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for a truly strategic defeat of Hezbollah, Israel would have to close off the Lebanon-Syria border to prevent movement of fighters and weapons across the border.Pressure tactic. They're trying to get Hezbollah to stand down fast. And those airstrikes didn't help achieve that. Soon Hezbollah strikes will become very effective. Israeli missile defense system will be stressed. So they go with ground invasion option immediately.
Their demand is to ethnically cleanse southern Lebanon of Shia's which is ludicrous and Hezbollah won't agree to.
but this border is 394km long and far from south Lebanon... for comparison, the Gaza-Egypt border is only 12km long