Hasan Nasrallah

After Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced that Special Tribunal for Lebanon would indict members of his group for the 2005 assassination of PM Rafik Hariri, it was understood that Hizbullah would create a distraction on the border — one that reminded the Arab world of Hizbullah's relative success against the Israeli war machine in the 2006 war, TIMES magazine said.
"The timing is not surprising," Giora Eiland, a retired Israeli major general, told TIMES.

Immediately after Tuesday's border clash between the Lebanese and Israeli armies, the two countries issued a statement holding each other responsible, but all eyes were on Hizbullah.

"Hizbullah is and will be the only effective military force in Lebanon and it is responsible for strategic decisions in Lebanon," Eiland said.
"Now, was this event only some kind of difference about the border or something more deliberate than that? Well, I would guess that it's more deliberate than that. And due to the fact that Hizbullah is the only significant military force north of border, I would not hesitate to think Hizbullah persuaded a Lebanese commander to do something," he added.
Another Israeli official who spoke with TIME pointed out that the number of Shiites officers in the army has increased.
Eiland feels that there is close cooperation between the Hizbullah and Lebanese army.
However TIME's was not clear whether the gunbattle Tuesday was an isolated incident or the just the beginning of a new war. Predicting a summer of new fighting between Israel and Lebanon has been a favorite pastime in the Middle East.