An aircraft attacked a vehicle with Hezbollah operatives in it alongside other attacks in Lebanese territory/IDF spokesman
Despite the heavy rocket and missile launches in recent days on the settlements in the north, the command in the area presents the Hezbollah Secretary General with a dilemma: withdraw forces from within 10 km of the Israeli border - or take the risk that the IDF will reveal the location in real time and launch an attack and countermeasures? , there is the Israeli dilemma - how to establish an enforcement mechanism against Hezbollah if the parties reach a political settlement. Here are all the figures in the northern campaign and the difficult questions.
Will he attack and thwart?
South Lebanon after the IDF attacks/documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law
Data on IDF attacks in the campaign against Hezbollah/Walla! system, no
Attack data:
From the beginning of the limited campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon it appears from data obtained by Walla!
Because the IDF attacked over 3,500 targets and over 160 squads of Hezbollah terrorists. About 230 terrorists and commanders were eliminated, among them battalion commanders and the head of the South Lebanon sector of the Hezbollah air unit. In addition, twice as many terrorists were injured.
The IDF carried out A deep thinking process in order to keep Hezbollah's bombs, missiles, and artillery at a distance of at least 10 kilometers from the border through systematic operations.
So far, the IDF has attacked more than 120 observation posts of Hezbollah forces along the border.
About 50 weapons warehouses were destroyed in which missiles of all ranges, unmanned aerial vehicles that were transferred to southern Lebanon, weapons and charges that Hezbollah hid along the border were stored. The warehouses that were attacked They include explosives sites designed to damage IDF ground maneuvers or if the army forces pursue abductees from Israeli territory.
The IDF also attacked from the ground and from the air more than 50 Hezbollah military headquarters, manned by operatives. In addition, an airstrip, warehouses and weapons used by the organization's air unit, which is responsible for launching unmanned aircraft towards the territory of the State of Israel, were destroyed.
In the sensitive area in terms of Hizbullah attacked a storage site for advanced surface-to-air missiles.At the same time, since the beginning of the war, the Northern Command has attacked more than 50 Hizbullah infrastructure targets deployed in Syria by Iran and Hizbullah from the ground and the air.
facing a difficult dilemma.
Hezbollah supporters watch Nasrallah's speech/Reuters
The effect of the attacks within the Hezbollah organization
Security officials point to the tension in which the Shiite organization is.
"They lie to each other about the results of the attacks and the operations in the field, they behave as wanted in southern Lebanon for fear of targeted threats," says a senior official.
"The IDF's activity disrupted their original attack plan, including the daily activity against the IDF. The success in destroying about half of the command and control infrastructure is what increased the pressure and disrupted the activity of Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon."
Hezbollah members at the funeral of a senior Radwan force in southern Lebanon/Reuters
Hezbollah's dilemma
The security establishment estimates that the secretary general of the Shiite organization is under a complex dilemma: whether to leave the weapons systems and Raduan forces within a range of dozens of kilometers from the border or withdraw them.
According to a security source, Nasrallah withdrew some of Radwan's quality forces, including weapons systems to improve their survivability.
The Hezbollah leader accordingly sends the Palestinian terror squads, which in his view are "cheaper" to sacrifice against the IDF forces in the border area.
Activity of IDF forces on the northern border. February 12, 2024/IDF spokesperson
The Israeli challenge
Against the background of the option of a political process in which armed Hezbollah terrorists will withdraw from southern Lebanon and be replaced by 15,000 Lebanese army soldiers, sources in the security establishment estimate that the Israeli challenge will be to establish an extensive enforcement mechanism.
The purpose of that mechanism will be to thwart, prevent, and harm any intention of Hezbollah to return to the region as happened after the 2nd Lebanon War, and not be content with reporting to the UN as in the past. Security officials warn that if the Security Cabinet does not insist on a clear mechanism, the achievements The limited campaign in the north.
Brigadier General in resp. Oren Abman/Reuven Castro
The new frontier
These days, Brigadier General Oren Abman is planning the new concept along the Lebanese border. One of the goals is to upgrade the security components around the settlements, including the protection of the entire border area. Protection of the means of observation, etc. The command also discusses the IDF's methods of operation in routine and emergency situations and the preparation for a future attack in Lebanon.
A school for children evacuated from the north established in Tiberias/Eli Ashkenazi
The IDF is preparing for strikes in Lebanon
Sources in the security system claim that the Northern Command is operating under complex conditions, which include removing tens of thousands of citizens from their homes and making them evacuees for the time being.
On the eve of the decision by the political echelon whether to go with the proposed outline, the IDF increased its readiness for strikes on Lebanon if Hezbollah continues to deteriorate the region and escalate terrorist activities.
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