Homes, churches, cars: Hezbollah no longer targeting just military

YnetNews.com reports: “Hezbollah is intensifying efforts to strike civilians in the Israeli security zone in the Galilee, no longer focusing solely on military targets. This raises concerns in the communities along the confrontation line, which have been facing increasingly frequent shooting incidents targeting civilians in recent weeks.

On Saturday, an anti-tank missile was fired at a civilian jeep near Kfar Szold and missed it by several feet. Last week, Hezbollah terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at an elderly Israeli man who went to pray at the Iqrit Church during Christmas, and throughout the past week, firing squads from Lebanon bombarded homes in Metula, Margaliot and also chicken coops in Moshav Dovev.

‘There are too many shooting incidents that are very hard to connect to military matters anymore,’ said Giora Zaltz, head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, clearly indicating that his communities have been the focus of Hezbollah fire in recent weeks.

He believes that ‘the military tries to portray the conflict here as solely between military forces and Hezbollah, but it’s obvious that the organization no longer selects their targets as they did initially. Anti-tank squads are lying in wait, ready to shoot at whatever they aim for. The shooting at chicken farmers collecting eggs in Margaliot and Dovev is a classic example of this.’

Since the outbreak of the war, northern roads visible from Lebanon have been closed to military traffic, and last week they were even shut to civilian traffic for two days…”

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