FALCON POWERS – Israel is still awaiting Iran and Hezbollah’s response to the assassinations of Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. According to highly informed Israeli sources, the Arab world is expecting Iran to moderate its response against Israel, but the political and security leadership of the entity is fully convinced that Hezbollah will not change its plans to retaliate in the coming days, as reported by the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Sunday.
According to Israeli estimates, as confirmed by the newspaper, Hezbollah will be the initiator of the retaliation, while Iran is still studying the form and weight of its response to Haniyeh’s assassination on its soil, according to its statements.
For its part, the Hebrew website Walla saw that the expected response from the resistance in Lebanon, after the assassination of Fuad Shukr, occupies the entity and its media, noting that the Israeli estimates indicate that Hezbollah will not cause damage to the infrastructure in the maritime field, such as the drilling rigs, due to the fear of an Israeli reaction that may harm the national infrastructure in Lebanon, according to its claim.
The site talked about the high likelihood that Hezbollah will try to damage a ship, similar to the damage that hit the missile ship “Ahi Hanit” in the Second Lebanon War, or the naval bases.
According to the site, the level of readiness in the navy has been raised, with the reinforcement of detection and warning systems, training activities with intelligence, information technology and communications, the air force, and the strengthening of the relationship with the US army.
For its part, the Hebrew Channel 13 website said that the anticipation of Hezbollah and Iran’s response is constantly nerve-wracking, pointing out that Israel now estimates that while Iran is still studying its way of responding, Hezbollah is more determined to launch a more severe and larger attack, and is prepared to bear the risks and consequences of that, including the expansion of the fighting between it and Israel into a comprehensive war in the north.
Israeli estimates suggest that Hezbollah will try to target military sites with a weapon it has not used so far, and the attacks will be carried out separately, but the period between them will be short.
