Unable to hold back, Israel and Hezbollah move closer to full-scale war

UN Secretary-General says full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah could be “a catastrophe”. However, for David Kamari, who lives under almost daily gunfire on the Israeli side of the border, it would be a solution.

Last week, a Hezbollah rocket fired from Lebanon landed in Kiryat Shmona’s entry zone within its borders, razing its area to various playgrounds and filling it with debris.

He picks out the open holes where shrapnel cut through the walls, missing him by several inches. And heading towards the hills above us, the place where the Hezbollah-controlled border begins.

He said, “Every day, every night: bomb. (It’s a) problem.” “And I was born here. If you stay here one night, you’ll go crazy.”

David is still living in his debris-filled field, with pieces of shrapnel entangled in the remains of his TV. Outside lie the blackened remains of his car, charred by the fire that swept across his front backyard near the rocket collision.

Most of the crowds in Kiryat Shmona were cleared after the Hamas attack on 7 October, as Hezbollah rockets began raining down aid to their Palestinian ally.

There is no doubt that David is one of the few who stayed. “I have lived here for 71 years,” he said. “I won’t go. I was in the army, I’m not afraid.”

His resolution? “Fight with Hezbollah, kill Hezbollah,” he says.

Israel is again headed towards dehydration HezbollahKilling senior commanders and hitting additional targets within Lebanon.

Hezbollah has sent large numbers of drones and missiles around the border this week, and there have been more warnings from both sides. Earlier this year, the gang published drone photos of military installations and civilian infrastructure within the Israeli city of Haifa.

The tricky negotiations have long been part of a mutual strategy of deterrence, with both sides seen wary of an all-out war.

However, as the tit-for-tat war continues, and more than 60,000 Israelis are being evacuated from their properties in the north, there are signs that Israel’s leaders and its voters are increasingly likely to support military options to push Hezbollah back from the border. Are ready. Power.

The mayor of Kiryat Shmona, Avichai Stern, shows me the website where a rocket hit a boulevard near his workplace last year.

Mayor Stern said, “I don’t think any country in the world will accept daily shootings against its own citizens.”

“And sitting here like lambs to the slaughter, waiting for the day when they attack us as we saw in the South, is not acceptable. Everyone understands that the choice is between war now or war later. Is.”

The dangerous standoff here hinges largely on the war, with Israel fighting more than 100 miles (160 km) to the south in Gaza.

A ceasefire there would also calm tensions in the north, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing to escalate both conflicts, pledging his far-right government allies to damage Hamas before ending the Gaza war.

Earlier this year, an Israeli army spokesperson had also said that this facility would not be realistic.

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told Israeli TV, “The idea that we can destroy Hamas or make Hamas disappear is misleading the public.”

On the Lebanese side of the border, where more than 90,000 people were evacuated, the mood among those who remain is equally grim.

Fatima Belhas lives near Jabal el Bottom, a few miles (7 km) from the Israeli border.

She says, in the early days, when Israel bombed the area, she trembled with fear, but she has since recovered from the bombing and does not think of moving.

“Where will I go?” He requested. “(The others) have relatives somewhere else. But how can I impose something like this on someone? We don’t have money.”

He said, “Maybe it’s better to die with honor at home.” “We grew up protesting. We will not be driven out of our land like the Palestinians.”

Hussein Ablan recently abandoned his village of Mays al Jabal, about 6 miles (10 km) from Kiryat Shmona, on the Lebanese side of the border.

Whereas with irregular communication and electricity and almost negative functioning shops it had become impossible, he said.

He told the BBC that the few Bundel families left there were originally used people who wanted to give up their properties and farms.

However it subsidized Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel.

“Everyone in the south (Lebanon) has been going through aggression for years, but has come out stronger,” he said. “It is only through resistance that we become stronger.”

As difficult as this border war is for people on each side, a full-scale war would take devastation on an unparalleled scale.

Some citizens of Beirut are packing suitcases and guarding passports in the event of an all-out war, and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said this year that they could not be released anywhere in Israel.

Hezbollah is a well-armed, well-trained army, which receives subsidies through Iran; Israel is a complex military power and has the United States as a best friend.

Full-scale war could be catastrophic for each side.

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said it would be a “disaster beyond imagination”.

The disease is the perfect way for Israel to stop the rockets and bring its people back to the country’s lonely northern gardens.

When its best friend Hamas is being attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza, the disease is the perfect way for Hezbollah to stop the rockets.

The longer this situation continues, the greater the risk of miscalculations increasing, and the less power the Israeli government will have to get to the bottom of the situation.

The Hamas attacks on October 7 changed the security calculus in Israel. Many people who own property near the border – and some in power – say the future pledge with Hezbollah does not go far enough.

Tom Perry lives in Kibbutz Malkia on the Lebanese border fence. He was eating out with friends when a Hezbollah rocket landed in front of his house earlier this week.

“I think the Secretary-General’s warning is correct – (the war) would be a catastrophe for the region,” he said.

“But unfortunately it seems we have no other choice. No agreement lasts forever, because they want death for us. We are doomed to war forever, unless Israel eliminates Hezbollah. Doesn’t do it.”

He says that after the October 7 attacks, Israel’s leaders have lost all credibility and have no way to deviate from the order.

“They need to step down – all of them. The biggest failure of our military and our country was October 7, and they were our leaders. We don’t need these leaders.”

Demand for political trade is likely to increase when Israel’s conflict ends.

Many believe Israel’s prime minister is playing for momentum: caught between growing demands for a ceasefire in Gaza and increasing aid for the war in the north.