Like every year since the end of the July 2006 war, Israel
escalates incitement against Lebanon and Syria during the month of July.
In its last report, Israel claimed that Hezbollah possesses sophisticated
missiles, two times more than it had during the 2006 war. The report added that
with these missiles, Hezbollah can impose a maritime blockade and disrupt the
balance in the region.
As for Syria, Israel did not rule out the possibility that
Hezbollah might take control of sophisticated Russian missiles owned by Syria
in order to use them in the upcoming war against Israel. In this regard, Israelis
stressed that they are intensifying their intelligence activities against Syria
and controlling what they called “missiles smuggling to Lebanon”.
The Israeli army refused to comment on the detonation of the spying
devices tapped into Hezbollah’s communications networks and promoted its
maritime training on a scenario in which Hezbollah imposes a naval blockade on
Israel. Through senior officers, the army launched warnings, legitimizing the
Air Force Intelligence’s oversight activities over Lebanon, including the
warplanes overflying Lebanon in order to contain what Israel is calling “Hezbollah’s
preparations and equipment of southern towns with missile arsenal”.
Israeli PM
Benjamin Netanyahu joined this campaign by linking Hezbollah’s activities to
the situation in Syria that “has become a greater threat to Israel given the possibility
of smuggling advanced weapons to Hezbollah, the global Jihad movement and
al-Qaeda, to be used against Israel”. On the border with Syria, Netanyahu
disclosed many attempts to infiltrate into Israel, increasing fears over cross-border
incursions.