According to a report by the British newspaper The Times, Hezbollah He has an army of thousands of soldiers, in addition to 150,000 missiles and shells of various types.
Matthew Saville Director of Military Science at Royal United Services Institute (Russian) I consider that Israel It realizes that air strikes alone are not sufficient to target Hezbollah’s infrastructure, most of which is expected to be underground.
Because Hezbollah possesses unconventional strategies, tactics and military advantages in ground combat, the party’s leader said: Hassan Nasrallah Earlier, the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon was not a threat but a “historic opportunity.”
“The security belt will turn into hell for your army if you decide to come to our land,” he warned.
A theatre equipped for guerrilla warfare
Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli analyst, says Hezbollah’s goal was to “draw Israel into the hell of southern Lebanon as the most determined, armed and strategic theater forguerrilla “Anywhere in the world probably.”
He adds that southern Lebanon, with its rolling hills and valleys, poses a challenge to any army that wants to invade it.
Justin Crump, a former officer in the British Army The director of the Sibilin Intelligence Company, said that some Hezbollah positions have a clear view from the top of the cliffs, in addition to the fact that Hezbollah militants are hiding inside caves and tunnels that are designed in a way that allows defenders to fire on the flanks and front of the advancing forces.
Experts at the Alma Center for Research and Education, which focuses on security challenges on Israel’s northern border, have estimated that the cumulative length of Hezbollah’s tunnel network in southern Lebanon is hundreds of miles.
Unlike tunnels Hamas Movement Inside Gaza, which was primarily used for smuggling goods and weapons, Hezbollah tunnels They exist for tactical military reasons, and some are offensive tunnels that can be accessed by medium-sized trucks.
There are tactical tunnels located near the villages, which enable the militants to fight from underground in a way that allows them to fire from the tunnel openings and jump inside to rearm before emerging again.
Hezbollah’s forces consist primarily of infantry trained in stealth and mobility, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a US security think tank.
If the Israeli army is forced into prepared terrain, Hezbollah fighters will be able to take advantage of hidden and fortified positions.
Lina Khatib, an associate fellow at Chatham House, says Hezbollah has always operated through “hit-and-run attacks” where two fighters typically appear on a motorbike, fire rockets, and then flee, which can be done from open ground or even private property.
Hezbollah is believed to have received medium- and long-range missiles, ballistic missiles, drones and mines from Tehran.
If Israel launches a ground war, it would likely face a massive barrage of conventional missiles, believed to be about 10,000 of the party’s long-range, precision-guided rockets that could wreak havoc on Israeli cities and towns.
The party also received more capable anti-tank weapons than it had the last time it faced Israel in combat in southern Lebanon, capable of penetrating thick armor, such as the Kornet andThunder missiles Iranian.
