Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called an urgent security meeting with officials to assess the situation in northern Israel following Tel Aviv’s escalation in southern Lebanon, according to a report.
Channel 13 reported that Netanyahu scheduled the emergency security assessment with Defence Minister Israel Katz, army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and army chiefs in the north.
It said that “the Israeli army was surprised by the scale of the rocket fire and Hezbollah’s decision to change its fire policy in response to the expansion of the Israeli army’s ground operations in southern Lebanon.”
The report explained that “dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon toward the north on Saturday, and for the first time since the ceasefire began on April 17, these rockets reached the cities of Safed and Nahariya” in northern Israel.
It noted that there is “utter chaos and an uncontrollable situation in the north,” adding, “The government is not concerned about this.”
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