The Chief of General Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Lieutenant Colonel Herzi Halevi, assured this Friday that the “most conservative estimates” suggest that at least 1,500 members of the Shiite militia Hezbollah are dead. victims of attacks by the Israeli army. on Lebanon.
“I suspect there are more and we don’t know,” Halevi said during a meeting with soldiers from Golani Brigadedeployed in southern Lebanon. Likewise, the highest Israeli military official highlighted the “very important achievements” obtained by the Israeli army in its offensive against Islamist militias.
Thus, Halevi assured that the IDF is fully committed to the goal of attacking Hezbollah “as hard as possible”, and stressed that last month the group was decapitated with the death of its secretary general, Hasan Nasrallah, and several of his possible successors.
“We eliminated the entire higher level of command, you eliminate the entire level of local command (in southern Lebanon),” said Halevi, who echoed an argument made by the Israeli government that Hezbollah is trying to hide. the huge losses suffered in just over a month, reports Ep..
Finally, Halevi claimed that the Iranian regime, Hezbollah’s main backer, is unable to understand what is happening in Lebanon, so the Shiite militia – “the central arm on which it was built” in the country – adds losses. . every week. “We try to ensure that every day there is a surprise,” he stressed.
Later, the IDF reported that during “targeted fighting” over the past 24 hours in southern Lebanon, approximately “60 Hezbollah terrorists” were killed in “close-range clashes and aerial attacks.” Furthermore, specific operations in the area made it possible to seize weapons.
“In addition, during the operation in the area, fighters of the Golani Brigade Combat Team located and destroyed numerous weapons, including explosives, mortars, mines, RPGs and d “other military equipment”, underlined the Israeli army in a press release. on the war situation in Lebanon.
Lebanese authorities have confirmed that more than 2,400 people have died and nearly 11,300 others have been injured in Israeli attacks over the past year, particularly in the past month, when the IDF intensified its bombings in the country and even launched a land incursion. towards the south.
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah erupted just over a year ago when Islamist militias launched projectiles into Israeli territory in solidarity with the Palestinian cause and after Hamas attacked Israel, killing nearly 1 200 dead and 240 hostages, which motivated the Israeli response, which totaled more than 42,300 dead.
In mid-September, the Israeli army intensified its offensive against Hezbollah with “selective bombings” against positions in southern Lebanon and even in neighborhoods of Beirut. These attacks succeeded in decapitating the Islamist group with the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and some of his possible successors.
The high number of injuries is due to the coordinated explosion of thousands of communications devices in early September –you are looking for And walkie talkies– allegedly linked to Hezbollahwhich, along with its partners, quickly came forward to hold Israel responsible, without making any statement on the matter.
