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Hezbollah has incessantly attacked Israel since October 8, launching over 8,500 rockets at Israel and forcing nearly 100,000 Israelis to flee their homes. But Israel seems to be finally pursuing game-changing tactics in its ongoing war against the terrorist organization. As Netanyahu stated, “I promised we’d change balance of power in north: that’s exactly what we are doing.”
Following a stunning coordinated attack on thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and Syria via rigged pagers and walkie-talkies, Israel has managed to kill most of Hezbollah’s senior members to the point that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is now “alone at the top.” An IDF attack just days ago eliminated most of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force that were planning to launch an October 7th-like invasion of Israel’s north. According to Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, and corroborated with a Lebanese source close to Hezbollah, these Hezbollah senior commanders were killed as they were planning this attack. The IDF has named 13 of these terrorists in a recent infographic, and Hezbollah senior operative Ali Karaki’s fate remains unknown after an IDF attempt to assassinate him as well. These IDF attacks on Hezbollah follow earlier assassinations of senior Hezbollah operatives that I reported on in two articles in August.
Additionally, in the past few days, Israel has been neutralizing Hezbollah’s long range rockets, which the terrorist group has amassed over the past 18 years.
Hezbollah, like Hamas, embeds itself in the civilian population. Israel claims that most of Monday’s 1,600 attacks on Hezbollah targets were targeting weapons stored in homes. According to an IDF spokesman, such weapons include “cruise missiles that can reach hundreds of kilometers, heavy rockets with a 1,000-kilogram warhead, medium-range rockets that reach a range of up to 200 kilometers, short-range rockets, and armed unmanned aerial vehicles.” Israel has released a picture of a long-range rocket with a hydraulic launcher in a civilian home, and another video showing a missile actually being fired from inside a house. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has also claimed that Lebanese civilians are renting out rooms in their houses to Hezbollah to use them to launch rockets. Nonetheless, Israel has been warning the Lebanese civilian population via text, phone calls and radio to flee the area. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also released a video issuing a similar warning.
Rather than welcoming Israel’s tactical wins against its arch-nemesis, as well as Israel’s desire to limit collateral damage, the Biden-Harris administration is brow-beating the Jewish state, with an unnamed State Department official stating that the Biden-Harris administration opposes an Israeli ground invasion, wants a diplomatic “off-ramp” to de-escalate the situation, and desires to end “…the cycle of strike-counterstrike.” Will the Biden-Harris administration allow Israel to defeat Hezbollah and restore its citizens to the north, or will it hamstring Israel from doing so?
