Fighting with Israel continues
Hezbollah “ready for confrontation” with US
October 11, 2023, 5:57 p.m
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Almost at the same time as Hamas’s major attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah is also launching attacks from Lebanon. Conflicts have broken out again and again in the past few days. Meanwhile, the Shiite organization is also sending threats to the USA.
The Hezbollah militia in Lebanon has signaled combat readiness after sending a US aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean. “The deployment of aircraft carriers to the region with the aim of boosting the morale of the enemy and its frustrated soldiers reveals the weakness of the Zionist military machine,” the group said in a statement. “The resistance is ready for confrontation.”
Hezbollah has great influence in the Mediterranean country north of Israel and is considered a close ally of Iran, is well-equipped militarily and is hostile to the Jewish state. Experts see the fact that the USA is moving an aircraft carrier, warships and several fighter jets to the eastern Mediterranean near Israel as a clear warning signal to the Hezbollah-Iran axis to stay out of the conflict.
Lebanon is north of Israel and the Gaza Strip is to the south. The Israeli side is worried about the emergence of a second front by Hezbollah. Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on Saturday, there have been repeated rocket attacks by Hezbollah along the demarcation line. According to the military, Israeli attack helicopters attacked targets in Lebanon. Armed soldiers from the UN observer mission Unifil have also been patrolling the so-called blue line for years.
A United Nations Peacekeeping Force (UNIFIL) vehicle drives on a street in Khiam, southern Lebanon.
(Photo: REUTERS)
Clashes at the border
Hezbollah continued to attack Israeli positions from southern Lebanon on Wednesday. A statement said that an Israeli post near the border village of Dhaira had been attacked “with guided missiles.” It is “a response to Zionist aggression on Monday.”
Three Hezbollah members were killed in Israeli air strikes on Monday. In response, the Israeli army said it was bombing Lebanese territory “in response to anti-tank missiles targeting Israeli soldiers.”
Arye Sharuz Shalicar, spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), said in an interview with ntv.de about the danger of a second front emerging in the north: “First of all, the IDF has already been preparing for a multi-front war in recent years, because… assumes that such a danger is very real.” He also spoke of “devastating consequences” if Hezbollah “joins the terror bandwagon of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”