Israeli leaders announced a historic wartime government Wednesday and ramped up a massive counterattack against the Gaza-based terror group Hamas, while fears grew that Jerusalem could soon face the 'one-two punch' of a second battlefront amid clashes with the militant outfit Hezbollah along its northern border.
A Hamas militant in a body bag is seen in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from Neraby Gaza Strip Saturday when they killed and captured many Israelis.
Hamas, which is believed to hold 150 Israeli and foreign hostages from the raid, continued to fire missiles from Gaza at Israeli targets, hitting the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon again on Wednesday. The death toll on both sides just since Saturday now tops 2,300 and is expected only to rise in the coming days.
But Yair Lapid, head of the largest opposition party in the Knesset, did not appear as a member of the new unity Cabinet, even though he had been invited to join by Mr. Netanyahu. “I appeal to all parties — and those who have an influence over those parties — to avoid any further escalation,” Mr. Guterres said.As it gears up for a potential full-scale ground invasion of Gaza, Israel may be facing the stirrings of a second front to the north, as the Iran-backed Lebanese Shiite militant movement Hezbollah — widely considered much more militarily capable and better trained than Hamas — launches its own attacks across the Israel-Lebanon border.
A Hezbollah entrance would represent a “one-two punch” for Israel, said Michael Doran, senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute.
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