During a meeting last Friday, Gordin said that he is aware of the disturbances and the locals' feelings and displayed the IDF's preparedness for various scenarios on the northern border.
Later he claimed that according to the IDF's situational assessments, there is no plausibility for a military confrontation, and the civilian routine in the area must continue.
"No one knows when it will happen, but war is a matter of time," a senior officer in the northern region told Israel Hayom last week. "We are at high tension. If, in the past, there were infiltrations by workers, today, there are provocations on the fence."
Last year, the IDF, with the help of locals, erected a fence around the town of Ghajar, which is split between Israel and Lebanon, to open the town to tourists. Some one million Israelis entered the town, allowing it to thrive economically, but now the Lebanese are claiming that those who are entering Lebanon are not residents of the town but rather Israelis.
The IDF, in general, and especially the Homefront Command, are trying to portray business as usual and explain that both sides have no interest in being drawn into a war. Everyone's goal is to hit below the belt without showing off achievements and to humiliate the enemy.