ISRAEL'S ARMY READY FOR INSTANT RESPONSE TO HIZBALLAH ATTACK AS WAR LOOKS LIKELY TO HAPPEN SOON
MARCH 24 2008
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak decided to place the armed forces on guard in view of indications that Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah may seriously intend making good on his threat of “open war” against Israel, whom he accuses of the Feb. 12 killing of Imad Mughniyeh.
The Israeli Air Force, according to our sources, has prepared two command and control airplanes which are capable of carrying command centers and special forces from place to place and reacting to terrorist attacks in places far from Israel. Magen David Adom nationwide has doubled its usual complement of ambulances and crews on standby.
According to our military sources, Barak latest directives Monday, March 24, mean he has changed his mind about the prospect of a Hizballah revenge attack. The earlier presumption that the Lebanese terrorists would hold their fire up until the Arab League summit convening in Damascus on March 29-30 has been abandoned to meet fast-moving events across Israel’s northern border.
1. Syria last week pushed the fighting strength of Palestinian terrorist groups under its shared control with Iran – an estimated 3,000-strong – across the border into the Lebanese Beqaa Valley.
It was initially supposed that these groups had been removed from their Damascus bases to get them out of the way of the Arab summit. But they have since been observed taking up battle positions and delivery of large quantities of the latest weapons and ammunition.
2. Syria has also speeded up its arms shipments to Hizballah - notably, as DEBKAfile revealed two days ago, anti-aircraft weapons.
3. For back-up, Syria has massed armored divisions along its Lebanese border.
Israel’s military chiefs now read these moves as meaning that Hizballah, the new Palestinian deployment and the Syrian back-up forces are set for a military strike against targets in Israel and ready for Israeli retaliation.
Israel’s defense chiefs do not count out Hizballah launching a number of coordinated terrorist operations over several hours or even days, synchronized with cross-border attacks on targets inside Israel.
The terrorist strikes may well be large-scale, multiple-casualty attack on an overseas Israeli or Jewish target.
The head of the terror center in the prime minister’s office referred incautiously last week to Hizballah’s hopes of Israel having to fly home “40 or 50 coffins,” a goal which Israel is determined to prevent hence the Air Force’s command and control planes on the ready for rapid take-off to the scene of an attack.
They are fitted out and manned for a wide range of contingencies, including rescue operations on foreign soil, requiring the local government’s approval.
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