Tense ‘Israeli’ Border: The Next War Will Be Bloody

Local Editor

In a trip along the ‘Israeli'-occupied Palestinian border, opinions showed much tense and fear of the possible scenario that might emerge. In this regard, the Jerusalem Post reported:

Zehavi heads Alma, a local organization that briefs visitors about the security situation - which has grown a bit tense of late. "In the event of war with Hezbollah, Metulla is expected to be one of the communities evacuated."

As Zehavi spoke on Tuesday, Lebanese workers could be spotted in the distance, and tractors rolled down the streets of Metulla. It was a business-as-usual scene that belied the threats overshadowing the border region.

Although the Zionist entity has long avoided evacuating settlers during wars, it is looking to change that policy in the North. In addition to the threat posed by Hezbollah's stockpile of more than 100,000 rockets, the Zionist army is now concerned about the very real possibility of ground attacks against ‘Israeli' communities, the Post added.

"Hezbollah knows how to fight and how to move large forces," Zehavi said.

But many are worried that Hezbollah "may try to strike fear throughout the country."

"It will be a totally new battlefield than what we saw in 2006," she said, pointing out that the group has significantly increased its battlefield knowledge by fighting in Syria.

"Everything they learn in Syria, including from the Russians, they will put into use here."

The area near the Lebanese border has been flagged by the ‘Israeli' army as vulnerable to ‘enemy' infiltration and has seen two such incursions into ‘Israel' since 2009, Zehavi claimed. While the army hasn't found any tunnels in the North, the terrain allows fighters to hide ahead of an attack, she said, adding, "Hezbollah knows how to dig."

meanwhile, a six-meter tall steel and barbed wire "smart fence" stretching several kilometers with information collection centers and warning systems is to be built along two stretches of the Lebanese border. According to Zehavi, one can already see the fence being built between ‘Rosh Hanikra' and ‘Kibbutz Hanita', northeast of ‘Nahariya.'

But it is not only along those stretches that one can find construction aimed at protecting settlers. Fortified shelters that include bus stops have recently been constructed. Additional recently built barriers can be seen when driving toward the Syrian border on a short detour toward the town of Ghajar, which straddles the ‘Israel'-Lebanon border.

Thierry Laskart, a settler and tour guide who has lived in the Golan kibbutz of El Rom for seven years, said the intermittent fighting is normal in the area for the last few years.

"I'm more concerned by Hezbollah and the Syrian regime," he said.

Source: Jerusalem Post, Edited by website team