The Israeli occupation army kept its forces on standby on the Syrian and Lebanese fronts, in the wake of air strikes by Israeli fighters on targets of Syrian forces in the Quneitra countryside, while the Israeli Ministerial Council for Political and Security Affairs holds a meeting for the first time in a month.
The Israeli army said that these raids came in response to the planting of a cell of 4 explosive devices near the ceasefire line in the occupied Syrian Golan.
A military source told Al-Jazeera that what happened in the Golan Heights does not reduce tension on the border with Lebanon, but rather increases it, noting that the Golan cell cannot be linked to the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Last night, Israeli fighters raided reconnaissance sites, means of collecting information, anti-aircraft guns, and command and control means of the Syrian regime forces.
Al-Jazeera correspondent Elias Karam - from the Israeli-Lebanese border - said that the Israeli army appears at the height of its preparedness and preparedness along the borders with Lebanon and on the Golan front, which means that it is an open front and is a candidate for all possibilities, including the comprehensive confrontation.
The reporter quoted the Israeli army as saying that its forces remain on standby, and continues to reinforce its positions along the border with heavy artillery, tanks, armored vehicles and army personnel in anticipation of any emergency, indicating that the goal of these reinforcements is the ability to quickly respond to any attack carried out by Hezbollah, in addition to preparedness The possibility of things deteriorating into a comprehensive confrontation.
The correspondent stated that the raids launched by the Israeli army on sites belonging to the Syrian regime in Quneitra yesterday, may carry Israeli messages that the planting of explosive devices near the ceasefire line has not only ended with the killing of members of this cell, but the Syrian regime army is responsible for this operation Israel says that it is responsible for everything that emanates from its lands.
According to the correspondent, Israel believes that Iranian militias and Hezbollah groups are trying to engage in military action through the first legion of the Syrian regime's army in the Golan, and by recruiting Syrian civilians in villages near the ceasefire line, in order to open a new military front against Israel from the Golan.
Elias Karam added that Israel sends a signal to the Lebanese government that any attack by Hezbollah targeting Israel will be the response to it by targeting economic and strategic facilities affiliated with the Lebanese state, and this is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister have threatened on more than one occasion.
The reporter pointed out that the current policy in Israel appears to be trying to impose new rules of engagement, and to define new lines for the formula of mutual deterrence between them and Hezbollah.
Politically, the Israeli Ministerial Council for Political and Security Affairs will hold a meeting for the first time in a month, to discuss the security situation on the northern borders with Lebanon and Syria and the southern borders with the Gaza Strip. The council will listen to officials of the security services and discuss developments in the security and political situation.
Walid Al-Omari, director of the Al-Jazeera office in Jerusalem, said that the meeting reflects the importance attached by the Israeli government to the worsening situation on the borders with Syria and Lebanon, as well as with the Gaza Strip, adding that decisions are not expected to announce this meeting.
Al-Omari pointed out the conditions that the Netanyahu government's internal synthesis is going through in light of the general budget, the spread of the Corona virus in Israel, and the protests calling for Netanyahu to resign.