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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Amnesty Condemns Netanyahu’s Visit to Hungry

Responding to reports that Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has invited and plans to host Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Hungary on Wednesday, Erika Guevara-Rosas the head of Global Research, Advocacy and Policy of Amnesty International said:

“Prime Minister Netanyahu is an alleged war criminal, who is accused of using starvation as a method of warfare, intentionally attacking civilians and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.  As a member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Hungary must arrest him if he travels to the country and hand him over to the Court. Any trip he takes to an ICC member state that does not end in his arrest would embolden Israel to commit further crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

“Netanyahu’s reported visit should be seen as a cynical effort to undermine the ICC and its work, and is an insult to the victims of these crimes who are looking to the Court for justice. Hungary’s invitation shows contempt for international law and confirms that alleged war criminals wanted by the ICC are welcome on the streets of a European Union member state.

“Netanyahu’s visit to Hungary must not become a bellwether for the future of human rights in Europe. European and global leaders must end their shameful silence and inaction, and call on Hungary to arrest Netanyahu during a visit which would make a mockery of the suffering of Palestinian victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its war crimes in other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and its entrenched system of apartheid against all Palestinians whose rights it controls.

“Amnesty International calls on the ICC Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute all Israel’s crimes. Hungary should equally do so by applying universal jurisdiction principles. Powerful leaders, like Netanyahu, accused by the ICC of war crimes and crimes against humanity, must no longer enjoy the prospect of perpetual impunity.”

“The ICC was established to ensure accountability for victims of genocide and other crimes under international law, and so that crimes which shock the human conscience would “never again” be accompanied by impunity. In ‘bringing power to justice’, the ICC is now facing a global backlash from powerful leaders seeking to undermine the international rule of law and stamp out the prospect of accountability for the most powerful.”

Background

In November 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as al-Qassam brigades commander Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Since then, leaders from ICC member states France, Germany, Italy, Hungary and Poland have stated or implied that they would not arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he travelled to their respective countries. The United States has also enacted sanctions against the ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan.

A cornerstone principle of the ICC’s founding Rome Statute is that all individuals subject to ICC arrest warrants must be arrested and surrendered to the Court without recourse to immunity when they are within the jurisdiction of ICC member states, including on their territory.

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