Israeli media reported additional costs that Israel faces after seeing its funding sources reduced. The new open fronts and the decrease in “inputs” led to an expansion of the country’s annual budget until $6.7 billion.
The report adds that the cost of munitions used in Lebanon is “extremely high,” referring to an unnamed military source who said: “a day of fighting in Lebanon costs $134 milliona figure that is likely to increase.”
A senior IDF official confirmed to newspaper Yediot Ahronoth, that only munitions used in the ten-second operation to eliminate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in the bunker bombing in the Dahiya neighborhood of Beirut, It cost 25 million shekels (more than 6 million euros). In addition to the price of the assassination of his successor, Hachem Safieddine, it cost others 20 million shekels (5 million euros).
Yediot Ahronoth, quoting an anonymous economist, he assures that the simultaneous fighting in the north and the south will have harmful long-term effects on the Israeli economy.
“Pull out your chest”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant welcomed this Sunday the results obtained so far by the troops in the ground incursion into southern Lebanon which, he assured, makes it possible to “destroy” the militia Shiite Hezbollah and its military capabilities.
“We don’t just destroy the enemybut we also dismantle their tunnels, their weapons depots and their attack infrastructure. The result is clear: In the places that Hezbollah was preparing to use as platforms to attack us, there are now troops conducting operations,” Gallant told the Army’s 98th Division after visiting today the border between Israel and Lebanon.
On the other hand, the Minister of Defense indicated that the members of the Lebanese group captured by Israeli forces share more information with them and that They seem “terrified” to the possibility that his militia “collapses”.
“Prisoners tell us what’s happening and that they’re terrified because they know they don’t have what it takes to deal with what’s happening on the battlefield. Not in terms of strength, combat capacity, precision or determination”, the soldiers were moved.
This Sunday, Israel again intensively bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut, known as Dahye, after the Israeli army ordered the evacuation of several points in this disaster zone located about six kilometers from the Lebanese capital, today transformed into a ghost suburb.
