Israel is preparing its response to theDeadly attack from Lebanon that to Mjdal Shams on the Golan killed 12 Druze children and teenagers on a football field. A first Israeli military reactionwith the tension now sky-high, there was last night but it was certainly not the final one. The time and extent of it is decided by the Political Security Cabinet summoned to the defense complex at Tel-Aviv from the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu just landed from the plane that brought him back from USA.
At the same table the Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the military leaders. Diplomatic sources at Washington it’s at Beirut they took the answer for granted even though – they added – they are working “to limit the attack in terms of size and location, avoiding large, densely populated cities, including Beirut”. The aim is to avoid triggering – with the counter-reaction of the Hezbollah – an open war. Meanwhile the chief of staff of theIdf Herzi Halevi held “a meeting to evaluate and approve the operational plans for the Northern Front”. Plans on the table of the Safety Cabinet which establish the methods and areas affected by the action.
Hezbollah Saturday he denied but also according to the White House behind the rocket that killed in Golan there is his responsibility. And now he fears the reaction and is preparing: according to Lebanese security sources he has already disarmed some key positions of his military deployment in southern Lebanon and in the eastern part of the Bekaa Valley. While all of Lebanon is also on alert with an airline that has postponed to Monday the arrival of six flights scheduled for this evening. And the Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib would have asked the USA to put pressure on Israel to limit the attack.
Meanwhile, the world is moving to avoid total war with Washington which is «working on a diplomatic solution along the Blue Line» to «end all attacks once and for all and allow citizens on both sides of the border to return home safely». Italy has also moved with the minister Tajaniin coordination with Little crosswhich is following the evolution of the crisis in contact with the Jewish and Lebanese governments, to “avoid a further escalation in military clashes in the region. A phase that could get out of control and cause further damage and painful deaths in an area affected by a conflict that should otherwise be totally defused”.
The night after the attack in Golan L’Israeli Air Force – in an initial reaction to the missile Falaq-1 of over 50 kilos of Iranian origin – “has hit a series of Hezbollah terrorist targets both deep in Lebanese territory and in southern Lebanon”. “Including – added the military spokesman – the weapons depots and the terrorist infrastructure in the areas of Chabriha, Borj El Chmali, Beqaa, Kfarkela, Rab El Thalathine, Khiam and Tayr Harfa». A large raid but not yet decisive. However, the rocket launches from Lebanon, which began on October 8th in solidarity with Hamas. The day after Majdal Shams – where the victims’ heartbreaking funerals took place and Israeli ministers were challenged – Hezbollah claimed to have launched two strikes in northern Israel in response to those in Lebanon. In aid of allies Hezbollah he took the fieldIran who warned of the consequences of “any new Israeli adventurism, under the pretext of retaliation for the missile attacks on the Golan Heights.” And while Rome there was no breakthrough on the truce and hostage agreement at the meeting between CIA, Mossad, Qatar And 007 Egyptians (after examining the new Israeli proposal, the matter was once again postponed to subsequent discussions), he returned to talk about Telegram the political leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh: has declared August 3rd a “national and international day of support for Gaza and the prisoners”, stressing “the importance and necessity of effective national, Arab, Islamic and international popular participation, and the continuity of all forms of demonstrations and marches and their continuation after August 3rd, until theZionist occupation will not be forced to stop its aggression to Gaza».