An Israeli military commander said Friday that troops in the country’s north were preparing for “a decisive offensive” against Lebanon’s Hezbollah after months of deadly cross-border exchanges. Israeli forces have traded near-daily fire with Hamas ally Hezbollah since the Gaza war began on October 7. Major General Ori Gordin, Israel’s commanding officer in the north, told troops that “we have already eliminated more than 500 terrorists in Lebanon, the great majority of them from Hezbollah”, an Israeli army statement said. According to an AFP tally, more than nine months of fighting have killed…