Military expert: Hezbollah and Israel are escalating on the ground, and there is no political solution on the horizon news
Military expert Brigadier General Elias Hanna said that Hezbollah and Israel are still clinging to their strengths, and he considered the speech of Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem “an indication of a show of strength” coinciding with the bombing of Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv.
Hanna explained – in his speech to Al Jazeera – that Qassem’s new speech represents a new stage “that separates a previous escalation from a subsequent one” at the level of the resistance’s preparedness and readiness to confront the Israeli army.
Qassem said in his new speech, today, Wednesday, that “Hezbollah’s exclusive option is to prevent the Israeli occupation from achieving its goals.”
He stressed that “stopping the aggressive war depends on the field,” and “the resistance’s missiles and aircraft will reach everywhere in Israel.”
Deterrence is not enough through statements alone, but rather through showing force, according to the military expert, which was translated today into the bombing of military bases outside Haifa, and the landing of a missile on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
The Israeli Channel 12 confirmed that air traffic stopped at Ben Gurion Airport after the missile fell, while the Israeli police confirmed that missile fragments had fallen in the greater Tel Aviv area, without causing any casualties.
Hanna said that Hezbollah is targeting an Israeli strategic triangle that “has everything,” referring to Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem, while Israel is targeting a vital triangle for Hezbollah, represented by southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut, and the Bekaa region.
The military expert said that Naim Qassem’s speech stressed adherence to the south of the Litani River, “and waiting to engage the Israeli army and exhaust it in a long war and not lose first.”
The Litani River extends 170 kilometers from its source in the east to its mouth in the west, and is about 30 kilometers from the Lebanese-Israeli border.
On the other hand, Israel is using its strengths at the intelligence and air force levels, in order to raise “the cost of punitive deterrence to an advanced degree, so that Hezbollah will accept submission,” according to Hanna.
The military expert concluded that the two parties “are still at a stage that is not close to reaching a political solution.”
Since September 23, Israel has expanded its war against Hezbollah to include most of Lebanon’s regions, including the capital, Beirut, through air raids of unprecedented violence and intensity. It also began a ground incursion into its south, relying on 5 military divisions operating along the border with Lebanon.
