New Hezbollah is prepared to confront Israeli aggression

An open letter to Lebanese authorities disclosed significant information.

The Israeli government, through its Minister of War, has threatened to eliminate “Hezbollah”. Its military spokesperson, Afikhai Adraee, urgently tells people in southern Lebanon to leave right away, along with the Israeli war cabinet holding an emergency meeting to plan an attack on Lebanon; all these signs strongly indicate that war could start very soon, possibly within hours instead of days or weeks.

It is evident that Hezbollah, whose Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem has confirmed, has fully recovered and reorganised its internal military, political, and leadership structures and has emerged as a genuine and existential threat to the occupying state, perhaps more so than at any previous time. According to Israeli military leaks, Hezbollah has managed to rebuild its ability to make precise missiles at home. It has set up smuggling routes for weapons from Iran through Syria, going around the temporary leadership backed by the United States and against its plans.

These Israeli threats, which were anticipated and came after airstrikes targeting what Israel claimed were missile manufacturing facilities and training camps for the party across various regions, affirm that the aims of the aggression against Lebanon—primarily the dismantling of the resistance led by the party—have not been realised. Conversely, they may have reinforced the party on a new foundation. The state has failed to disarm the party, ignite a sectarian civil conflict, or integrate Lebanon into the normalisation process and the Abraham Accords framework.

A Lebanese source close to Hezbollah informed us that the new generation of young leaders, some of whom possess degrees from Arab and international universities while others have received military training in various regional (Iran) and allied (Russia and North Korea) countries, has not only revitalised the party and its military and leadership structures but also now occupies the highest positions within its leadership, advancing and modernising its previous resistance efforts. Legacy: Hezbollah established a new foundation on the site of the Great Sunday Attack, during which military targets were struck in the centre of Tel Aviv and Haifa, notably the headquarters of the world’s leading intelligence unit ( 8200) and Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea. This bombing compelled the Israeli leadership to seek assistance from the American administration in advocating for a prompt armistice in November of the previous year. Sheikh Naim Qassem, the Secretary-General of the party, was correct in highlighting these significant accomplishments from his leadership position.

The open letter that Hezbollah sent two days ago to the three main leaders—Joseph Aoun, the President; Nabih Berri, the Speaker of Parliament; and Nawaf Salam, the Prime Minister—as well as to the Lebanese people, shows the new leadership’s stronger commitment to continue resisting and fighting against the American-Israeli threat to Lebanon and the wider region.
This unprecedented open letter encompasses four primary arguments, which we can sum up and interpret as follows:

• First: “Israel” has failed to comply with the ceasefire agreement established last November and has persisted in its aggression against Lebanese territory, violating it over 5,000 times. This indicates that the party is no longer committed to the agreement.

• Second: Lebanon’s priority is to halt the aggression, not to succumb to extortion or to be enticed into political negotiations under the conditions set by the enemy and the biased American mediator.

• Third: The party affirms its lawful right to oppose the Israeli occupation and aggression aimed at subjugating and humiliating the Lebanese state, as well as the direct occupation of Lebanese territory.

• Fourth: refusal to neutralise the party and its opposition through all possible means and methods; as long as occupation persists, resistance shall continue.

This open letter, outlining the party’s definitive positions, served as a clear and resolute repudiation of Lebanese President Aoun’s declaration in which he stated, “Negotiating with the occupying More importantly, starting the attack will show that the Israeli military has fallen into Hezbollah’s trap, since Hezbollah has held back from starting the conflict for over a year to avoid reacting to enemy provocations and breaking the ceasefire. mediate negotiations.

The Israeli military, should it proceed with its threats and initiate an attack on Lebanon—which has conducted ground, naval, and aerial manoeuvres near the Lebanese border over the past two weeks in preparation—for 150 million dollars, may have committed a grave political and military error, potentially marking the beginning of its decline. More importantly, the commencement of the attack will affirm its entrapment in Hezbollah’s strategic deception, as Hezbollah has refrained from initiating the conflict, exercising over twelve months of restraint to avoid succumbing to enemy provocations and violations of the ceasefire.

We conclude this article by revisiting the most significant paragraph from the statements of the source closely associated with “Hezbollah” that we previously cited but did not explicitly mention. The source stated verbatim: “Iran employed only 500 precision-guided missiles” (Fattah, Sijil, and Khyber) during the 12-day conflict, successfully penetrating all advanced American-made Israeli air defences and destroying half of Tel Aviv and the world’s largest Weizmann Institute of Science, resulting in the deaths and injuries of hundreds, if not thousands, of Israelis. Hezbollah currently has approximately 7,500 precision-guided missiles of similar varieties, if not more, and, according to sources, these missiles will not remain stored in their warehouses in the event of Israeli aggression.

During the “Support War” initiated by Hezbollah, which persisted for over a year in aid of the fighters in the Gaza Strip and in support of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation (October 7, 2023), more than 150,000 settlers evacuated from Galilee, incurring losses amounting to billions of dollars in compensation and living expenses for the entity. Only approximately twenty-five percent of them returned following the ceasefire. I question how many of these will evacuate, possibly from Tel Aviv, Haifa, Akka, and all the cities along the coast and in the interior, should Hezbollah’s new missiles target them in retaliation for any act of aggression. We should not overlook the urgency of the situation, as hundreds of thousands or even millions of settlers may be affected by Yemeni missiles that could descend like rain in acts of support and solidarity.

Hezbollah will not require supersonic missiles, as even if positioned in the northern Litani, approximately 30 km from the frontier with occupied Galilee, Katyusha rockets alone suffice. And an additional quantity is invariably preferable.

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