Despite the disaster in Beirut, the Lebanese terrorist organization once again sought a target below the threshold of escalation • The IDF response sent a double message: Israel is not interested in escalation but will respond with increasing intensity to any harm done to it •

• Hezbollah is still seeking revenge. Nasrallah

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• The organization will look for another opportunity. Hezbollah soldiers

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• Last night's attack took place between two UN stands. UNIFIL's tour of Lebanon passes over Hezbollah flag

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A lot of caution was heard in the IDF yesterday. Although the feelings were positive after a second success in a row to thwart a Hezbollah attack, they also knew that nothing really ended, and the account on the northern border remained open.

The incident itself was a failure by Hezbollah. This time, too, the organization was looking for a target that would be below the threshold of escalation. Therefore, it chose a pattern of action that could control its results. Unlike an explosive device, a rocket or an anti-tank missile that could not hit several people, sniper fire could be targeted and ensure only one soldier was hit. Under the eye, the same revenge that Nasrallah has been seeking to carry out since his organization operative was killed in an air force attack at Damascus airport five weeks ago.

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Such sniper squads have been stationed along the border for several weeks, in search of a target. So far, the IDF managed to completely avoid supplying them to work. Even yesterday he acted under the threat of this strict, so it was decided the only force observations - sent to repair one of the devices that are located on the border near the Israeli settlement of Manara - operate in the dark.

Power follow recognition of the threat. It moves Secretly, but at one point one of the soldiers was required to expose part of his body to replace the broken equipment. The Hezbollah sniper, who was waiting in one of the front houses in Kfar Hula, spotted him and fired two bullets. Both missed. Professionally it is the most complicated shooting a sniper can have. , Which he sees only for a brief second), but for an organization that has been waiting for weeks for this moment it is a bad result and a resounding operational failure, no less.

Hezbollah will not give up deterrence, despite the severe blow it has suffered

"The IDF took time to understand that this was the end of the incident. In the first moments they thought it was a diversion to another operation in another sector, so the residents were instructed to enter protected areas, the border was closed, and dozens of light and smoke shells were fired into the air. L responded symbolically by attacking two observation posts of the Green Without Borders organization - a seemingly humanitarian organization, but as Israel has previously revealed - an organization that serves as a cover for Hezbollah intelligence gathering activities on the border with Israel.

This response tried to send a double message to Hezbollah. The first is that Israel is not interested in escalation, and therefore chose marginal and unimportant goals for the organization. And the second, that Israel is responding in Lebanese territory, for the first time since January 2015, and hence that it will also respond to any future damage to it - with increasing intensity, depending on the severity of the damage.