IDF chief approves plans for further fighting, says spokesperson

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Effie Defrin says its chief of general staff, Eyal Zamir, "has approved plans for further fighting both in Lebanon and in Iran". The chief of staff has also declared "all territory of southern Lebanon until Litani River line" as a "killing area for Hezbollah terrorists", he adds. Defrin says the IDF has killed over 1,700 Hezbollah members in its military operation in Lebanon so far, and that it is "going to continue and