent assassinations of its top leaders andexplosions of members’ pagersand hand-held radios.
The missile was intercepted by aerial defense systems, according to the IDF. Israel also said it took out the missile launcher inside Lebanon.
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Over 90,000 people in Lebanon have been displaced over five days of Israeli airstrikes, according to the United Nations.
The number of displaced people in Lebanon as a result of the war could approach 500,000, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib warned Tuesday, stressing that "the war in Lebanon will not help the Israelis return to their homes and negotiations are the only way to do so."
As strikes continue to hit Lebanon, its largest hospital -- Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut -- is preparing for the worst, reopening multiple wings and organizing a massive triage unit. Flags were placed on the roof of the hospital with the letter "H," to identify it for planes flying overhead.
"I'm asking for this hospital not to be shelled," Dr. Jihad Saade, the general director of the hospital, said Wednesday. "We don't want the problem of Gaza to be repeated here, regarding shelling and bombing of hospitals. It's very dangerous if this hospital is targeted."
At least two people were injured after Iraq said it fired two drones at the Israeli port of Eilat "in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon." One of the drones was struck down and another drone hit near the port.
International leaders gathering at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week have called for deescalation between Israel and Hamas as well as Israel and Hezbollah, calling for a cease-fire agreement to end the war with Hamas and a diplomatic resolution to end the widening conflict with Hezbollah.
Mediators between Israel and Hamas are nowas far from a cease-fire dealas they have ever been, multiple senior U.S. officials told ABC News.
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan issued a rare joint statement on Wednesday, condemning "the Israeli aggression against Lebanon," warning that "Israel is pushing the region into an all-out war."
Halting "the dangerous escalation ... begins with stopping the Israeli aggression against Gaza," the ministers said in a statement released after they met on the sidelines of the U.N. on Tuesday.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a key financial backer of both Hamas and Hezbollah, also warned Wednesday that killing members of Lebanon's Hezbollah will not bring the group to its knees.
