“From the beginning of the incident, everything stopped, other people went home and that’s it,” the driving force of the Ilan Levy taxi said. “We had the coronavirus, now we have [the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan] Nasrallah.
“I don’t know what things will be like. The stage wasn’t exceptional before. As of February, all arrivals at Ben Gurion Airport stopped. So now, in summer, we had tourists, Israelis, and from now on they’re gone.”
In a joint press release Monday from Kirya’s army headquarters in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Israel will continue to act to save Iran from a military position in Lebanon and Syria.
Speaking of Monday’s attack, Nasrallah seeks to drag Lebanon and Iran into a confrontation with Israel, Netanyahu said.
“We, the attempt to infiltrate our territory with wonderful gravity. Hezbollah and Lebanon have full duty to this incident and any attack left by Lebanese territory opposed to Israel,” the prime minister added, adding that Israel holds Lebanon accountable for the terrorist’s movements. organization founded on its soil.
“Hezbollah wants to know he’s playing with fire,” Netanyahu said.
“Nasrallah has already made a grave mistake in testing Israel’s determination to protect itself, and the Lebanese state has paid a high price. I recommend that you do not repeat this error,” he added, supposedly referring to Israel’s coup d’éte in the Second Lebanon War in 2006. .
Speaking after Netanyahu, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said: “Israel is more determined than ever to avoid any damage to its sovereignty, its infantrymen and indeed its citizens.”
“Lebanon and Syria are sovereign states and will have a painful duty for any terrorist act committed on their territory,” he added. “Anyone who dares to control the strength of the IDF will endanger themselves and the country from which they operate.”
He said Israeli security forces will continue to operate “where necessary, as close as possible.”
No Israeli infantryman was injured in the attempted attack on Mount Dov’s domain. The Israeli army denied Lebanese media reports that a Kornet guided anti-tank missile had been fired on an Israeli tank on Mount Dov, also known as Shebaa Farms, a domain that Israel, Lebanon and Syria claim as their own.
Later, Hezbollah denied having exhausted an attack or exchanged fire with Israeli forces, adding that it would react at a later date to the assassination of one of its fighters in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria last week.
In a loud reading on his al-Manar television channel, Hezbollah said: “Everything the enemy says in the media to thwart an operation to infiltrate Lebanese territory in occupied Palestine, as well as to communicate about the fall of the martyrs and hezbollah members wounded in a bombing operations that took position near the websites of Shebaa farms – it is certainly false.
Seeming to imply that the case is not over, the Lebanese terrorist organization said its reaction to the death of its fighter, Ali Kamel Mohsen Jawad, an alleged Israeli incursion into Syria “was definitely going to happen. Zionists just have to wait for their crimes to punish.”
Israeli defense officials mocked the terrorist group’s denial, saying the attempted infiltration was filmed through army security cameras and that the members who participated were armed. The Israel Defense Forces said they were contemplating posting images of the incident.
IDF spokesman Hidai Zilberman said at least some hezbollah mobile members had fled to Lebanon, but added, “We don’t know for sure about your situation right now.”
Al-Mayadeen’s Hezbollah-affiliated media reported that no Hezbollah fighters died when the attack failed.
Although the tense calm returned to both sides of the border after the incident and all security restrictions imposed on Israeli civilians were temporarily lifted, Zilberman said the army has a chance to continue, with the option of further attacks. The army maintained its own roadblocks in the region, which prevented IDF cars from traveling on safe roads along the border that were vulnerable to Attacks in Lebanon.
Despite Hezbollah’s official statement, news firm Reuters cited a member of the terrorist organization as attempted Hezbollah attack in retaliation for the death of its fighter in Syria.
The Israeli army first ordered citizens of communities near Mount Dov and along the Israeli-Lebanese border to remain within their homes, closed all roads in the domain, and ordered all farmers, hikers and tourists to leave all open spaces and farmland. After an hour, the IDF lifted these restrictions and allowed civilians in northern Israel to move freely in the domain.
– Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman contributed to this report.