Hezbollah's attack on Safad... messages, implications, and escalation scenarios.
Observers believe that Hezbollah's targeting of a military base in Safed, which is 15 kilometers from the Lebanese border, comes within the framework of its transfer of the confrontation to a new square. Writer and political analyst Faisal Abdel Sater believes Hezbollah's operation is part of a show of force to show Israel that it will not stand idly by in the face of the imminent Israeli attack on the city of Rafah.