Since October 7, the so-called escalation ladder has involved very significant restraint from Hezbollah. All of the data on the military struggle show first that the Zionists have expended much greater firepower and confined themselves to a far wider geographical area, not to mention extensively targeting civilians. Hezbollah has by contrast focused almost exclusively on military targets and within a 5km distance of the border.

This is exactly why I have no doubt that the football field attack is an Israeli false flag - because throughout all of this, the roles and strategies have remained consistent - Israel engaging in clearly provocative attacks against civilians away from the border and Hezbollah responding with clear restraint, refusing to rise to the Israeli bait and instead focusing on military targets close to the border.

It’s entirely out of character and contrary to well-established practice for Hezbollah to suddenly target not just a civilian target, but one that might as well have been created specifically to generate international condemnation if targeted. But it’s entirely in keeping with Israeli strategy and practice to target it themselves, then blame Hezbollah.