TEHRAN - The Israeli regime is exploring new measures in a desperate attempt to distract the world from its bloodbath against children in Gaza and lower the rising international pressure to cease the war. 

Israeli shelling has killed one Lebanese soldier in the town of Odeissa in southern Lebanon. 

It marks the first killing of a Lebanese army soldier by the Israeli military since October 7. 

The Lebanese army said in a statement that three others were wounded close to the border with the occupied Palestinian territories. 
Since October 8, one day after Hamas staged Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the Hezbollah resistance movement and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire on a daily basis across the Blue Line, that separates Lebanon from the occupied Palestinian border. 

Having failed to destroy Hamas or end the salvos of Palestinian missiles landing in Tel Aviv, the Israeli military is panicking under immense pressure by Israeli settlers to rescue the captives.  

It is pondering the idea of flooding Hamas tunnels, thereby potentially killing its own captives who, by Israeli officials’ admission, are being held captive underground, but the regime does not know where all the Hamas tunnels are located. And neither does it appear to care about the captives. 

The idea of sending the Lebanese army to Southern Lebanon at the end of the regime's 2006 war on Lebanon was an Israeli demand to inspect and monitor Hezbollah's weapons, something that was swiftly scratched off the list by the Lebanese. 

Critics wanted the soldiers to be hidden in areas out of sight of the Israeli military, a demand that was rejected by the regime. 

If the Lebanese soldiers were hidden, like Hezbollah, it would have offered an excuse for the Israeli military to say they confused a Hezbollah jeep for an army jeep and attacked it by accident. 

The Israeli military has no excuses. 

When the Israeli regime demanded the Lebanese army be deployed in Southern Lebanon, the regime also demanded all the points of their bases?, posts, and paths that they would travel to and from on Lebanese territory. 

All these maps and documents were officially submitted to the Israeli military so that they could distinguish between the Lebanese army and Hezbollah. 
The regime bears all the consequences for targeting the Lebanese army, deliberately killing a Lebanese soldier and pushing the northern front to a new phase. 

The attack on the Lebanese army also follows an attack on UNIFIL troops. 

UNIFIL later posted a statement on social media that said: "During the last days, we have seen a rapid and alarming increase in violence. We continue to urge those exchanging fire along the Blue Line to end the cycle of violence, which could lead to devastating consequences for people on both sides of the Blue Line." 

The Blue Line is the demarcation line between Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian border, marking the point to which Israeli forces withdrew when they left south Lebanon in 2000. 

Lebanese leaders and politicians may view this Israeli strike as an attack on the state of Lebanon because the army is considered the backbone of the state. 

The occupation regime wants to increase the range of the exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli military so that more soldiers and civilians are killed on both sides in an attempt to sway global scrutiny away from its barbaric acts against children in Gaza. 

This would also allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's initial cabinet who are fully responsible for the October 7 attack, to convince the Israeli public that their military is defending them from Hezbollah's long-range precision missiles? that would kill Israelis and destroy their power plants? and other vital infrastructure.

But even this scenario will fail to end international condemnation against the Israeli war on Gaza, which Netanyahu's ministers are desperately trying to extend to avoid the consequences that unfolded on October 7. 

This has been evident during the past few days, where Netanyahu has expanded the regime's shameful propaganda campaign about October 7, demanding why world leaders keep silent on stories about rape incidents? 

Perhaps they are silent because the stories are fake. The so-called evidence of October 7 is something that the Israeli regime is extremely professional in orchestrating. 

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO END THE WAR ON GAZA? 

The rising division and anger among the Israeli settler population toward their cabinet is a factor but not enough to end the war on Gaza. 

The only way that can force the Israeli war on Gaza to end is the increasing death toll among Israeli troops and reservists. 

This war will continue until the Israeli military has had enough and begins to withdraw its forces from Gaza. 

So far, an estimated 1,000 Israeli soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon and Gaza, and 10,000 others injured. 

Hezbollah does not reveal everything that it knows. It is, however, well informed of its major achievements on the border. 

The resistance in Southern Lebanon and Gaza is fully aware that the achievements against the Israeli military are larger in Gaza than in Southern Lebanon. 

Every day in the Gaza Strip, dozens of Israeli soldiers are being killed and scores of others (some say hundreds) are being injured. Almost daily videos emerging from the enclave show crowds of Israeli ground forces being blown up. 

The regime deceptively announces three, five, or seven soldiers have been killed on a daily basis, which essentially doesn't add up. 

The Israeli military cannot endure this longevity of bloodshed. It will be forced to withdraw its forces from Gaza. It may try to restrict its operations to limited precision strikes from the air. 

But even this will not stop the Palestinian resistance from firing rockets and missile salvos at Tel Aviv. 

BACKGROUND 

Following the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon that failed to achieve its goal of disarming Hezbollah, a formula was set up to establish the presence of 15,000 Lebanese soldiers and 10,000 UNIFIL troops in southern Lebanon. 

This was one of the initiatives between Lebanon, the Israeli occupation regime and mediators to end the war.  

In the final days of the war, the Lebanese army was deployed to the border areas in a bid to establish calm. 

Many in Lebanon criticized the decision to send the Lebanese army to open areas, whereas Hezbollah forces are out of Israeli sights in secret locations. 
Another point of contention was and still is that the Lebanese army lacks any arms to respond to an Israeli attack. 

It is a fact that Lebanon's army has no weapons with the exception of Kalashnikovs?, because the United States refused to accept a Lebanese army backed by conventional weapons like all state armies around the world. 

Iran offered warfare-type weapons to the Lebanese Army. Negotiations took place with Russia to deliver battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, combat helicopters, combat aircraft warships, air defense systems, large-caliber artillery systems and more, but this was all thwarted by the Pentagon. 

Russia did offer a large batch of Kalashnikovs, which the Lebanese army already possesses, and Lebanon did accept this but later kindly rejected it. 

How can an army defend its country with Kalashnikovs? 

And some still question why Hezbollah should be disarmed.