The Armed Forces (IDF) have been on high alert for days amid growing nervousness among broad sectors of society.

Tension increased last night when the Lebanese Hizbullah movement launched some 50 rockets into the country amid its usual exchange of fire for the past six months, although they were intercepted or landed in unpopulated areas.

Television stations and online newspapers have been warning since yesterday that the Iranian attack is imminent, in retaliation for the Israeli incursion, although its scope is unknown.

That nation accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration of bombing its consulate in the Syrian capital on April 1, which caused the death of commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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