A message on the IDF Home Front Command website informed Israeli citizens that on September 20, there will be “a National Home Front Drill”. Sirens will sound throughout the country during a ten minute period from 11:05-11:15am.
Civilians can practice, the message continues, by “entering your closest protected space and making sure you’re ready.”
The brunt of any Hizbollah attack would fall on the North, and according to the Hamodia newspaper, up to 750,000 Israeli civilians could be forced to vacate their homes. Of those internal refugees, 95,000 could be absorbed by being placed in Kibbutzim or hotels, the paper said.
Meanwhile, Hizbollah spokesman Nabil Qaouk told AFP the group’s fighters had been warned “to be completely ready to confront Israeli manoeuvres on Sunday.”
"In the event of any new attack on Lebanon, the Israelis will not find anywhere in Palestine to hide”, he said.
