Israeli threats to repel Shebaa operation in South Lebanon

Israeli resigned prime minister Ehud Barak said that he is studying at the meantime plans to repel the recent Shebaa operation carried out by the Lebanese national resistance.

Meantime the Israeli radio stressed that Tel Aviv will not suspend its reply to this operation unless it gets a final guarantee to halt such operations and this guarantee to be conveyed by Washington from Beirut.

During the weekly session of the israeli cabinet on Sunday Barak added that he notified both Syria and the Hizbullah not to think that Israel will not react to the operation carried out by the Hizbullah in South Lebanon and resulted in killing of one Israeli soldier and wounding two.

For his part, Maj. gen. Shaoul Mofaz, who is the chief of the israeli army said during his visit to one of the wounded Israeli soldiers following the Shebaa operation that both Syria and Lebanon shoulder the responsibility for the activity of the Hizbullah on the northern border of Israel.

Mofaz, on the other hand, indicated that there is no reason that pushes the Israelis to feel concern as a result of the US raids against Baghdad, noting that Israel follows up the course of events and finds out that there is no need to take special measures on the ground of this raid which targeted the Iraqi air force means, as he claimed.

Member of the Israeli Knesset Ivigdore Liberman, who is a candidate to join the government of the Israeli prime minister elect Ariel Sharon said that he calls for carrying out military operation in Beirut in case violence continues on the Lebanese borders.

He continued that if calm will not prevail on the northern borders the same situation will be applied on Beirut where all its citizens ( the people of Beirut will go to shelters to hide. He said that his stances to this matter will win the majority inside the Israeli government.