Rather than directly attacking Iran in retaliation for the weekend's barrage of missiles and drones, Israel could go after Lebanese Hezbollah, supported and armed by the Islamic Republic. This scenario is increasingly being cited as plausible by Israeli military commentators following a suicide drone strike which injured 18 people on Wednesday, including 14 soldiers in the border town of Arab al-Aramche, inhabited by Bedouins. Israelis.
Shortly after, the Israeli Air Force launched a raid in the Baalbek region, in northern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold about a hundred kilometers from the border. A Hezbollah air defense base and command post were targeted. Until then, these daily clashes have remained within the limits of the rules of the game in force since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, triggered on October 7 by massacres committed by Hamas in southern Israel.
Hezbollah, in solidarity with the…