The Jerusalem Post reports: “Israel will remove the entire Shiite axis threat led by Iran and Hezbollah, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said Tuesday night during a visit to an IDF air defense command center.

During a visit with Air Defense Chief Brig. Gen. ‘K’ to Battalion 947 of the air defense apparatus, Zamir said that the current conflict has morphed from seeking regime change in Iran to also finishing off Hezbollah as a decades-long threat to Israel.

‘This is one axis, a Shiite axis,’ he emphasized. For decades, and even more intensely since 2017, Iran sought to encircle Israel with a ‘ring of fire’ to weaken and possibly destroy it…”