Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah are turning up evidence that the Lebanese organization has been working toward a strike on Israel with the “same intention” Hamas had last Oct. 7, retired Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi told Newsmax on Sunday.

“We have found a huge infrastructure of Hezbollah positions that were intended to enable [them] to storm Israeli towns just as Hamas did on Oct. 7, with the same intention to massacre Israelis in their towns, to rape women, to burn people alive, just as Hamas did,” Avivi, the founder and director of Israel’s Defense and Security Forum, told Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.”

The Israeli military, with its ground incursion in southern Lebanon, is “systematically dismantling all these positions, tunnels, the headquarters, all everything that we are finding along the border while also continuing to topple the leadership of Hezbollah, which most of it was already toppled,” Avivi added.

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