Hizbullah
Injures Four In North - Israel Faces Four Front War Hizbullah
Katusha rocket launcher on the Israel Lebanon border ready to attack civilians.
By
Joel Leyden Israel News Agency
Update
15:30: Israel Prime
Minister Olmert calls Lebanon cross-border terror attack "act of war."
IDF calling up reserve units for Northern border activity. "The events this
morning are not terror attacks but actions of a sovereign state that attacked
Israel for no reason. The Lebanese government, of which Hezbollah is a member,
is trying to destabilize regional stability. Lebanon is responsible and it will
bear responsibility. "These are difficult days for the state of Israel and its
citizens. There are elements in the north and south that threaten our stability
and challenge our stamina and determination. They will fail and pay a dear price
for their actions." - Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Update
13:30: Israel confirmed that two IDF soldiers were
captured by Hezbollah guerrillas during clashes across the Lebanese border on
Wednesday, and said it held Lebanon "directly responsible" for their fate and
safe return. "The Lebanese government is responsible for the fate of the Israeli
soldiers, and must take immediate action to locate them without harming them and
return them to Israel," the Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement. Jerusalem----July
12.....Israel awoke this morning to the news that residents of the northern Israel
- Lebanon border town of Shtula had been wounded by a heavy barrage of Hizbullah
terror Katyusha and mortar rockets. The
rocket which fell on a house in Shtula, sent Magen David Adom ambulances rushing
to Nahariya hospital with residents of the north scurrying to air raid shelters.
The Israel Defense Forces said that the attack was a Hizbullah response to Israel's
early Wednesday attempted strike on top Hamas terrorist Mohammad Deif in Gaza.
In addition to
the terror rocket attack Hezbollah is claiming that they kidnapped two IDF soldiers
on the Northern Israel border. A CNN correspondent in Beirut has confirmed
that he has heard celebratory gunfire in the streets of the Lebanon capital. Hezbollah
announced the claim on Al-Manar, its television station in Lebanon, after Israel
aircraft struck terrorist positions in southern Lebanon in response to rocket
attacks on northern Israel communities. The
northern border has been on high alert since IDF Operation Summer Rains began.
Two weeks ago, IAF planes made low flyovers at Syrian President Bashar Assad's
summer palace reportedly while he was in residence. A month and a half ago, Israel
launched a massive retaliatory strike after Hizbullah fired a series of Katyushas
at Israel. On
the Southern front, in a joint IDF and ISA action early this morning, the IDF
targeted a structure in the northern Gaza Strip, used as a hideout by several
Hamas terrorists. The men, senior members of the Hamas terror organization, are
responsible for terror attacks, including the launching of Qassam rockets. Following
intelligence information regarding imminent terror attacks planned by these senior
terrorists, it was decided to target them and to prevent future attacks. An
IDF spokesperson told the Israel News Agency that they will continue to act with
determination against terrorist organizations and terror infrastructure in order
to create the conditions for the return of IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit and to stop terror
attacks and the launching of rockets from Gaza towards Israel. As
Israel tracks down the terrorists in Gaza responsible for firing rockets into
civilian towns in Southern Israel, the IDF is carrying out humanitarian operations.
Over the past three days, more than 2,000,000 liters of fuel and 496 tons of natural
gas were transferred into the Gaza Strip through the Nahal Oz crossing. Israel
now faces a four front war. Hezbollah and Lebanon in the North. Syria and Iran.
Islamic terror cells in the West Bank and continuing action in Gaza. The Israel
Defense Forces remain on high alert throughout the country. IDF reservists expect
to be called up within the coming weeks. A
war with Hezbollah in Lebanon and fighting in the West Bank would create a high
demand for reserve manpower for the IDF, while Iran and Syria would be taken out
with surgical Israel Air Force and missile's strike. Operation Summer Rains in
Gaza would continue on the same course as IDF tanks continue to pour into the
Palestine city. If
an all out war does occur on several fronts, the IDF is more than ready to destroy
the entire terrorist infrastructure of Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Electricity and
water supplies would be cut off, but only in areas where Islam terrorists are
operating from. Israel does differentiate between Palestinians and Arabs who desire
peace and those who are determined to "wipe Israel off the map." Several
analysts in Israel point out that Israel would not be acting alone against Iran,
Lebanon and Syria with US military action expected to be coordinated with the
IDF. Just days
ago Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashal held a press conference in Damascus broadcast
live on al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, and Syrian state television. The press conference
was significant, not only for its content, but because it was held in a Damascus
hotel: typically in the past, when Syria-based terrorist organizations took responsibility
for operations, they did so from Beirut. The high profile Mashal statement from
Damascus suggests that the Asad Syria regime has changed its rules of engagement
from tacit to explicit support for Hamas. ISRAEL
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