Efforts to bring peace to Gaza prove fruitless as Israel increases airstrikes on Lebanon and Hezbollah return fire with deadlier missiles
A man stands on the rubble of a building hit in an Israeli airstrike in the southern village of Akbieh, Lebanon.A man stands on the rubble of a building hit in an Israeli airstrike in the southern village of Akbieh, Lebanon.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, is in some disarray. First, hundreds of its operatives were wounded in the pager and subsequent walkie-talkie attack; then, commanders in its elite Radwan military unit were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on Friday. On Tuesday,Nevertheless, Hezbollah is also escalating.
Assaf Orion, a former brigadier-general in the Israel Defense Forces and its chief of strategy between 2010 and 2015, argues that the dynamic of the conflict is now “heading for more escalation”. He explained: “I don’t see Hezbollah succumbing and yielding. It’s a question of image and power, they cannot be seen as bending the knee.”
Israel, meanwhile, has been targeting missile launch sites in the south of Lebanon, but one four-year-old estimate by the Alma Centre, an Israeli thinktank, has suggested there are 28 more in Beirut in civilian areas. This means that a bombing campaign aimed at parts of the Lebanese capital cannot be ruled out in a further escalation, an uneasy prospect given Israel’s intense bombing of Gaza., and a small number of guided missiles, perhaps 150 to 400.
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