The Israeli “Wala” website said that the occupation army is preparing a plan to potentially shelter about 100,000 people on the northern border, in light of the escalating tension with the Lebanese Hezbollah.
The website explained that the aforementioned shelter plan comes in preparation for their evacuation in light of the possible escalation.
In turn, the mayor of Haifa said that residents should stock up on food in the event of a war breaking out with Lebanon.
The intensity of the mutual missile bombardment on the southern Lebanese border escalated, reaching tens of kilometers on both sides of the border deep into Lebanon and Israel, which threatens the escalation to turn into a broader confrontation with the Israeli bombing reaching Hezbollah’s stronghold in the southern suburb of Beirut.
The confrontations have reached their peak since Israel assassinated Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and 6 of the movement’s cadres, in an air strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on January 2. It also assassinated the prominent Hezbollah field leader, Wissam Tawil. Through a raid that targeted his car in southern Lebanon on the ninth of the same month
Israel has threatened to escalate its fight with Hezbollah if an agreement is not reached within weeks, according to what the American Washington Post quoted Western and Lebanese officials last Friday.
Meanwhile, the exchange of missiles continues between the two sides, as Israel announced that 3 shells had fallen in open areas in the Western Galilee, fired yesterday, Sunday, from southern Lebanon.
Late yesterday evening, Sunday, Hezbollah announced that at midnight tonight, it targeted, with missile weapons, an Israeli force in the vicinity of the Zarit barracks, which “led to confirmed casualties among its ranks.”
The party added – in a statement – that the Israeli force was preparing to carry out an aggression inside Lebanese territory, directly before it was targeted.
2024-01-22 07:54:35
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