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Coronavirus pandemic or not, Israel can ill afford to let its guard down, not even for a single moment. On Friday, April 17th the fence separating Israel and Lebanon was penetrated in three separate places, and pictures were hung up of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nissrallah, and Qasem Soleimani, former leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, who had been killed in an American air strike, earlier this year. By Tuesday, April 21, Hezbollah made clear in its official website, Al-Akhbar, that they were responsible for this.
As Brigadier General Shimon Shapiro of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs wrote, “Hezbollah is gloating over Israeli mentions of the damage to ‘the most sophisticated border protection system in the world.’ Hezbollah believes that its ‘fence operation’ punctured what Israel views as the great achievements of eliminating the threat of the cross-border tunnels from Lebanon. Hezbollah wants to make clear that even though its ability to operate under the fence has been impaired, it is still operationally capable of crossing the fence above ground.”
This act was in retaliation for an air strike last week, carried out by the IDF on Syrian soil against a tank carrying three Hezbollah members, who immediately fled. According to a report in the New York Times this was an intentional warning shot intended to send a message about Hezbollah’s increasing presence in Syria, but not intending to kill.
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