Israel is fighting on several fronts at the same time. To military conflicts, it is not only in Gaza but also in Lebanon and in Syria. The Situation could escalate to another war.
Behind the Israeli army’s eventful days. First of all, an Israeli drone crashed in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut. Then the military fired on a target in the village of ‘ Aqrabā near Damascus. The poor information is that you have drones to attack Iranian “Killer” on the Israeli state to prevent region.
In the night of Monday, Israel bombed a Post of the radical Islamic Hamas in the Gaza strip. The attack was the information of the Israeli army, according to a response to previous rocket fire from the Palestinian territory. Finally, Lebanese media reported that Israeli air attacks have fired on pro-Iranian Palestinian group.
On Sunday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah Israel in a televised speech had been threatened with retaliation for the drone attacks. A drone had exploded in the air, and had damaged a media center of the Hezbollah hard.
The war in Syria and the consequences
The recent clashes go back to the collapse of the Syrian state, says the political scientist John Becke, of the University for Jewish studies in Heidelberg. For a long time had been in Syria for Israel the most dangerous military opponent. “However, with the collapse of the Syrian state, the rule of law, we are now witnessing a kind of Lebanon, of Syria: the growing influence of Iran and the expansion of Iran associated of interventions and the Expansion of Shiite militias.”
Demonstration at the border fence between the Gaza strip and Israel, may-2019
In the past few years have engaged Hezbollah on the side of the Assad regime is strongly in the Syrian civil war. In the process, they have learned new forms of military training. This is done in the context of several proxy wars, in which Iran is involved, for example in the Yemen. Israel was not engaged in it, instead of Israel fought there close to Arab States, the Gulf monarchies.
Direct clashes between Israel and Iran was last seen on Syrian territory. On Thursday Iran had made an attack attempt, said an Israeli army spokesman: “We have multiple terrorist of the Al-Quds force and Shiite militias objectives met.” Currently the Israeli army is on heightened alert. “We will want to take action against any who attack Israeli targets,” the military spokesman.
Iranian Threats
The explanation is likely to be a reaction to pronouncements from Tehran. The Iranian government spokesman, Ali Rabiei had previously warned, the attacks of the “Zionist regime” on the Lebanese territory would not remain without response. The patience of the States in the Region is limited, and therefore, Iran will support any reaction from the Hezbollah.
In addition, Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds brigades, had threatened to Israel via Twitter indirectly, but massively. “These crazy operations are the absolutely last fight of the Zionist regime,” he wrote in the short message service.
Iran and Hamas
In the conflict between Israel and Iran, it is about Power and influence, says a Lebanese Journalist and political Analyst Iyad Abu Shakra. “Iran is trying to the limits of its regional influence to extend. Israel has been forced to stop these Attacks. Iran aspires to a hegemonic role, which goes beyond the dimension of the (from the point of view of Israel) Permissible,” says Abu Shakra in the DW-interview.
By Iran to the Gaza strip’s ruling Hamas obviously feels encouraged to taunt against Israel. For months, it comes to the border with Israel again and again to clashes. Since the beginning of this month, radical Palestinians had fired repeatedly rockets on Israeli territory. Part of armed groups had tried, the border fence of the Gaza strip to break through. Israel responded with air strikes in the coastal strip. In response to the recent attacks, Prime Minister Netanyahu, who acts as the Minister of defence had decreed a halving of the Oil deliveries.
A resolvable conflict?
Smaller military operations in the Gaza strip, focused mainly on a medial Echo, writes political scientist John Becke. “Whether it is the deliberate Lighting of fields by Hamas near the Gaza strip, or the attempted shooting down of a drone in the Golan heights: Such provocations pose for Israel is no danger.”
Ready to use: bombs of the Iranian military. presented on its website in the beginning of August 2019
Nevertheless, both the Israeli forces and the Hezbollah prepared for an intense escalation. In the context of Israel’s military could penetrate into Lebanon, while Hezbollah fired an Iranian medium-range missiles. Such a conflict would be the third Lebanon war. “But I think, we’re not there yet.”
So the current development is open. After all, there is between Israel and Lebanon as well as Iran have no territorial conflicts, says Becke. Also, the territorial conflicts between Israel and Syria on the Golan heights are, in principle, solvable. Difficult is the question of whether Israel wanted to come, contrary to Iran, however. “In the long term – really long term – there is actually no reason why Israel and Iran one day at a negotiating table could sit.”