Hezbollah on Monday moved to evacuate its headquarters in Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh area ahead of its expected attack on Israel, Lebanon’s Al Joumhouria daily reported.
According to the newspaper, the Iran-backed terrorist organization relocated all of its operatives—including “political” officials—as well as computers and other infrastructure, to an undisclosed alternative site.
The report came as Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said that a major Hezbollah attack against the Jewish state is only a matter of time.
“The response that Israel has been waiting for days with tense nerves is inevitable,” said Berri, an ally of the Iranian proxy. A “response or revenge is a dish that is eaten cold,” the head of Lebanon’s Amal movement, which is aligned with Hezbollah, added.
Hezbollah has vowed revenge for Israel’s targeted killing of senior commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut on July 30. That Israeli Air Force strike was in retaliation to a Hezbollah rocket attack on July 27 that hit a soccer field in the Golan Druze town of Majdal Shams, killing 12 children.
The Iranian regime has also pledged to retaliate against Israel for the July 31 assassination of Hamas terrorist chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, a killing for which Jerusalem has not taken responsibility.
A revised Israeli intelligence assessment suggests that Iran is slated to attack Israel within days in a joint assault with Hezbollah.
The report, which cited two sources with knowledge of the issue, said that Israeli intelligence indicates that the Tehran-led attack could be launched before the Gaza ceasefire talks scheduled for Thursday.
The attacks are anticipated to be larger and more complicated than Tehran’s April strike on the Jewish state and include missiles and drones fired at targets in Israel’s densely populated central region.
Israel’s political and defense establishments are considering the possibility of “preventive actions or attacks” they could carry out to thwart Iran, “in Lebanon or perhaps in other places where necessary.”
Asked by reporters on Aug. 4 why the military was not launching a pre-emptive strike, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said: “We have wide-ranging plans, we have a high readiness to act. Any order we get from the political echelon, we will carry out immediately.”
