Day 296 All out war with Hezbollah?

Chaim starts by mentioning the Hezbollah rocket attack on the Israeli community of Majdal Shams, on the Golan Heights, which resulted in the deaths of 12 children (he says at least nine, but it was later confirmed that there were 12 fatalities).

Chaim says that this is the largest number of casualties from a single Hezbollah attack in nine months of war. Hezbollah is claiming that it wasn’t them, but they had fired a barrage of rockets into Israel at the time and the rocket that hit this soccer field is of a type that only Hezbollah has. Other weapons fired in the same barrage hit a nearby kibbutz, while others were intercepted.

Chaim says that Israel now has no choice but to hit Hezbollah hard in order to restore deterrence and punish them for this attack. He mentions that the US is offering to evacuate several thousand US citizens from Lebanon, and this is one of many indications that the war is about to sharply escalate in the very near future.