Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on the 30th (local time). 2024.09.30. Lebanon = AP/Newsis Israel has entered a ‘limited and localized’ ground war against the pro-Iranian armed group Hezbollah in Lebanon. If Israeli ground forces enter in earnest and the battle begins, it will be 18 years since the ’34-day war’ with Hezbollah in 2006.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced through its official Telegram policy on the 1st (local time), “We have begun limited and localized raids on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.”
This operation was approved according to the decision of the political circles. According to the New York Times (NYT), Israeli officials approved the launch of a ground operation against Hezbollah’s infrastructure facilities in the southern border region of Lebanon the night before.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are training in preparation for ground warfare in the Lebanon border area on September 6. Provided by IDF Previously, at around 8:40 p.m. the previous day, the IDF Northern Command declared its Lebanese border villages, including Metulla, Misgabeam, and Kfargiladi, as military restricted areas and blockaded them. The Israeli army began a ground war, pouring intense artillery fire toward southern Lebanon.
“They (Israel) have informed us that what they are conducting is a limited operation focused on Hezbollah infrastructure near the border,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a briefing.
In his first public speech on Hezbollah’s ‘Al Manar TV’ on the 30th of last month (local time), Deputy Secretary General Naeem Kassem, who took over as ‘second in command’ after Hezbollah’s supreme leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike, said, “Israel is engaged in a ground war. “If they do it, we are ready to fight,” he said.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are training in preparation for ground warfare in the Lebanon border area on September 6. Provided by IDF The Israeli military declared ‘Operation Northern Arrows’ on the 23rd and 24th of this month and conducted approximately 650 airstrikes throughout Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. On the 27th, the level of military pressure is increasing, including an airstrike on the capital Beirut and the assassination of Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah.
If Israel deploys ground troops and a full-scale battle begins, it will be 18 years since the 2006 war. The BBC analyzed that the Israeli military is ‘much more capable and better equipped’ than in 2006. He also assessed that “Israel is facing an enemy where most of its leadership has been assassinated, communications have been disrupted, and many weapons and ammunition have been destroyed in airstrikes.”
“But thousands of Hezbollah fighters remain, and they are burning for revenge, and they are telling the world that they welcome the opportunity to fight Israel in their homeland,” he said, adding that Israel will not be able to easily suppress Hezbollah. The BBC said, “They (Hezbollah) are likely to have powerful and sophisticated weapons, such as Russian anti-tank missiles that can take on Israeli Merkava IV tanks.”
Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official, told the BBC: “Unlike in 2006, an Israeli ground invasion would be faced with Hezbollah fighters who are hardened and trained by combat experience while supporting Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the Syrian civil war.” He said. He said Hezbollah “will enjoy some home field advantage.”
Conversely, Melamed pointed out that Hezbollah benefited from Russian air cover during the Syrian civil war, adding, “This Israeli air superiority will be something new for them.”
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