IDF officer: ‘Hezbollah will face a deadly blow’
Immense booms in the air. Rockets. Anti-tank missiles. And of course, gunfire.
This was the environment in the North on Tuesday, one of the most violent days of the current war on that border.
In between tours of Kiryat Shmona, the Ramot Naftali/ Metzudat Koach police fort area, and the Metula area (as close as reporters could get to the closed military zone), The Jerusalem Post heard it all, and felt the intense, rising tension in the air.
It seemed that more people in the area and across the
nation were starting to think: Maybe Hezbollah is not just testing the IDF’s readiness and doing public relations
stunts to look like it supports Hamas, but is readying itself for a larger and more deadly conflict.
This would be with its 150,000 rockets at ready, a number as much as 10 times that of Hamas, and with more disastrous precision missiles which the IDF is less able to intercept.
Despite those rising dark war clouds, IDF Combat Logistics Officer Maj. Ravid told the in an interview on Tuesday in the North that he and his team will make sure IDF forces are sufficiently prepared to present Hezbollah with deadly consequences if it tries to start a larger conflict.
“If Hezbollah crosses the line, it will receive a deadly blow from the IDF’s northern command” he said.
Ravid’s role in normal time is working with about 50 mandatory or career soldiers and officers to organize training for reservists and maintain a wide range of fighting and logistics supplies for them.
In this war, Ravid, 27, from Tel Aviv, is suddenly commanding thousands of reservists all at once.
On October 7, Ravid was at home in Tel Aviv, and only started to hear about Hamas’s 6:30 a.m. invasion at 8:00 a.m. when Col. Eitan Gilad called him.
“We understood that something unusual was happening in the South,” he said.