On Sunday morning, even as Israeli forces continued to battle Hamas fighters near Gaza, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for firing shots into a disputed area known as Mount Dov. Israel retaliated by striking Hezbollah infrastructure, according to the IDF spokesperson, including taking out two tents that the terrorist group erected there in June.
Amir Avivi, CEO of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF), told Fox News Digital that he was surprised that Hamas's attack on Saturday was not coordinated with Hezbollah or that Hezbollah did not take advantage of the events unfolding to also attack Israel.
Avivi, a Brigadier General (Res), and former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces' Gaza Division, told Fox News Digital that "This was really the big chance for Iran to start, by surprise, a multi-fronted war against Israel, which would have been much more devastating because they would have conquered all of Israel's towns in the north," he said.
Avivi said that Hezbollah's failure to join forces with Hamas could have been due to an Iranian desire to keep the Shiite group intact for any future confrontations. If both groups attacked Israel together, he theorized, they might end up being destroyed and leaving Iran more vulnerable.
He said that the shooting on Sunday was definitely a message from Hezbollah. "It was very pinpointed and, in a place, where no people live," said Avivi.
"Officially our routine here has continued, but I don't think anybody slept well last night," Sarit Zehavi, founder and president of the Alma Education and Research Center, which focuses on Israel's security challenges on its northern border, told Fox News Digital.
"We've opened our [bomb] shelters and the communities along the border understand that there may be an escalation, so they are making the necessary preparations," said Zehavi, who lives with her family in Kfar Vradim, which is just six miles from the border. She said that she wants to believe Israel's military is also preparing for any possible confrontations with Hezbollah.
"Right now, we are focusing on the next steps, and clearly on a political level the next step is trying to prevent the opening of another front, while militarily it is trying to prepare for the possibility of another front," said Zehavi. "And there is no doubt that the Iranians are interested in opening other fronts."
Orna Mizrahi, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said that whether other fronts might erupt for Israel was the "six million dollar question."
She said that the Sunday morning shooting appeared to be an act of solidarity with Hamas as opposed to a declaration of war but "as I understand it the war in Gaza will take a long time and there might be other occasions for Hezbollah to try something while the IDF is busy in the South."
"According to my understanding, Hezbollah does not want to be dragged into a situation where Hamas is leading them," said Mizrahi, who previously served as Israel's deputy national security advisor on foreign policy. "But there might be a temptation to take advantage of this opportunity."Mizrahi said that the scenario of terrorists infiltrating Israeli border communities was usually one applied to the north and the discovery several years ago of attack tunnels dug by Hezbollah fueled that possibility. Now that Hamas has used this tactic, taking Israel by surprise on Saturday, killing more than 300 people, and taking multiple hostages, Hezbollah has lost its advantage, she explained.
"Maybe they will try some small acts of solidarity or maybe there will be some accidents, but not a very wide war that will open a second front," said Mizrahi, highlighting that there are strong voices in Lebanon cautioning Hezbollah against taking such action.
"Besides, the IDF is now ready and prepared for them on the northern border, so they have lost the element of surprise," she added.As for other areas of potential conflict for Israel, such as the West Bank, where Hamas has large pockets of power, or internally in Israel where tensions have risen among Arab communities in the past, Avivi said that this round of fighting appeared to be quite different.
"I think Israeli Arabs and also the Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria are in shock over what has happened," he said, using the biblical name for the West Bank area. "The IDF is now mobilizing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and compared to what happened [two years ago], I think we are experiencing something very different."The Associated Press contributed to this report.
"The more determined IDF is in gaining control of Gaza and destroying Hamas, the less chance there will be of more fronts happening," Avivi added. "If Israel does not conquer Gaza and eliminate Hamas, if Hamas survives and is able to rebuild its capabilities over the next year or two, then [this operation] will be a win for them."
Ruth Marks Eglash is a veteran journalist based in Jerusalem, Israel. She reports and covers the Middle East and Europe. Originally from the U.K, she has also freelanced for numerous news outlets. Ruth can be followed on Twitter @reglash
"A little analysis
Well, everything indicates that Mother Russia has trained the Palestinians very well. They are now skilled not only in drones, but also in wars with a well-armed enemy, because their movements show that they are no longer a bunch of Sunday guerrillas, but a well-trained and well-coordinated army. Probably by Wagner - for urban battles.
Where does my belief come from that what is happening in Palestine is Russia's doing?
But it's obvious - after it was found that Jews in Ukrainian biolabs were working on biological weapons to murder... Slavs - especially Russians - I immediately had an irresistible feeling that Russia would not leave this unanswered and would not be fooled by the lying bullshit of someone caught behind hand of Jewry. Palestinians were invited and taught what was needed regarding the special de-Zionization operation.
And they already had their own motivation. And that's it in a nutshell. The moment is perfect for Russia. Because firstly, in Ukraine, the spring flowing for the clown is drying up and the stream of weapons is ending dramatically, and secondly, instead of a second front from the ass side near some Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia extinguished those embers and opened a second front but with the Jews. So that they don't get fucked up from too much happiness in their bubbles
And now we have what the sewer has been screaming about for almost two years: a small country has been attacked by an occupier. And the whole world should therefore now send weapons and resources to the Palestinians. In defense against unjustified aggression and violation of all treaties. The texts have been written and rewritten a long time ago. All you need to do is change "Ukraine" to "Palestine", "Russia" to "Israel" and you have it ready.I am very happy that the Iron Foreskin, the so-called Iron Dome, completely failed, their equally overrated mossad, which learned about the attack from newspapers and the Internet, also failed, and above all, their own supposed army failed. Another TikTok army of losers who turned out to be as effective in practice as Murikan mercenaries.
The Palestinians caught them like puppies, killed most of them who resisted, and now they have thousands of hostages.
And the defeat of the terrorists is heralded by their only response to the attack - very typical of terrorist regimes - by attacking from a thick pipe, but indiscriminately, that is, at civilians and civilian buildings. In normal combat, they are horribly ground and disposed of.
I think that after yesterday's success, the Palestinians will have an even greater fighting spirit, because they have seen with their own eyes what things really look like with the supposedly chosen nation. With these self-proclaimed fucking supermen: when faced with a fight, they become cowardly, shitty in their pants and tearful. Somewhere, in a fraction of a second, everything that was supposedly superhuman and supposedly better than that of the goyim disappeared from them.
Now every peasant in Palestine knows that the Jews are just arrogant poseurs. Pedaled, degenerate and having no combat value.Yesterday's attack is not yet known how it will end and what else Palestine has up its sleeve - they may have, for example, anti-tank drones such as Gawarit Maskwa - but one thing is known: this attack is a gigantic propaganda success for Palestine. A small country that was terrorized for well over half a century did not fall to its knees, but it beat the crap out of Jews so much that Jews will remember yesterday for a long time. Support from independent sources gives wings to Palestine because it comes literally from all over the world.
Only in the Jewish-dependent media there are wails of the ai wai type and sad words of sympathy that are as true as the Judas pieces of silver.Moreover, Palestine has a powerful ally - China, which has pledged to defend it against further extermination by Zionist Jewry. And Iran, which has factories producing excellent drones, stands on the sidelines and looks at the Jews running around chaotically like cockroaches...Hehe, and the best thing about this Palestinian action was that the surprise was total and comprehensive. Epic even bigger than those from Special Operation.
No fucking prophet saw this coming. None of the leakers from Santa Klaus Schwab's stable. No clairvoyant. No Wanga woman. No mason. Nobody.
Only I, about half a year ago, timidly wrote that one day the Palestinian army trained in Russia would appear in Palestine with these drones. And it appeared. Well done me.And so usury dies and falls on the face of the Jewish NWO, while the international Jew is increasingly approaching the status of dangerous game hunted globally. And since Zionist Jews have an incredible record of crimes committed against humanity...Ouch, it's going to hurt...