Israel Fears Hezbollah Fighters Infiltrating Its Northern Borders  

The Jewish army in the northern part of Israel are on high alert because of what appaers to be Hezbollah fighters’ infiltration from southern Lebanon.

According to Israeli media reports the authorities there, have closed main streets in northern Israel, Friday morning, fearing an Hezboallah fighters were infiltrating a number of Israeli towns and settlements next to the border with Lebanon.

These reports have also confirmed that one person was killed and a number of others wounded as a result of an anti-tank missile being fired at the area as reported in Al Jazeera.

The station reported that according to the Israeli Channel 13 there was a suspicion of an infiltration operation in several towns in the Upper Galilee, where residents were asked to stay in their homes and take shelter in shelters.

It stated as well that the Israeli Channel 14 reported that checkpoints were set up in Safed and its surroundings amid fears of an infiltration operation into northern Israel.

The infiltration into norther Israel by Hezbollah fighters is trending on the social media where sirens for people to stay in their home and underground shelters have been ringing all day due as well to incoming rockets and missiles coming from across the border.

On Thursday for example sirens through out north Israel sounded 123 times in the Upper Galilee including in towns like Haifa, Haifa Bay, Acca, Kiryat Shmona, Maragaliot, Nahariya, Afula, Nazareth and Marj Bin Amer.

On Friday morning Israeli media reported that initial estimates indicated that more than 20 rockets were fired towards Haifa Bay, and confirmed that a building in the Kiryat Bialik industrial zone in Haifa Bay was directly hit as a result of the rockets.

As well, Israeli Channel 12 confirmed 30 rockets were fired in another batch targeting the Upper Galilee, and indicated that fires broke out due to those rockets.

Hezbollah announced that it had targeted gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the Zevulun area north of Haifa, and in the Yiftah barracks and its surroundings.

This is while Israeli Channel 14 reported that more than 10,000 rockets and shells have been fired towards Israel since the beginning of the war in the north.

Since 23 September, Israel targeted most areas of Lebanon through intensive airstrikes, and has also begun a ground incursion into the south where they are meeting stiff resistance from Hezbollah fighters.

However the Israeli raids have resulted in 1,351 Lebanese dead and 3,811 wounded, including a large number of women and children with more than 1.2 million displaced as highlighted by Al Jazeera.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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