Without the festering war in GazaIsrael is focusing on growing tension on its northern border as it struggles between belligerent and diplomatic dialectics. The Jewish State assures that it is trying to give priority to the negotiation process, so as not to immediately unleash a war of greater intensity in Lebanon, at a time when it is not subsiding in the Palestinian Strip. But at the same time, the reality indicates that the situation on the ground is not moving towards an agreement with the Shia guerrilla Hezbollah. Israel is deploying a larger number of forces on its northern border, some of which have been transferred from the Gaza region, while training its troops in the same northern area in order to be prepared in case the powder keg explodes.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has traveled to the United States to make a move with the help of his key ally. From there, he has assured that his first option is to reduce tension in the north to avoid a more head-on clash with Hezbollah, which has between 50,000 and 100,000 fighters and is a tougher nut to crack than Hamas. In recent hours, however, Gallant has launched one of those grandiose threats that will consume headlines within minutes: if war comes, Israel could send Lebanon “back to the Stone Age.”

The increasing boiling has led to a low-intensity war. In more than eight months of fighting, Israel has launched 6,142 attacks on Lebanese territory, compared to Hezbollah's 1,258, according to data collected by the Qatari network Al Jazeera from October 8 to June 21. According to the same source, the number of deaths is 21 on the Israeli side and 543 on the Lebanese side. Hezbollah announced the death of one of its men on Thursday after he was bombed by an Israeli drone while traveling on a motorcycle. The attack was also announced by Israeli military spokespeople, who also reported a drone strike by the Lebanese guerrilla without causing casualties in the coastal area near the Ros Hanikra border.

About 60,000 Israeli residents of the conflict zone have been evacuated for months and scattered across various regions of Israel. In the Lebanese case, there are almost 100,000 internally displaced persons. The Ombudsman of the Israeli Government, Matanyahu Englman, warns from his profile on the social network Gallant and the Minister of the Interior, Moshe Arbel. Englman adds that he has written to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “place an order

In this environment, the Israeli army is developing exercises with infantry and vehicles to prepare for a possible attack more serious threat from the other side of the border, the army said in a statement accompanied by images of day and night maneuvers. Some of these men are said to have arrived from the Gaza desert plain, according to Israeli Channel 12, and are carrying out maneuvers to face a possible war in a different scenario, such as the one dotted with mountains that separates the two countries.

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At the same time, the United States government on Thursday recommended that its citizens “seriously reconsider” any travel to Lebanon and warned that the security situation “could change rapidly.” The French government, for its part, assured that it was “extremely concerned” about the seriousness of the situation and asked the parties to exercise restraint, as reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The militia The Lebanese launched their largest offensive on June 12 on its southern neighbor with no fewer than 215 projectiles that reached the city of Tiberias, more than 60 kilometers from the border. The following week, the guerrilla leader Hasan Nasrallah assured that he does not want “total war” but that, if necessary, he will fight “without rules or borders.” His words include: threats to Cyprus, a member of the European Union, for the first timeif that island agrees to allow Israel, with which it has already conducted maneuvers, to use its bases to carry out attacks.

An escalation comparable to that in Gaza with its northern neighbor would be a blow to Israel in economic terms and in human lives. Plans to achieve their basic objectives in the Gaza Strip, namely ending Hamas and returning the hostages, are far from being realized. At the same time, the streets are rising in anger because many citizens believe that the military route cannot be prioritized over the humanitarian route and that we should focus on freeing the kidnapped. The demonstrations also point to the person considered primarily responsible for the fact that the conflict does not slow down after more than eight months and the signing of a ceasefire continues to disappear as soon as a certain optimism arises. It is none other than Benjamin Netanyahu.

The attacks and counter-attacks of one and the other are so-called Blue Line trying to protect the UN army On the Lebanese side of the country, since the first moments of the current war, which began on October 7, there have been attacks by Israel, backed by the United States, and by Hezbollah, backed by Iran. 37,000 lives in the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli military machine responded immediately that day by attacking the Strip after the massacre of some 1,200 people by Palestinian fundamentalists. The Shia guerrillas, who experienced their worst confrontation with Israel in 2006, quickly expressed their solidarity with Hamas with projectiles.

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