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Shalom from Ashkelon,

I am the coastal Israeli city just north of the Gaza Strip, staying at friend’s home and having a short working break near the sea, mainly doing research and an outline for my new novel. As I write it is nearly ten at night, and several Israeli Air Force jets are screeching low overhead. The military is on very high alert after today’s very serious clash on the northern border with Lebanon. IDF officials say that Lebanese army troops (official government forces, not Hizbullah militiamen who are spread out throughout the south of the country) fired on Israeli troops without provocation. The soldiers were clearing some trees on the Israeli side of the border in order to have a better view into nearby Lebanese territory when UN soldiers suddenly showed up along with Lebanese troops and frantically ordered them to stop the rather routine work. Soon afterwards the Lebanese army opened fire and the IDF replied in kind. An IDF reserve officer, a father of 4 children, was instantly killed, and another soldier, born in Ethiopia, was severely wounded. His life hangs in the balance tonight in a hospital in Haifa. Three Lebanese soldiers and a journalist who works for Hizbullah television were also killed in what was the most serious incident along the border since the 2006 war.

Interesting enough, the family name of the slain IDF reserve battalion commander, Lt Col Dov Harari, is almost identical to the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. A UN report is expected to be released very soon, blaming a Hizbullah assassin for murdering Hariri’s father in 2005 while he was also serving as prime minister. The report leaves the Iranian and Syrian backed militia with an urgent reason to start a conflict with Israel in order to divert attention away from its own crimes inside of Lebanon.

The latest tensions actually began last Friday with a rocket attack upon the city I am staying in. I heard the explosion at 8:20 in the morning as a Chinese-built Grad rocket fired from Gaza exploded about one mile away. Then we had a serious Kassam rocket attack the next evening upon a building in nearby S’derot, which left no casualties only because it was a Saturday evening when the public building is closed, and then five rockets were aimed at the southern port of Eilat from Egyptian territory yesterday, which ironically only wounded several people in nearby Jordan.

So all of this, and especially today’s clash, could be the prelude to a possible new regional war, as the Israeli media is reporting tonight, this time probably far more severe than the 2006 conflict with Hizbullah, since this time the Syrian and Lebanese armies may well be directly involved, and possibly Iran as well. Please keep us in prayer.

David Dolan

dolan@netvision.net.il
www.ddolan.com

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