Israel-Hamas war: Hezbollah fires 100+ rockets at Israeli civilians | LiveNOW from FOX

Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for firing about a 100 rockets at Northern Israel as the fight between the two does continue the terrorist group says it targeted two Israeli army bases and that the rocket attacks came in response to recent Israeli attacks want to talk about all of this and the latest details here so let's bring in a friend of the show Abraham LaVine an intelligence Analyst at the alma Research Center in Northern Israel good morning thank you so much for taking the time to b

e here with us my pleasure all right so I feel as though we are covering an attack pretty much on a daily basis by Hezbollah out of Lebanon on Israel does it seem like the two are headed for an allout War so I think it's important to state that I don't think the numbers are uh are showing us the real escalation I think the numbers are pretty steady about 50 attacks every uh every week uh up to 200 250 attacks a month uh I think is the number that uh we're looking at in the past few months uh wit

h Peaks here and there and we'll try and uh and think of why that happened this morning uh obviously nothing started this morning uh and there's a reason for the 100 projectiles uh shot towards Israel uh last night IDF attacked uh three uh bases in Balck or Targets in Balck in the Bak Valley the Northeast part of Lebanon that borders with Syria and there's a reason for that that's not the first either every time uses drones against Israel the aial bases ofah are attacked by IDF and that's what w

e saw last night and that's uh this morning wasa's reaction and I think it's all uh in this uh proportionality game between between Israel andah trying to keep this uh conflict in the north under the rules of the game uh that we're both sides are currently playing and I do want to show this post here on X or Twitter depending what you call it it's from the Israel Defense Forces and says quote over a 100 Rockets fired toward Northern Israel this morning in response iaf fighter jets destroyed thre

e of the launchers used to fire 70 of those Rockets so again a developing situation we will make sure to cover the latest here on live now also do want to show you this live look over at Gaza this is a view from Israel here I want to talk more about this Abraham the annual threat assessment of the US intelligence Community states that the US believes quote Iranian leaders did not orchestrate nor had for knowledge of the Hamas attack against Israel does Israel believe that to be the truth it's an

interesting choice of words using believe on both sides the US believes Iran didn't know does Israel believe the same uh I think there's a few things that we could say for certain and the rest we'll leave with a question mark I think we all understand that Iran is supporting funding arming Hamas and has done so in uh in the past few years and they're doing the same with with with Shiite militias in Iraq and I think that's a fact that everyone agrees upon and should think about uh consequence an

d the price that Iran is not paying for all of that uh do Hamas and Iran have 100% full same ideology no certainly not Iran is Shiite wants to evolve the Shiite Revolution Hamas is Sunni looking for Palestinian interests uh mainly in Gaza but in Israel altogether if you look at the maps that we find in Gaza day in day out they show all of Israel in Palestinian hands and I think that's what we know so did did Iran train Hamas for this attack yes did the weapons come from uh Iran yes did Iran know

about the specific date or give the order not necessarily it's not a military hierarchy that they were getting commands 6:30 in the morning 7th of October you should attack and that's something that's debatable and I think we're we're still uh looking for answers in that sense I can also add that sin and Hamas definitely expected more support which they didn't get which is interesting why isn't taking a larger part why isn't Iran taking a larger part and they're all playing this cautious game a

round Hamas while only Hamas is paying the price of their attack and more on that here the US Director of National Intelligence saying that Terror groups Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are targeting Israelis inspired by the Hamas attack do Israelis need to be concerned about these terrorists aside from Hamas and and Hezbollah I think we're speaking here of a different level Hamas and heah or organizations uh military style Terror organizations funded trained armed uh and we should be looking at

them as such when we speak of alqaeda when we speak of Taliban of Isis or the leftovers of Isis wherever they are I think we're speaking more of uh Terror attacks inspired by the ideology and not part of the organization so I don't see an orchestrated effort by ISIS to attack Israelis but do terrorists uh that Define themselves as Isis supporters and identify as Isis do they are they still trying to attack us yes that's true in Israel and in other places around the world if you're an Israeli or

a Jew you should be concerned about that and be aware I know there was a lot of discussion just yesterday about hamas's number three the third in command there in Gaza possibly being killed in an air strike do we know at this point if he has been killed but also what would be the sign ific of that kill so to speak well it definitely sounds like we tried to kill him uh did I have succeed we still don't know and we'll hear about that uh together uh what's the significance I think uh on one hand th

ere'll be another leader instead but I think it's another step that Israel is taking each leader that we eliminate from the table I think is a step in bringing security secur uh back to Israel's borders eliminating the threat of invasion on Israel's borders and uh and continuing the effort to deter terrorists all around proxies all around Israel borders to try the same thing again the IDF has said that it was able to stop a possible terror attack they believed a Palestinian man was on his way to

essentially do a suicide bombing there they stopped him in his tracks is this something that is happening more often than any of us realize oh of course and that's true uh for me as much as it is about you uh unless you're there in charge of that area you're probably not aware of the number of attacks that's thwarted in Judea and Samaria all over the country uh stopping Terror attacks before they're completed and uh I think one of the things that we see in Judea and Samaria is that because IDF

is in the in the area in control of the area in some ways in terms of the security of uh of the Israeli civilians there then we have the ability to stop these attacks before they reach strategic areas in Israel Tel Aviv is defended in Judea and Samaria by IDF which is not the same when we speak ofal and or Hamas and Gaza that are free to arm and train and that's why we see the bigger threats coming from the outside as opposed to Hamas Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Judea and Samaria what is one th

ing about the war that you think people don't fully understand maybe they misconstrue it well the easiest thing that I can point out is that as opposed to what it seems like in the title of uh of all of these interviews is the uh Israel Hamas War 2023 this is not Israel Hamas War this is a chapter in Israel Iran and that's why here at Alma Center we chose to focus our next few reports a whole series of reports about The irgc because I think we should uh focus at least some of the time put aside

the concurrent you know the threats that we're seeing in front of us or Hamas andah but the head of the snake is Iran the irgc Els Force everything starts from there and I can even suggest a plan why don't we split our efforts of the Western World let Israel deal with Hamas andah and the rest of the world deal with Iran directly and I think if both sides do their job we can improve the world uh and bring it to a better place all right Abraham LaVine there in intelligence analyst over at Alma Res

earch Center in Israel as always thank you so much for joining us to break down the latest developments anything else you want to add about any of this before I let you go uh I hear uh many voices from uh from the States including uh commander of sencom uh saying himself that Iran is not paying a price for thetis actions in Yemen for Kamas action on October 7th forah actions since October attacking again and again including the 100 Rockets this morning and I think we should focus uh like I said

on the head of a snake and start thinking on how we're improving our deterrence against Iran against their proxies or else this will only continue uh again and again uh Israel is just the lowest hanging fruit and that's why we're the ones attacked but the West is the enemy in Iran's eyes inah's eyes in the eyes and Hamas eyes and we should all be sitting together around the table and thinking how to solve the situation all right Abraham thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us we

appreciate it my pleasure