It’s been just over a day since Hezbollah fired an Iranian made Falaq-1 missile into a soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Northern Golan, killing 12 children. Israel’s security cabinet has voted to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the power to decide when and how to respond to Hezbollah’s massacre.
The attack came as a shock with the Prime Minister still in the USA - forcing him to fly back early. Most people believe that this attack crossed enough red lines to push the region over into total war.
“For the deaths of little children, [Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah should pay with his head,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich tweeted,” asserting that it was “time for action” and that “Lebanon as a whole has to pay the price.”
Did Hezbollah intentionally push Israel’s button to see if it will declare war? If, when, and how Israel will respond remains to be seen. In the meantime, reports are quickly circulating about other countries taking every precaution by evacuating their people from Lebanon and the surrounding areas, and Israel’s hospitals are under a state of intense war readiness, possibly never seen before.