The IDF blocks part of the old northern road which passes at some segments very close to the border with Lebanon. Farmers owning land near the border were instructed not to work their land by the military, for fear that Hezbollah gunmen operating near the border might try to target them.
Meanwhile an Israeli security official is quoted by Channel 2 as saying Israel does not comment on unofficial sources, referring to reports coming from Reuters earlier that Israel did not intend to target the high-ranking Iranian general that was killed in Sunday’s airstrike in Syria.
The unnamed security official seems to seek to row back on comments – also made anonymously – that implied Israeli responsibility to the attack. The Reuters story was quoted widely in Israel this evening, amid persistent fears of a possible Hezbollah retaliation.
A Channel 2 analyst describes the apparent flip-flop as “an attempt at maintaining ambiguity” on who was responsible for the strike in which six Hezbollah members and six Iranian soldiers, including a top Revolutionary Guards officer, were killed.
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