BEIT-UL-MOQADDAS, Jan 4 (Xinhua) – The Zionist army is on high alert along the northern border with Lebanon out of concern that Lebanon's resistance group Hezbollah will attack Israel, local daily The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.
Hezbollah will possibly fire rockets -- or use Palestinian proxies to do so -- in response to the Israel's escalation of its Cast Lead operation in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, said the report.
This would open a second front for Zionist troops as it is operating against Hamas in the south, it noted.
Another element that has Israel concerned is that the first anniversary of the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh -- the Hezbollah military commander who was martyred in a Damascus car bombing in February last year -- is approaching and that the group is seeking revenge, said The Jerusalem Post.
The fear is that Hezbollah will take advantage of Israel's preoccupation in Gaza to carry out a retaliatory attack, it said.
On Saturday evening, following the launch of the ground incursion in Gaza, Zionist War Minister Ehud Barak addressed the possibility of an escalation in violence in northern Israel, along the border with Lebanon.
"We hope that the northern front will remain calm, but we are prepared for any possibility," he in a special televised press conference.
In July 2006, the Second Lebanon War broke out between Israeli regime and Hezbollah, sparked by Hezbollah's kidnapping of two Zionist soldiers.
Following 34-day fierce fighting that left 1,000 Lebanese and 130 Zionists killed, a UN-brokered ceasefire came into effect between Israel and Lebanon on Aug 14, 2006.
A Kashmiri Muslim protester carries a picture of Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on his shoulders during a protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza, in Srinagar.
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