Chadi Hileneh, "Akhbar al-Yawm" agency

The strike poses a major challenge to Hezbollah and puts it in a difficult situation

Yesterday, Israel crossed all the red lines, rules of engagement and controls in force on the south Lebanon front since the eighth of last October, after targeting on Tuesday evening a building in the southern suburb, the stronghold of Hezbollah, where Fouad Shokr, a “senior advisor” to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, was located.

This comes at a time when attention was directed to the American diplomacy, which set a trap for everyone, through maneuvering and deception to give the military leadership in Tel Aviv plenty of time to prepare for the strike carefully, which gave it the ability to determine the scene of the unconventional retaliatory strike. Amid this dangerous qualitative shift, there were many questions about Hezbollah's response to this strike, will it ignite a full-scale war, or will it strike Tel Aviv or Haifa?

A security source said, via the "Akhbar al-Yawm" agency, that if Shokr's elimination is proved, the Hezbollah will determine the size of the response, but the strike in the heart of the southern suburb poses a great challenge to it and puts it in a very difficult position, and he expects via "Akhbar al-Yawm" that the response will be immediate, taking into account all its repercussions and consequences, which poses here a question: Did Israel aim through the expected strike to drag Hezbollah to a full-scale war?

Reliable party sources tell "Akhbar al-Yawm" that if the Israeli operation succeeds in assassinating Fouad Shokr, the response from the party will be great, it may target an important military site in the city of Haifa, which is located 27 kilometers from the Lebanese border, and it is likely to bomb it with very accurate "Fateh" 110 rockets, and each rocket carries 500 kilograms of explosive materials, and it seems clear, according to the same sources, that this second strike on the suburb, after the assassination of Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri, this time will not go unanswered.