Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanese Hezbollah on Tuesday (August 4th) against any operation targeting Israel in the aftermath of a raid in Syria that the Jewish state says it carried out in response to " attempts " to place bombs at its border.
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" We hit a cell, and now we are hitting those responsible, " said Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to a group of four men whom the army said they killed on Sunday as they " tried " to plant bombs. Syrian border, then the reprisals carried out the next day in Syria.
Israel " will do what is necessary to ensure its defense ", he said during a military visit to the center of the country, " suggesting to Hezbollah in particular to take this into account ". Israel, which says it faces threats from neighboring Syria and Lebanon, has carried out several raids since the beginning in 2011 in Syria of a civil war with multiple ramifications, and where the regime is supported militarily by Iran and Hezbollah, pet peeves of the Hebrew state.
Hezbollah's “ second front ”
In recent months, strikes attributed to Israel have increased in Syria, without the Israeli army confirming or denying it, Israeli military officials, however, citing a " second front " of Hezbollah - very influential in Lebanon and ally of Tehran - in the Syrian Golan. And the Israeli army had also deployed in July new reinforcements along its northern border, at the crossroads of Lebanon and Syria, claiming to have " raised its level of preparation against various potential enemy actions ".
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Rarely, Israel claimed airstrikes against the Syrian army on Monday evening " in retaliation " for " attempts " to place homemade bombs along its border with Syria. " The Israeli armed forces hold the Syrian government responsible for all activities on Syrian soil and will continue to act with determination against all violations of Israeli sovereignty, " the Israeli army warned after the raids.
The day before, she said she had killed four " terrorists " who she said were planting explosives near a security fence along the part of the Syrian Golan occupied and annexed by Israel. Since the start of the war in Syria, the Israeli strikes carried out in this country target in particular Hezbollah and the Iranian forces which support Damascus against various rebellions.
