Israeli troops are bolstering defences on their northern border amid fears a 5,000-strong Hezbollah death squad could try to copycat the Hamas atrocity.
The Radwan 125 unit has trained specifically to smash through Israel’s security walls, slaughter border guards and storm northern Israel to kill and kidnap hundreds. Astonishingly, Israeli intelligence experts believe the spectacular plan is to then ghost hostages back through Lebanon and all the way to their Iranian paymasters.
In a terrifying video released by Israeli think tank Alma Research and Education Centre Hezbollah’s Radwan unit is seen training in their hundreds in how to overrun Israel’s defences. It was revealed on the eve of US President Joe Biden ’s extraordinary wartime visit to Israel as a show of support to the country more than a week after Hamas murdered 1,400.
His Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been in Tel Aviv in a massive diplomacy bid to calm down the rhetoric whilst supporting Israel’s war against Hamas. In the new video an Israeli voice-over on the Alma video warns: “Hezbollah has 5,000 trained and experienced fighters to carry out genocide in northern Israel.
Members of the Radwan 125 unit (Alma)“Seen here is Hezbollah’s operational map describing how they plan to conquer and erase communities in northern Israel. The Radwan unit’s main mission is to infiltrate into Israel and take over Galilee. A mass infiltration by land air and sea.”
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It says Hezbollah organised a “mock drill” orchestrating a “massive ground attack on northern Israel - hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists took part in what they described as a military manoeuvre.” The video then shows Hezbollah fighters going through their paces, training attacks on a mocked up border and shooting “Star of David” targets.
And it says the attackers would launch an “even worse massacre” than the Hamas one on October 7. The blood-soaked massacre outside Gaza, after gunmen broke out of the Palestinian enclave and tore through Kibbutz and local communities has shocked the world.
Israeli intelligence experts believes the Radwan group have plans to launch an attack (Alma)But it is also threatening to explode into a wider regional conflict in the Middle East with Iran-backed Hezbollah threatening to attack if and when Israeli troops storm Gaza. It has left US-backed American facing an impossible choice - attack Gaza on the ground to rescue 200 hostages and risk a new front opening in the north, or look weak.
On Tuesday Iran’s foreign minister warned that “pre-emptive action is possible” if Israel moves closer to a ground offensive. Hossein Amirabdollahian’s threat followed a pattern of escalating rhetoric from Iran, which supports Hamas.
In back channel messages fed via the UN, sources revealed Iran has made many threats to become involved in the war in the event of a ground offensive on Gaza. That means Tehran is likely to give the go-ahead to Hezbollah proxies in Lebanon and even Syria, possibly other pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and even Yemen.
A map of an alleged planned attack (Alma)That could drag other countries in the region into the widening clash. Israel has made it a policy of looking tough in a region where it is surrounded by countries sworn to end it completely, whilst knowing this will cost many lives on both sides.
An Israeli security source said last night: “They were practising this exact manoeuvre back in May and they even made this video of themselves doing it. These are highly-trained soldiers, with battlefield experience in Syria and the world needs to wake up to the Iran threat- because that’s where it is coming from.
“The authorities in Israel did not believe Hamas was capable of launching an air, sea and land attack - do you expect these commandos, trained by Iran are less able?” The Radwan unit was trained by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Sabeerin commando unit and each soldier has several specialisms.
It is claimed that the fighters want to copy the Hamas militants with their attack (Alma)There are snipers, anti-tank weapons experts, motorcycle and all terrain vehicle teams, all trained to attack in formation and en masse to overall Israel’s defences. There are fresh fears for hundreds of thousands of stricken Palestinians trying to flee Israel’s air-strikes aimed at trying to wipe out Hamas from the Gaza Strip.
Fighter jets and artillery teams have bombed areas of southern Gaza where Israel told Palestinians to flee ahead of an expected invasion, killing dozens of people. In Gaza, people wounded in the air strikes were rushed to hospital after heavy attacks outside the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis, residents reported.
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Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official and former health minister, reported 27 people were killed in Rafah and 30 in Khan Younis. The death toll on both sides is rising with around 3,000 killed in Gaza and almost 10,000 wounded, whilst Israel has lost 1,400 of its citizens, 289 of them soldiers.
As many as 4,229 Israelis have been wounded, 26 of them seriously. A reporter saw around 50 bodies brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Family members came to claim the bodies, wrapped in white bedsheets, some soaked in blood. An air strike in Deir al Balah reduced a house to rubble, killing nine members of the family living there. Three members of another family that had evacuated from Gaza City were killed in a neighbouring home. The dead included one man and 11 women and children.
The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas hideouts. “When we see a target, when we see something moving that is Hamas, we’ll take care of it. We’ll handle it,” said Richard Hecht, an Israeli military spokesman. Israel has sealed off and bombed Hamas-ruled Gaza since the militant attack on southern Israel on October 7 killed over 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and left about 200 hostages held captive.
The strikes have not stopped Hamas militants from continuing to attack Israel with rockets launched from Gaza. Israel has massed troops at the border for an expected ground offensive, but Mr Hecht said on Tuesday that no concrete decisions have been made. “These plans are being developed. They will be decided by, and presented to, our political leadership,” he said.
The combination of air strikes, dwindling necessities caused by Israel’s blockade, and Israel’s mass evacuation order for the north of the Gaza Strip has thrown the tiny territory’s 2.3 million people into upheaval. More than one million Palestinians have fled their homes, and 60% are now in the approximately eight-mile area south of the evacuation zone, the UN said.
Aid workers warned that the territory was near complete collapse with ever-decreasing supplies of water and medicine and with power running out at hospitals. At the Rafah crossing, Gaza’s only connection to Egypt, truckloads of aid were waiting to go into the tiny, densely populated territory, and trapped civilians. Mediators were trying to reach a ceasefire to open the border, which shut down last week after Israeli air strikes. Mr Biden will also travel to Jordan to meet Arab leaders amid fears of a broader regional conflict as fighting intensified along Israel’s border with Lebanon.
Antony Blinken, who visited Israel for the second time in a week on Monday after a six-country tour through Arab nations, said in Tel Aviv that the US and Israel had agreed to develop a plan to enable humanitarian aid to reach civilians in Gaza. There were few details, but the plan would include “the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harm’s way”, he said.
In Gaza, hospitals are on the verge of losing electricity, threatening the lives of thousands of patients, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced from their homes searched for bread. With taps dry, many rationed the little clean water available and others resorted to drinking dirty or sewage-filled water, risking the spread of disease.
The Israeli military said it was trying to clear civilians for their safety ahead of a major campaign against Hamas in Gaza’s north. The Israeli military said on Monday at least 199 hostages were taken into Gaza, more than previously estimated. Hamas said it was holding 200 to 250 hostages.
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