US officials showed your worry given the possibility that the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, can bring war to Lebanon for pure political survivalas reported this Sunday by the newspaper Washington Post. More than a dozen members of Joe Biden’s Administration and diplomats spoke with journalists from the newspaper to discuss the “Delicate situation“military between Israel and Lebanon.
Two of these sources also warned that one new secret evaluation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) concluded that it will be difficult for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) succeed in a possible raid on Lebanon because the Israel’s military assets and resources are too spread out for the conflict in Gaza.
All of this, the newspaper points out, amid internal criticism of Netanyahu for his government’s failure to prevent the Hamas attack on October 7, which killed some 1,200 people and left more than two hundred hostages and unleashed a war that has already accumulated more than 22,300 Palestinian deaths.
Thousands of Israelis They went out to protest on Saturday night in the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities in the country to demand the release of the hostages that the Islamist group Hamas continues to hold captives in Gaza and to demand new general elections, even in times of war.
It was about the first demonstration against the Government important since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7. The protesters consider that the current Government is the guilty of the attack carried out by Hamas and call for Netanyahu to resign and to hold new elections.
The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenleft on Thursday night for the Middle East for the fourth time since Israel started the war in Gaza and its main objective is to prevent the war from expanding to Lebanon. Blinken will arrive in Israel on Monday, where he will discuss specific measures to “avoid an escalation,” said his spokesman, Matt Miller, at the beginning of the trip.
Hezbollah against escalation
According to US officials consulted by the Washington Post, Hezbollah itself wants to avoid a major climb and the leader of the group, Hasan Nasrallah, is trying to stay away from a broader war. Officials fear a full-scale conflict between Israel and Lebanon overcome the bloodshed of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war because the group is better armed.
Israeli aviation attacked positions of the Shiite group Hezbollah in Lebanon this Sunday, after intercepting a “hostile aircraft” that had entered Israel, the Israeli Army reported in a statement.
Hezbollah launched on Saturday at least 62 projectiles against one of the main intelligence centers in northern Israel, in its first response to the assassination on Tuesday of the number two of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Saleh al Arourion the outskirts of Beirut in a bombing attributed to Israel.
The Israeli-Lebanese border lives its increased tension since the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006following a escalation of attacks by pro-Palestinian militias the day after the outbreak of war between the Islamist group Hamas and Israel in Gaza on October 7.
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Hostilities have increased even more after the bombing that killed Saleh Al Arouri, deputy head of Hamas, in Beirut on Tuesday, in an action attributed to Israel, which neither recognized nor denied the operation.
Israel has deployed more than 200,000 soldiers on its northern border, where violence has also caused the displacement of thousands of inhabitants, with some 80,000 people evacuated from communities in northern Israel and more than 70,000 who have fled southern Lebanon.