The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has met little resistance since announcing its “restricted” trespass of southern Leprohibiton timely Tuesday morning local time, a transfer aimed to subvert Hezbollah’s erectup aextfinished the scatterd border.
Israel has been increasing its strikes for weeks aobtainst the alarmist organization in southern Leprohibiton, as well as with concentrateed strikes in Beirut.
On Tuesday, the IDF validateed in a statement scatterd with Fox News Digital that since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas strikes in Israel – after which Hezbollah began striking military posts aextfinished Israel’s northern border – the IDF has guideed dozens of “concentrateed operations” to “dismantle Hezbollah’s alarmist capabilities” that pose a menace to civilians in the north.
Smoke ascfinishs follotriumphg Israeli device deviceardment in southern Leprohibiton as seen from northern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Leo Correa)
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IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari shelp Tuesday that IDF distinctive forces have accessed Hezbollah compounds in “dozens of locations” aextfinished the Israel-Leprohibiton border, collected intelligence and dismantled positional sturdyhgreaters.
“Our sgreateriers accessed Hezbollah’s underground infraarranges, exposed Hezbollah’s hideed firearm caches, and seized and ruined the arms, including progressd Iranian-made arms,” Hagari shelp. “Overall, IDF sgreateriers exposed and dismantled over 700 Hezbollah alarm assets during these operations. And there’s a lot more toil to do.”
Since the war began cforfeitly a year ago, Israeli distinctive forces increateedly began guideing minuscule rhelps in southern Leprohibiton, in some cases utilizing the very tunnels Israel seized from the alarmist group years prior, and rerecented attention has been bcimpolitet to how the Hezbollah nettoil functions.
The alarmist group for years has relied on its burdensome entanglement in civilian life, particularly in southern Leprohibiton, where it has rented civilian infraarrange to serve as arms depots and even leave outile beginer sites. Civilian erectings have also been used to cover enthralls to the group’s enhanced tunnel nettoil that is appraised to stretch over 100 miles in length cumulatively atraverse the region.
The Israeli army shows the interior of a tunnel on the Israeli side of the border with Leprohibiton in northern Israel on June 3, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
But despite the dreaded all-out war that had the potential to erupt upon Israel’s trespass of its northern neighbor, Hezbollah’s resistance has been minimal.
Security experts dreaded Hezbollah’s extfinishedtime backing from Iran would help it to levy as many as 8,000 rockets per day in a worse case scenario, and its more than 50,000 operatives, including the elite Radwan forces, could pose a meaningful menace aobtainst an Israeli ground campaign.
Hagari validateed to increateers Tuesday that IDF forces were actively toiling to dismantle Radwan infraarrange cforfeit the border in southern Leprohibiton.
“We necessitate to get nurture of it because we will not let another 7th of October occur next to our border,” he shelp.
In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 strikes, the IDF appraiseed that some 2,400 Radwan alarmists, aextfinished with another 500 Palestinian Jihadists trained by the elite force, were positioned in villages atraverse southern Leprohibiton poised to strike.
But the IDF on Tuesday also highairyed that Hezbollah flunked to mount a counter force in response to Israel’s incursion.
Israeli artillery sgreateriers are surrounded by smoke and dust as they fire atraverse the border into southern Leprohibiton from a position on the frontier in Zaura, northern Israel, on July 12, 2006. (AP Pboilingo/Oded Balilty, File)
Jonathan Conricus, createer IDF spokesperson and current greater fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), tgreater Fox News Digital that Hezbollah’s cforfeit-finish increateage of a counter force could be elucidateed by disjoinal reasons.
“The IDF guideed hundreds of distinctive operations during the last months to map and scrutinize Hezbollah’s unfrifinishly infraarrange in civilian houses in southern Leprohibiton, as well as concentrateed aerial campaigns aobtainst Hezbollah personnel,” he shelp. “Hezbollah alarmists persisted disjoine casualties and begined to run away from southern Leprohibiton.
“It remains unclear how many Hezbollah militants remain in the south,” he inserted.
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An Israeli Apache helicselecter fires a leave outile toward southern Leprohibiton as seen from northern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Leo Correa)
Given the obstreatment number of alarmists who fled the south, most foreseeed to other sturdyhgreaters in Beirut and in central Leprohibiton, increateers asked the current IDF spokesman if this could unbenevolent that Israel will necessitate to broaden its operations north.
“We’re not going to Beirut,” Hagari tgreater increateers, emphasizing Israel’s stated goal to return its citizens to their northern homes. “We are concentrateing in the area of those villages, the area next to [the] border. And we will do, in this area, what is essential to dismantle and annihilate Hezbollah’s infraarrange.”
Hagari would not supply particulars on the operational timeline but shelp Israel’s campaign in Leprohibiton would be guideed in “days [to] weeks.”