Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
The Hezbollah terrorist organization based in Lebanon may be planning to launch a retaliatory attack against Israel before the Iranian government does, reported CNN. Hezbollah is funded and armed by Iran, which uses the group as a proxy for attacks against Israel. CNN cited two sources as saying Hezbollah might act on its own, regardless of whatever Iran chooses to do.
A Hezbollah attack could come by the weekend.
CNN said that one of its sources described Hezbollah as “moving faster than Iran in its planning and is looking to strike Israel in the coming days.”
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US military officials said that Iran has not yet completed its preparations for a planned attack on Israel.
Last week two senior terrorist leaders were killed in less than 24 hours. The first was Fuad Shukar – also known as ” al-Hajj Mohsin ” – Hezbollah’s most senior military commander who was killed in Beirut in an air strike by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The second terror leader killed was Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas; terror organization’s political leader. Haniyeh, who lived in hiding in Qatar, was killed in the Tehran guest complex where he was staying as he visited Iran for the swearing-in ceremony for the country’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian.
Haniyeh was killed when a small bomb planted in his room detonated, said Iranian officials, who claimed the bomb was placed there weeks before Haniyeh’s stay.
Fuad Shukar was responsible for the rocket attack on Saturday on the Israeli-Druze town Majdal Shams in which ten children and two teens were killed.
At this time, Israeli authorities have only taken credit for the killing of Fuad Shukar, but have said nothing about the death of Ismail Haniyeh.
Hezbollah wants revenge for the death of Fuad Shukar and a number of other of the terrorist organization’s leaders who have been killed in recent weeks in Israeli military strikes on its bases in Lebanon.
Iran wants revenge for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh because the Hamas terrorist organization is another one of the country’s proxies. It is also incensed that he was killed in their country, in their capital no less.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Anti-terror General Security Service – known in Israel by its Hebrew acronym “Shin Bet” – is preparing a bunker in Jerusalem for the country’s top leadership in case of an expected Iranian attack. Israeli news website “Walla” reported that the Shin Bet prepared the bunker for the Israeli leadership to use for long periods of time if needed.
