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RESIDENTS OF NORTHERN ISRAEL BRACE FOR POSSIBLE ALL-OUT WAR WITH HEZBOLLAH

By Andrew Macaskill
April 30, 20241:40 PM GMT+2Updated 14 hours ago
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Item 1 of 5 An Israeli soldier looks on at a scene, after it was reported that
people were injured, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and
Israeli forces, near Arab al-Aramashe in northern Israel April 17, 2024.
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[1/5]An Israeli soldier looks on at a scene, after it was reported that people
were injured, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and
Israeli forces, near Arab al-Aramashe in northern Israel April 17, 2024.
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 * Fears Israel and Hezbollah moving closer to all-out war
 * Haifa mayor asks people to stockpile food and medicine
 * Some residents say only war can force back Hezbollah
 * Israeli army says it has increased readiness for war

HAIFA, Israel April 30 (Reuters) - Eli Harel was an Israeli soldier in his early
thirties when he was sent into Lebanon in 2006 to battle fighters from the
Iranian-backed group Hezbollah in a bloody, largely inconclusive month-long war.
Now 50, Harel is ready to rejoin the army to fight the same group if shelling
along Israel's northern border turns into a full-blown war with Iran's most
powerful regional proxy. This time Israeli forces would face some of the most
challenging fighting conditions imaginable, he said.
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"There are booby traps everywhere," he told Reuters. "People are popping up from
tunnels. You have to be constantly on alert otherwise you will be dead."
Harel lives in Haifa, Israel's third biggest city, well within range of
Hezbollah's weapons. Haifa's mayor recently urged residents to stockpile food
and medicine because of the growing risk of all-out war.
Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in escalating daily cross-border strikes
over the past six months - in parallel with the war in Gaza - and their
increasing range and sophistication has spurred fears of a wider regional
conflict.
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Hezbollah has amassed a formidable arsenal since 2006.
Like Hamas, the militant Palestinian group battling Israel in Gaza, Hezbollah
has a network of tunnels to move fighters and weapons around. Its fighters have
also been training for more than a decade with Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad's forces.
Hezbollah has so far restricted its attacks to a strip of northern Israel,
seeking to draw Israeli forces away from Gaza. Israel has said it is ready to
push Hezbollah back from the border, but it is unclear how.



EXILES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY

Some 60,000 residents have had to leave their homes, in the first mass
evacuation of northern Israel, and cannot safely return, prompting increased
calls within Israel for firmer military action against Hezbollah. Across the
border in Lebanon, some 90,000 people have also been displaced by Israeli
strikes.
Eyal Hulata, a former Israeli national security adviser, said Israel should
announce a date in the next few months when displaced Israeli civilians can
return, effectively challenging Hezbollah to scale back its shelling or face
all-out war.
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"Israelis cannot be in exile in their own country. This cannot happen. It is the
responsibility of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) to defend civilians. It is
what we failed to do on Oct. 7," he said, referring to the Hamas attack on
southern Israel that prompted the current war in Gaza
Hezbollah did not respond to a request for comment. The group's leader Sayyed
Hassan Nasrallah said in February that residents of northern Israel "will not
return" to their homes.

The Israeli military said this month it had completed another step in preparing
for possible war with Hezbollah that centred on logistics, including
preparations for a "broad mobilisation" of reservists.
A conflict between Israel and Hezbollah would probably result in massive
destruction in both countries. In the 2006 war, 1,200 people in Lebanon were
killed and 158 in Israel.
Since October, more than 300 people have died in fighting in the border area,
mainly Hezbollah fighters.
If war did break out, Israel would probably bomb targets in southern Lebanon
before soldiers tried to push at least 10 kilometres across the border.
Hezbollah would likely use its estimated arsenal of over 150,000 rockets to
target Israeli cities. In 2006 the group fired about 4,000 missiles at Israel.


'IMMENSE' DAMAGE LIKELY

Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli brigadier general, told Reuters there was a
growing likelihood of war erupting between Israel and Hezbollah, caused either
by an unplanned escalation in clashes or by Israel losing patience with people
being unable to return home.
Orion said the intensity of bombing in any war could be 10 times greater than in
Gaza.
"The damage will be immense," he said. "Gaza will look like a walk in the park
compared to that level of fighting."
Haifa, a port city built on the slope of a mountain from where it is possible to
see the Lebanon border on a clear day, was targeted in 2006. Eight people were
killed in the worst attack.
Nasrallah said in 2016 Hezbollah could hit ammonia storage tanks in Haifa,
saying the result would be "like a nuclear bomb".
The mood in Haifa is a mixture of anxiety and fatalism.
Hundreds of evacuated Israelis have moved to the city and many said another war
may be the only way to return home.
Assaf Hessed, 35, who lived in a kibbutz two kilometres from the border, said
the military has until September to force Hezbollah back or residents will move
elsewhere.
"We have to make a decision soon about where we live, we cannot go on like this
much longer," he said.

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