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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">'Israel' does not want to provoke Radwan Force: Top Israeli officer</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Al Mayadeen English - November 19, 2023<br></div>
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Israeli occupation is being greatly warry of any escalation in the
north as it does not want to poke the bear that is the Radwan Force.</p><img src="cid:ii_lp5tazl40" alt="f3700f4b-bf05-4f89-abd3-4b83dd68d7b0.jpg" width="391" height="261"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>Fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance group carry
out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District,
southern Lebanon, May 21, 2023 (<em>AP</em>)
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<p>An all-out war with Hezbollah poses a major challenge to "Israel," Israeli reserve colonel Kobi Miron said Sunday.</p>
<p>The damage to the Israeli "home front", as he put it, would be
significant in case of a war, not to mention the severe material and
human casualties.</p>
<p>Miron, in an article published on Israeli<em> Channel 12</em>'s
website, stated that there is currently an "intense attrition war at a
high pace" on the northern front, with many incidents occurring every
day, including the firing of anti-tank missiles, rocket launches,
infiltration operations, and launching of <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-substantial-use-of-drones-marks-a-first--israeli-m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kamikaze drones</a> used by Hezbollah and Palestinian organizations.</p>
<p>"Hezbollah has made some significant accomplishments in terms of
psychological warfare, such as the evacuation of 70,000 settlers from
their homes on the northern borders and hundreds of thousands who are
still threatened by Hezbollah's missiles all the way to the Gulf of
Haifa," Miron underlined.</p>
<p>Politically, the Israeli occupation forces in the north were ordered
to respond through calculated and cautious attacks without causing a
massive deterioration in terms of the situation in a manner that would
allow it to escalate to an all-out war.</p>
<p><strong>Read next: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/danger-intensifying-in-the-north--israeli-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danger intensifying in the North: Israeli media</a></strong></p>
<p>"Israel is compelled to retreat and respond against Hezbollah, the
party that has the initiative and is continuously escalating," he said,
attributing Hezbollah's dominance to the Israeli forces being engaged in
a fight in the heart of Gaza. </p>
<p>Moreover, Miron underlined that the Israeli occupation forces are
being cautious because they fear accidentally inflicting damages upon
the Radwan Force, which is situated 3-4 kilometers into the Lebanese
territories from the border area.</p>
<p>"It is only appropriate for us to ask ourselves, as part of the
self-discovery process after October 7, how did we allow for Hezbollah
to turn into a dangerous monster through our policy of containment and
self-restraint for more than a decade?"</p>
<p>Israeli occupation Knesset Member and former Security Minister
Avigdor Lieberman said on Saturday that the Israeli occupation "has <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--lost-the-war-on-the-northern-front--mk-lieberman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost the war in the north</a>."</p>
<p>"Hezbollah will continue to use the northern front until it sees a change in the Gaza Strip,"<span> </span><em>Channel 13<span>'s </span></em>Arab affairs commentator Hizki Semantov said.</p>
<p>"There is no change in Gaza, and Yahya Sinwar has not been
eliminated, and Israel is not stepping up to the task of completely
eliminating Hamas," the Israeli journalist said.</p>
<p>"The danger of eliminating Hamas, solving it, and removing it from
the axis of Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria is not on the agenda,"
Semantov added.</p>
<p>He also warned that "what is happening on the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israel-discriminates-between-north-settlements-on-evacuation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">northern borders</a>
and in the towns along the confrontation line and the northern towns is
an intolerable situation; no one lives there, and no one wants to
return there. This is an achievement for Hezbollah."</p>
<p>Additionally, Israeli Likud Knesset member Tali Gottlieb said,
"Hezbollah is not deterred; it mocks us and attacks us whenever it deems
appropriate."</p>
<p>The failures of the Israeli occupation are not only on the military front, for it was revealed on Friday that the Israeli<span> </span><span>security establishment was considering the possibility of <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/-israel--mulling-demobilizing-reservists-over-economic-woes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reducing the number of reservist soldiers</a> and demobilizing some of them. </span></p>
<h2>Settlers abandoning their homes</h2>
<p>Israeli settlers are leaving their homes in the Gaza envelope and
northern occupied Palestine due to their fear of the Resistance on both
fronts, with a massive wave of displacement taking place in a way that
has destabilized the already unstable economy.</p>
<p>A difficult political discussion in "Israel" has been sparked by the
mounting financial cost of the war on Gaza, which will pose challenges
to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Finance Minister,<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-minister-smotrich-admits-with-pain-bowed-head:-we-fa">Bezalel Smotrich</a>.</p>
<p>The Israeli occupation has been overspending on everything from
weapons to paying the hundreds of thousands of reservists it called up.
In addition, declining household spending and tourism are contributing
to a decline in fiscal income.</p>
<p>A dispute about payments to ultra-orthodox schools and other causes
supported by right-wing members of Netanyahu's ruling coalition has
arisen as a result of the strain on other budgets like religious schools
in the occupation.</p>
<p>The Israeli entity has successfully raised approximately<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/israeli-debt-rose-by--8-billion-since-start-of-war-on-gaza">30 billion shekels</a><span> </span>($7.8 billion) in debt since the start of its aggression on Gaza, as reported by the Finance Ministry on Monday.</p>
<p>Out of the total amount, around 16 billion shekels were raised
through dollar-denominated debt in international markets, highlighting
the Israeli occupation's efforts to seek financial support on a global
scale.</p>
<p>In addition to this, the Finance Ministry conducted a weekly bond
auction in the local market, resulting in the acquisition of an
additional 3.7 billion shekels.</p>
<p>Due to the prolonged aggression on Gaza, "Israel's" economy is
predicted to contract by around 1% this year, and the country's debt to
GDP ratio is predicted to<span> </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/israeli-gdp-growth-expected-to-shrink-1---debt-to-gdp-ratio">surpass 65%</a>, central bank governor Amir Yaron stated on Thursday.</p></div></div></div>
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