Residents inspecting the damage after the raid that targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (Credit: Anwar Amro/AFP)
The critical military situation in Lebanon has reached a point of no return. The sabotage attacks targeting Hezbollah's communication devices should no longer be analyzed solely from a security perspective — they mark a new round in a broader, unprecedented war. The targeted strike on Hezbollah's elite unit leader, Ibrahim Aqil, on Friday in Beirut's southern suburbs is part of this. Hezbollah has suffered an extensive operation that affected both its organizational structure and military personnel, horizontally and vertically. While Hezbollah and its allies in the "Axis of Resistance" are investigating the sabotage operations and how the devices managed to bypass detection systems during scanning, they also have a tougher mission to handle militarily and morally — to restore its deterrence and rehabilitate its image. Read also What we...
The critical military situation in Lebanon has reached a point of no return. The sabotage attacks targeting Hezbollah's communication devices should no longer be analyzed solely from a security perspective — they mark a new round in a broader, unprecedented war. The targeted strike on Hezbollah's elite unit leader, Ibrahim Aqil, on Friday in Beirut's southern suburbs is part of this. Hezbollah has suffered an extensive operation that affected both its organizational structure and military personnel, horizontally and vertically. While Hezbollah and its allies in the "Axis of Resistance" are investigating the sabotage operations and how the devices managed to bypass detection systems during scanning, they also have a tougher mission to handle militarily and morally — to restore its deterrence and rehabilitate its image. Read also...
