Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy announced on Wednesday that his country’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon had become an “increasing possibility,” hours after Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets at a town in northern Israel.
And move the site “The Times of IsraelHalevy said that the Israeli army has “a very clear goal with regard to Lebanon, which is to return the Israeli population” to their towns and cities in the north of the country, after they were displaced from them due to the mutual bombing with Hezbollah.
He continued: “I do not know when the war will start in the north… but I can tell you that the possibility of this happening in the coming months is much higher than it was in the past.”
With an anti-tank missile, a woman and her son were killed in northern Israel
An elderly woman and her forty-year-old son were killed in Israel as a result of an anti-tank missile attack claimed by Hezbollah on a town in the north of the Hebrew state, according to what Israeli newspapers reported on Sunday.
He noted that Israel “will apply the lessons it learned from the fighting in the Gaza Strip” if it embarks on a campaign to remove Hezbollah fighters and other militias that threaten his country’s security from the border with Lebanon.
Wednesday witnessed the launching of a barrage of rockets across the border, including about 20 rockets at the coastal border village of Rosh Naqoura, ending a rare period that lasted about 24 hours during which no rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza and Lebanon.
No damage resulted from the launching of the missiles, as the projectiles were intercepted, while some of them fell in open areas.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of the Hamas movement) in Lebanon claimed responsibility for the attack, noting that one of its members was killed as a result of an Israeli bombing.
Burning fronts in the Middle East… How likely is a regional war to break out?
The Middle East region is witnessing an “unprecedented escalation” on several fronts, against the backdrop of the war between Israel and the Hamas movement, “classified as a terrorist organization in the United States and other countries,” while specialists spoken to by the “Al Hurra” website are arguing about the repercussions of that escalation, and the extent of the possibility of it turning into a “war.” Wide regional.
As a result of the ongoing fighting, an estimated 80,000 Israelis have been displaced from the north, some evacuated on government orders and others due to their own fears, with no way of knowing when they will be able to return home.
Political and military leaders in Israel have repeatedly stated that Hezbollah must withdraw its militants from the border area north of the Litani River, as required by UN Resolution 1701 issued in 2006, and that this must be achieved either through diplomacy or through military force.
The war broke out between Hamas, which is classified as a terrorist organization, and the Israeli army on October 7, after the Palestinian movement’s fighters launched unprecedented attacks that killed 1,200 people, the majority of whom were civilians and including women and children, according to the Israeli authorities.
On the other hand, Israel responded with intense bombing and ground operations inside the Palestinian Strip, killing about 24,000 people, most of them civilians, including women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
2024-01-18 06:31:15
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