“This way or that, through diplomatic efforts or a military operation, we will have to take care of it,” said Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, a former Knesset speaker who now chairs the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. “It can’t drag on forever.”
Edelstein invited 23 European ambassadors, consuls, and attachés to tour emptied-out areas along Israel’s northern border, as well as the IDF Northern Command headquarters in Safed.
The veteran parliamentarian made his remarks only an hour after a man in his 30s was critically wounded by an explosive-laden drone near Kibbutz Kabri in the Western Galilee.
Earlier in the day, several suspected drones were shot down by air defenses over the Upper Galilee, as sirens rang out across northern Israel throughout the morning warning of incoming fire from Lebanon.
Hezbollah has traded fire with Israeli forces on a near-daily basis since October 8, stoking fears of a full-blown conflict in the north as well. The Iran-backed terror group has said it is attacking Israel to support Gaza amid the war, which began with the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught in southern Israel. READ MORE
