Hezbollah is planning to launch a “calculated strike” on Israel in response to a series of alleged Israeli raids, but will seek to avoid an all-out war with the Jewish state, sources close to the Lebanese terrorist group told Reuters on Tuesday.
One Hezbollah source said a measure was “being arranged in a way which wouldn’t lead to a war that neither Hezbollah nor Israel wants.”“The direction now is for a calculated strike, but how matters develop, that’s another thing,” the source added.
Tensions between Hezbollah and Israel have skyrocketed since Saturday night, when two of its members were killed in an Israeli strike in Syria, and drones crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut, in an incident also blamed on Israel. On Monday, Lebanon claimed Israeli drones attacked a Palestinian base in the country’s east.
Israel took credit for the Syria raid, but has not commented on the other strikes. The model of UAV used in the Beirut attack has raised considerable questions about the drones’ provenance, with analysts suggesting they could be Iranian.
Israel said the strike inside Syria had thwarted a plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to launch explosives-laden drones into Israel, overseen by powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who heads the IRGC’s expeditionary Quds Force.
At least five people were killed in the strike, including two Hezbollah members that Israel identified and said were trained in Iran, and an Iranian combatant.
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