Israeli-Hezbollah conflict

Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, delivers a chilling warning about Hezbollah's true military capabilities.

In this video, Ritter explains how Hezbollah's Operation Arbaeen, the initial retaliation against the Israeli occupation, is a limited attack and is just the tip of the iceberg, revealing only a fraction of its full potential.

Despite "Israel" and the United States being fully mobilized and prepared for a Hezbollah retaliation, the latter's least sophisticated tactics were enough to penetrate Israeli defenses, according to Ritter.

Ritter discusses the implications of this for both "Israel" and the US.

Let's find out why this development is bad news for "Israel" and the US, and how Hezbollah's undisclosed capabilities could shape the next phase.


https://t.me/ResistanceTrench2/9685

Hezbollah: Israeli nightmare of its own creation. Part 2 Part 1 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31712)

Hezbollah’s ability to wage successful asymmetric warfare against an entity as militarily powerful as Israel is assured by three factors: its weapons, its tunnels and its discipline:

The militia is estimated to have accumulated over a million missiles and rockets, from Kornet and Almas anti-tank missiles to modified Katyushas, Zelzal-2 and Fateh-110 missiles (the latter capable of reaching any point inside Israel). The Israeli military has some of the most sophisticated air and missile defense systems in the world, meaning the key to Hezbollah’s missile threat is saturation – sending more projectiles Israel’s way than can be defended against simultaneously. Hezbollah has also shown the growing prowess of its surveillance and strike drones, with its Hudhud (lit. ‘Hoopoe’) UAV recently penetrating Israeli airspace unmolested and snapping top-secret military targets in northern Israel. The militia’s armed strength is rounded out by its C-802 anti-ship missiles and reportedly, Sayyad-2 SAMs, complicating the operation of Israeli warships, aircraft and drones in the vicinity of the Lebanese border.

Hamas’ vast tunnel network (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/8015) has proved a major headache for Israeli forces in Gaza, with the IDF likening it to an “spider’s web” into which fighters disappear underground and reappear suddenly in the rear areas of maneuvering Israeli forces. But some Israeli intelligence analysts, including former intel officer Tal Beeri, say Hezbollah’s tunnel network is “far more sophisticated,” consisting of a literal “land of the tunnels” consisting of hundreds of kilometers under the whole of south Lebanon. Combined with southern Lebanon’s hilly, greenery rich environment, any ground incursion into the region threatens to become a nightmare for attackers.

Hezbollah’s troops are characterized by allies and adversaries alike as “well-trained and disciplined,” with their training, experience and weaponry described as superior to that of the Lebanese Armed Forces. This, combined with the culture of martyrdom for soldiers of the Shia faith, has allowed Hezbollah to demonstrate a level of tactical prowess superior to virtually all Arab armies clashing with Israel during the 20th century. For example, during the month-long clash with the IDF in July-August 2006, 1,000-2,500 Hezbollah fighters armed with automatic rifles, anti-tank missiles and rocket artillery faced off against between 10,000-30,000 Israeli troops equipped with 100 tanks, 80 APCs, 40 guns and military aviation. After the dust settled, Israel’s sophisticated, high-tech forces lost over 120 troops killed, 1,240+ wounded, 20 tanks destroyed, four helicopters lost and one naval corvette damaged. Hezbollah, for its part, lost 250 fighters, with most of Lebanon’s casualties coming from the nearly 1,200 civilians killed and 4,400+ wounded in Israeli strikes on infrastructure in Beirut and other cities.

Part 1 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31712)

Hezbollah: Israeli nightmare of its own creation. Part 1 Part 2 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31713)

Months of escalating tensions between Hezbollah (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31639) and Israel reached a tipping point over the weekend, with the two stepping back from a full-scale war (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31662) after large-scale back-to-back strikes. Israeli officials have been warning for months about a “very intense operation” against the Lebanese militia, but observers warn that any large-scale confrontation could leave Israel more than a bloody nose. Here’s why:

Forged in 1982 out of smaller resistance groups that emerged spontaneously in the aftermath of Israel’s short-sighted 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Hezbollah is a moderate Shia Islamist political party and militia movement with about 12 percent of the seats in Lebanon’s parliament, and a 100,000 men-strong militia. Concentrated in southern Lebanon, Beirut and in the country’s northeast, Hezbollah’s rejection of Israel’s right to exist, and readiness to fight a campaign of asymmetric warfare with the Tel Aviv, has made it arguably the single greatest headache on the Jewish State’s border, with the two clashing well over half-a-dozen times since the 1980s.

Dubbed “the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor” by the globalist neocon Council on Foreign Relations, Hezbollah has some of the best-trained and battle-hardened fighters in the world, fighting Israel into a stalemate in the 2006 Lebanon War, and playing an indispensable role in the defeat of an array of foreign-sponsored jihadists in Syria from 2012 onward.

Part 2 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31713)

Drone attacking israeli Jal al-Alam site .

https://x.com/TVManar1/status/1833612474530009370

Targeting Talat al-Taihat and the Ramtha site .

https://x.com/TVManar1/status/1833597621333541370

— / NEW: Hezbollah launched a large rocket barrage at the Israeli-occupied city of Safed near the Sea of Galilee; the Iron Dome failed to intercept all of the projectiles

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/9316

Hezbollah targets the Israeli army's Beria and Philon bases in northern occupied Palestine.

/ Hezbollah published a video recorded by an Israeli quadcopter, which shows that Israeli soldiers are preparing leaflets for the border village of Al-Wazzani in southern Lebanon!

This quadcopter was shot down by Hezbollah's electronic warfare systems and the video you see was recovered from the quadcopter memory.

In the past few days, the Israeli regime army distributed warning leaflets to the residents of the border village "Al-Wazzani" and its surrounding areas, demanding them to evacuate this area immediately and go to Khiam.

#Lebanon #Israel

https://t.me/iswnews_en/12462

— / BREAKING: Israel has hacked Hezbollah communication devices all across Lebanon, causing their batteries to explode

Multiple injuries have so far been reported across Lebanon, including in Dahiye, Beirut.

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:06]
— / BREAKING: Hebrew media reports that Hezbollah's entire encrypted internal communications network is down

@Middle_East_Spectator

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:08]
— / WATCH: Injured individuals can be seen in Beirut, with blood on their hands, after Hezbollah's internal comms were hacked, causing an explosion in the battery

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:10]
— / Several people are dead on the streets in Beirut

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:15]
If this is true, Israel is going in.

They decided to shut down Hezbollah's communications before the assault.

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:22]
— / It has now been confirmed that Israel carried out a wide-scale cyberattack, exploding the pagers that Hezbollah uses to communicate

@Middle_East_Spectator

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:26]
— / Remnants of the exploded pagers (internal communication)

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:28]
At the very least, hundreds are injured all across Lebanon, and dozens are killed. Hospitals are completely full in Beirut.

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:30]
— / Footage of a pager exploding in a local market

@Middle_East_Spectator

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:38]
/ To set the news straight, the event is serious, but:

1- Not all people has a Pager
2- Not everyone who has it has the new version of it
3- Not all Pagers blew up
4- Not everyone was carrying it at the time of the explosion

@SNNenglish

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:44]
— / There are hundreds of wounded, some critical, but no confirmed deaths yet

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 10:51]
— / NEW: Some pagers carried by Hezbollah members abroad also exploded, like in Damascus, Syria

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 11:02]
— / NEW: The hospital of the American University in Beirut reportedly took all pagers of its nurses and doctors about 10 days ago, and 'replaced them due to technical issues', according to employees

Lebanese media is accusing the American University hospital of being pre-informed by Israel or the U.S. ahead of the cyberattack.

@Middle_East_Spectator

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 11:11]
— / Horrible visuals from inside a hospital in Beirut, people missing fingers, hands and other parts

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 11:14]
— / BREAKING: Iran's ambassador in Lebanon has been lightly injured by a pager explosion in his vincinity

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 11:27]
— / NEW: According to Reuters, the pagers that exploded were a new model that Hezbollah only started using in recent months

The vast majority of Hezbollah still uses old model pagers, except in Beirut and other large cities, where the new model was starting to become widely circulated.

@Middle_East_Spectator

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 11:41]
The entire security leadership of Israel in addition to Netanyahu, the Minister of War, the head of the Mossad, the Shin Bet, and the National Security Service, are present in the military and security operations room in the hole under the Ministry of War.

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 11:45]
— / BREAKING: The IDF Home Front Command has informed local Israeli authorities of a possible imminent escalation with Lebanon – Kann

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 11:56]
— / The first confirmed death; a 10 year old girl from Beqaa valley

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 12:10]
'Shed our blood, kill us; our nation will awaken even more' — Imam Khomeini

— Hezbollah has released its first initial statement:

'At approximately 15:30 in the afternoon on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, a number of message receiving devices known as 'pager' and carried by a number of people in various Hezbollah units and institutions exploded. These mysterious explosions have so far led to the killing of a girl and two opertives, and a large number of injuries nationwide. ‏

The competent agencies within Hezbollah are currently conducting a wide-ranging security and scientific investigation to find out the reasons that led to these simultaneous explosions, and the medical and health services are treating the wounded and injured in a number of hospitals in various Lebanese regions.

We ask God Almighty for mercy upon our righteous martyrs on the road to Jerusalem, and we pray for a speedy recovery for the wounded and injured, and we call on our dear people to beware of the rumors and false and misleading information spread by some parties in a way that serves psychological warfare in the interest of the Zionist enemy, especially since this is accompanied by intimidating and threatening speeches of the Zionist enemy and what he calls 'changing the situation in the North'.‏

We affirm that the resistance at all levels and its various units is at the highest readiness to defend Lebanon and its steadfast people.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 12:33]
— / Contrary to reports, the pagers that exploded were 'Gold Apollo AR-924' type made in Taiwan, not Motorola

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Middle East Spectator, [17/9/2024 12:33]
— / NEW: The death toll has risen to 8, per the Lebanese Health Ministry

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Pager or phone " explosion , " is more like a small intense fire , at worst causing burns , not fingers being blown off or body blown open . I wonder why they went into so much trouble , planting small explosive inside pagers ? Mass casualties are far more easily caused by biological or chemical weapons of WMD !




Compare .

All they had to do is to switch bad batch for original shipment .

— Hezbollah's second official statement:

'After examining all the current facts, data, and available information about the sinful attack that took place this afternoon, we hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression, which also affected civilians and led to a number of martyrs and the wounding of a large number of various different types.

Our martyrs and wounded are the symbol of our struggle and sacrifices on the road to Jerusalem, a victory for our honorable people in Gaza and the West Bank, and continued field support, and this position of our support for the valiant Palestinian resistance will remain a source of pride and honour in this world and the hereafter.

This treacherous and criminal enemy will certainly receive his just retribution for this sinful aggression, from where it is expected and from where it is not expected, and God is, as we say, a witness.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

I remember , after stuxsnet attack against centrifuges , there were imported parts in Iran , for industrial uses , that had either explosives or tracking devices attached . Also blood products from France to Iran , were contaminated with Aids virus ! Now they complain : " why do you not let Covid vaccine importation into Iran ? "

Looks like no imported product from West or related sources , is to be trusted . All imported products , or even domestic products , anything from food or medical or industrial or agricultural , must be subject to strict safety measures . Similar retaliatory , non- conventional methods , should be used , against enemy state , and the supplier of weaponised goods , taken out .

flamming_python wrote:
Quite the brutal little attack. Just look at those maimings, if you dare

But it has to be said, as a pre-emptive military attack, it's quite clever and successful. The majority of the injured seem to be Hezbollah men, there is less collateral damage than there would be from any sort of missile attack. And a whole bunch were hit at once, and most of them are out for the count with debilitating injuries. Just the sort of attack you need to disrupt co-ordination and communication and take out some valuable targets that you wouldn't be able to get any other way.

They hit the reservists. Full time militants live on bases and don`t have to work a job so they don`t need pagers.

The 5000 device of AP924 Model Pager, were Subcontracted to a Company in Europe.

That was a smart move but less likely to make a long term affect on Hezbollah , by contrast the resistance will be more careful about what devices they are using .

Hezbollah pledges retaliation for the pager attack

Hezbollah will respond to Israel for massacre, committed against Lebanese people, the movement said in a statement on Telegram.

This comes after at least 11 people were killed and more than 4,000 were injured as a result of the mass pager explosion (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/33029) across Lebanon on Tuesday.

Hezbollah also said it "will continue, as in all the past days, its blessed operations to support Gaza".

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