Atmosphere of War in Cabinet Meeting

The cabinet met in emergency session Wednesday night to approve military actions in the North, amid growing sentiment that the region was sliding toward war ...

Following the meeting, the cabinet issued a statement saying, "A new, complicated situation has been created that Israel is obliged to deal with." The statement said this new situation would include special preparations to deal with the possibility that "the enemy will try to cause damage to the home front."

Head of the Home Front Command, Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Gershon, was instructed to prepare for a possibility of a major bombardment of Israeli communities.

According to estimates, Hizbullah has thousands of rockets aimed at Israel, including 'hundreds' of Fajar 5 rockets that can reach Haifa and Hadera.