The security cabinet is meeting tonight in the IDF’s underground command room at the military headquarters, also known as “the pit,” Hebrew media reports.
This is the first time such a meeting has been held there since the night of April 13-14, when Iran launched a missile and drone attack at Israel.
Channel 12 clarifies that the meeting is not taking place in the pit due to security concerns, rather in order to drill for a potential emergency situation.
The IDF is preparing for the possibility that it will receive an order from the security cabinet to carry out a preemptive strike against Hezbollah, Channel 12 reports, without citing any sources.
Channel 13 says that the latest Israeli assessment is that Hezbollah will try and target a senior Israeli official in its response to Israel’s killing of senior commander Fuad Shukr.
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