Lebanon ceasefire calls lack clout, says senior military expert, Col Phil Ingram

Calls for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel- Hezbollah conflict are toothless, according to Col Phil Ingram, a former British Army Intelligence Officer and NATO planner. Col Ingram said the call for a ceasefire once you have started a military operation of the scale that the Israeli appeared to have started in southern Lebanon against Hezbolla is going to be very difficult to stop. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unlikely to alter his course based on external pressures, says Ingram, as his government is driven by internal political dynamics and the continuing threat from Hezbollah. In this interview with NSN, Col Ingram outlines what it would take to evacuate 10,000 British citizens out of Lebanon.