More serious exchanges of fire could lead to cross-border attack but it is a move that is fraught with risk
Mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Akil, who died in an Israeli strike, during the funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon.Mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Akil, who died in an Israeli strike, during the funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon.between Israel and Hezbollah this weekend, it is hard to be sure that the two sides have not already crossed the threshold of “all-out” war.
Though the number of missiles fired was said to be small, and mostly intercepted, images of the damage to homes suggest that some nevertheless breached Israel’s much-vaunted air defences – a troubling sign.used by Hezbollah, killing 42 and wounding more than 3,000, an attack for which Israel is widely believed to have been responsible. On Friday, an Israeli airstrike killed the
It is dangerous thinking to rely on the belief that Israel will decisively come out on top if the fighting escalates. But it also comes as Israel’s leaders have decided that months of tit-for-tat responses to Hezbollah attacks across the northern border have not brought about peace. About 65,000 Israeli civilians remain displaced from their homes as Hezbollah attacks have continued on a daily basis.
The hope is that both sides want to avoid an even more deadly ground war, though such is the environment that even that cannot be certain. Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, said on Sunday that when Aqil was killed, he and other leaders from Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit were discussing a surprise cross-border attack into Israel – “the same horrific, horrendous attack that we had on 7 October by Hamas”.
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