Hezbollah’s bombing of northern Israel targeted the Rafael company, which specializes in electronic means and equipment, and the Ramat David base and airport, and led to the destruction of several homes.
This development sparked a wave of analyses in Israel about the impact of this missile attack by the party on the course of the drip strategy that the party has been following since October 8 in support of the Gaza Strip and its resistance.
Orna Mizrahi, from the Institute for National Security Studies, believes that Hezbollah is trying to test Israel between an expected harsh response from it and the continuation of the war of attrition that it has been waging against Israel for about a year, and it will try to maintain the pace of daily attacks that it has adopted.
A valuable opportunity
Political analyst and Arab affairs specialist Yoni Ben Menachem considered that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah did not “budge” from his positions regarding stopping the fighting in the Gaza Strip and did not change his opinion, which means that Israel will be forced to escalate military operations in Lebanon in order to exert additional military pressure on him to accept a retreat.
Channel 13 analyst Almog Boker said, “Israel has a historic opportunity that may not be repeated, to set Hezbollah back decades and create a different reality for the residents of the north, a reality that we cannot reach in an agreement,” he said.
Cautions
In turn, Reserve Major General Jack Naria considered that Hezbollah knows very well what it is doing. It wants to drag the occupation army to the area where it has superiority, which is southern Lebanon.
Kan Channel quoted the former spokesman for the occupation army as saying that if a war broke out with Lebanon, the city of Tel Aviv would look like the settlement of Sderot in southern Israel.
Surprises
Some in Israel have not overlooked what might happen on other fronts, including Yossi Melman, who wondered if the army and the home front hold out and are able to wage war on two fronts, is there a guarantee that the war will be limited to these fronts only? The West Bank is already boiling, and with the oil being poured on its fire as a result of settler terrorism, it is on the verge of launching the third intifada.
While the correspondent of the Israeli Walla website warned of surprises, he said that everyone is looking at the air and land, but the occupation army must prepare for surprises that may come from the sea as well.
Journalist Udi Segal raised the question that had been temporarily forgotten amid the escalation: How can the “residents of the north” be returned? What happened this morning is considered an increase in the level of escalation, according to Segal, who added that the big question we are asking ourselves this morning, and we do not have an answer to it because the leadership does not explain it, is how can this thing return the residents of the north to their homes?
