As the world waits for Israel's expected retaliation against Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a video message to the people of Lebanon in which he called on them to 'free your country of Hezbollah.' NBC News' Claudio Lavanga has the latest on Early Today.
New divisions sent to join an expanding ground invasion, troops raising a flag outside a border village and an unmistakable warning to Lebanese civilians: Israel is sending increasingly mixed signals about the goals of a military operation it had insisted was limited. Concerns over the country's plans were mounting Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that Lebanese people either rise up against Hezbollah or face destruction like the Gaza Strip.
Noting the rising death toll in Gaza, where more than 42,000 people have now been killed, according to the local Health Ministry, Mekelberg said Netanyahu had intimated that thousands more people could be killed in Lebanon. More than 2,000 people have been killed and more than 1.2 million displaced in the country in the past year, according to Lebanese officials.
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