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War on Terror

IDF: War may be brewing on northern border


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
April 11, 2005

Senior IDF officials reported Monday that their intelligence indicates the Hizballah terrorist organization will at any moment initiate large-scale hostilities along Israel’s northern border.

"There is an expectation of escalation on the northern border," Arutz 7 quoted Brig.-Gen. Gadi Shamni, head of the IDF's General-Staff Operations Division, as saying.

Brig.-Gen.l Yossi Kuperwasser, head of IDF Intelligence Research Division, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee the same thing. His assessment was backed up by another senior General Staff operations officer.

Security sources along the northern border reported Hizballah had begun making changes in its deployment and reinforcing certain defensive positions.

According to Arutz 7, there has also been in increase in the number of soldiers reporting incidents of Hizballah reconnaissance in the area.

Hizballah’s Al Manar TV reported Monday evening that the group had successfully penetrated Israeli airspace with an unmanned drone, which flew over several Galilee towns.

Generals Shamni and Kuperwasser said the army had a good idea why Hizballah would seek to initiate hostilities at this time, but could not release any details.

Christian Lebanese expatriates living in the US indicated Hizballah may be working with Damascus to prevent a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon.

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