The Israeli media focused its discussions on developments on the northern front, where Israelis, including former security officials, warned that Israel was heading into very big trouble.
Israeli channels broadcast scenes of burning fires in the areas targeted by Lebanese Hezbollah missiles. Channel 14 reported, “The north is under fire… Hezbollah fired about 100 missiles… huge fires and a successive expansion of the circle of fire in Nahariya, Safed, and Haifa Bay.”
Channel 14 quoted Tal Levit, a member of settlement guard groups, as saying, “Former Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi said: If something happens on Lebanon’s side towards Israel, Lebanon will return to the Stone Age… and currently we are the ones who feel that we have returned to the Stone Age.”
Yaakov Amidror, the former head of the National Security Council and the Research Division at AMAN, said, “If they go to war in Lebanon, it will be a very, very difficult war, but at the end there must be very, very clear results in terms of Hezbollah being subjected to a crushing blow.”
He called on officials in Tel Aviv to slow down and act rationally regarding opening a front with Lebanon, saying: “We must have a great duty to end the fighting in Gaza and look at our situation and verify that we have sufficient strength to move to Lebanon immediately.”
Regarding whether Israel is able to go to an escalation with Lebanon, Israel Hasson, a former deputy head of the Israeli internal security service “Shin Bet,” asked: “What guarantees that the battle in the north will not continue with ferocity for 8 months as well,” indicating that “without Political horizon: The State of Israel is going into great trouble, and we are living its diary.”
According to Amos Yadlin, former head of the Military Intelligence Division, three conditions must be met for Israel to move to the attack in the north. First, the decision must be made, and the attack must be coordinated with the United States of America. He suggested that this will not happen before the American elections. Third, it must be sure that the army has The Israelis had enough troops and ammunition, and the southern front (Gaza) was over.
Regarding American efforts to prevent the outbreak of an all-out war in the north, Moriya Asraf-Wolberg, political affairs correspondent for Channel 13, said that National Security Council Chairman Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who is close to the prime minister, may arrive in Washington in the coming days to hold political and security meetings with officials. American administration.
