The United Nations forces operating in southern Lebanon started their investigations into the Israeli bombing that targeted yesterday the area around the Ruwaisat Al-Alam site in the Lebanese hills of Kafarshuba. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspected his forces on the border, declaring that they are fully prepared to deal with all possible scenarios, Lebanese President Michel Aoun condemned the Israeli aggression.
Al-Jazeera correspondent reported - quoting Israeli sources - that Tel Aviv sent to Lebanon through international mediators a message that it claims is not concerned with the escalation of the front with Lebanon, but that the army that Netanyahu inspected after the escalation is ready for all scenarios.
Netanyahu said that the Israeli army is well prepared to deal with all possible scenarios, and we are continuing to work to thwart the Iranian military concentration in our region, adding that Israel will do everything necessary to protect itself, and I suggest Hezbollah to take into account this simple fact, which is that Israel is ready for all scenarios.
In the past hours, the reporter said, the Israeli army was keen to show the highest state of alert in which it placed itself, continuing to push military reinforcements to various locations near the border with Lebanon, but it remained far enough to not be in the range of Hezbollah fighters.
In a statement, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraie announced the reinforcement of the Northern Military Army Command (responsible for the borders with Syria and Lebanon) with advanced fire systems, information gathering and special forces.
The Al-Jazeera team managed to enter the village of Ghajar, which is located at the triangle of the Syrian-Lebanese and Israeli borders, after the Israeli army withdrew its soldiers from the permanent security barrier at the entrance to the village.
The Israeli army had instructed to reduce the military presence in familiar security locations, so that it would not turn into easy targets for Hezbollah, and the Israeli army generally prohibits entry to this village except for its residents.
The Israeli army announced yesterday, Monday, that it had thwarted an attack by Hezbollah, which it had tried to carry out on Israeli sites on the Lebanese border, but Hezbollah denied that it had carried out any operation in southern Lebanon, and said that Israel had "blessed the attack."
Last week, the Israeli army announced a state of alert in anticipation of an attack by Hezbollah, which said that Israel had killed one of its members in an air attack on a site near the Syrian capital, Damascus, on July 20.
As for the Lebanese side, whose upper defense council met, it seemed more concerned with the Corona virus (Covid-19), but was keen on the tongue of its Prime Minister Hassan Diab to call for caution, saying that the confrontation with Israel had not ended yet, and what I finally did was an escalation Serious.
As for Hizbullah, it was sufficient to announce what looks like linking a conflict to the near term, giving through its latest official statement an additional reason for everyone to await what it called the imperative of its military response.
On the other hand, the Lebanese government decided to assign the foreign minister to file a complaint with the UN Security Council against Israel against the background of the bombing that targeted a number of Lebanese regions yesterday.
Lebanese Minister of Information Manal Abdel Samad said, after a cabinet meeting, that the government has condemned the Israeli attacks that targeted Lebanon's sovereignty.