Series of airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon that neighboring countries blame on Israel risks escalating into a wider conflict, some analysts say.
include thousands of Shiite fighters in Syria who have shored up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Iran also backs Hezbollah, which currently dominates Lebanese politics. Israel shares a border with Lebanon to the north and with Syria to the northeast.
Journalists take pictures of the 11th-floor building that houses Hezbollah's media office in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah are at their highest since January 2015 when two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish U.N. peacekeeper were killed in fighting on the Lebanon-Israeli border, according to Assaf Orion, a senior research fellow at The Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
“Against political competitors blaming the prime minister for being ‘weak,’ the North and Iraq are where he can show power and resolve,” he said, referring to the alleged strikes in Iraq and Lebanon and the confirmed attack in Syria.
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