Hezbollah He admitted that a number of his leaders were killed in the recent strike on the southern suburb, but an Israeli official went further, revealing to the Axios website that the Israeli raid killed twenty leaders of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, as they were holding a secret meeting.
For his part, the Israeli Chief of Staff revealed, Herzi HaleviThe eliminated leaders were planning a similar attack to the October 7 attack on the northern border.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that the Israeli army seized the opportunity after learning of a rare secret meeting of the entire leadership of the Radwan Force.
In this context, military and security expert Ayyad Al-Tufan said:
- Working in Hezbollah is a collective effort. All the leaders they lost can be replaced, but not at the same level. The leaders who were targeted have accumulated experience over decades.
- Teamwork has its advantages but its disadvantages are greater in the case of lack of insurance and immunization.
- Assassination Saleh Al-Arouri A lesson that Hezbollah had to learn from, and it is evidence of a breach within the party’s ranks.
For his part, academic and researcher in international relations Ali Shukr said:
- If we monitor Hezbollah’s path, we will see that it has lost Secretary-General Abbas al-Moussawi and many leaders, most notably Imad Mughniyeh.
- The party’s mechanism of action, through previous experiences, proves that it will not be unable to move forward despite the targeting of the leadership.
- The party was subjected to very strong blows and the Secretary-General admitted this, but this did not affect the readiness of the resistance.
- It is true that the targeted leaders have some experience, but I emphasize that the party has cadres who volunteered in its ranks and joined the old leaders, and thus the party today has a veteran generation that is advanced on the technical and logistical level.
Organizational structure of Hezbollah
Senior military officials or advisors in HezbollahTitles that are trending in Israel after a series of Israeli attacks on the party, during which it lost a significant number of these leaders.
The recent days, which witnessed the hacking of pagers and wireless devices and the killing of prominent military leader Ibrahim Aqil, contributed to unveiling what is known as the organizational structure and the “Jihad Council” of Hezbollah.
Replicating the experience of leftist parties
There are no fundamental differences in Hezbollah’s composition from the rest of the Lebanese parties.
Hezbollah is accused by its opponents of copying the structure of the leftist parties that preceded it, but ideological differences have made secrecy a title surrounding its activity.
The party’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, is the head of the organizational structure and enjoys very broad organizational powers in terms of supervising the work and activities of the Jihad Council and managing it. Shura Council.
The composition of the “Jihad Council”
As for the “Jihad Council”, of which only the name Muhammad Karaki remains after the killing of Ibrahim Aqil and before him Fouad Shukr in the southern suburbs of Beirut, it consists of the head of the executive council, the military official, the security official, and the representative of the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei.
Responsibilities of the “Jihad Council”
The Jihad Council is responsible for managing Hezbollah’s work in terms of planning, oversight, recruitment, training, equipment, and military and security decision-making.
The Council also undertakes communication and coordination with the party’s various organizational and political bodies as needed.
Jihad Council activity during escalation
During the escalation with Israel, the Council evaluates all the circumstances facing Hezbollah in all arenas, and decides on its military strategies based on in-depth studies and data, and also determines the broad outlines of the military units, under the direct guidance of the party’s Secretary-General.
Hezbollah Executive Council
In addition to the “Jihad Council”, Hezbollah has an executive apparatus headed by Hashem Safieddine.
This council is considered the organizational heart from which other organizational units in the party branch out, such as media, social work, health, education, and general mobilization.
These many branches of the party’s structure become, in the view of military analysts, useless in times of escalation.
The major challenge facing the party is to restore the “Jihad Council” as a priority after it received blows described as harsh and unprecedented, as admitted by the party’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah himself.
Military and security expert Ayyad Al-Tufan said:
- Start of formation Hezbollah It used to operate in great secrecy but has expanded over the years.
- The Jihad Council lost many of its major leaders, such as: Singer Thanks.
- The distribution of the southern Lebanon region into sectors revealed many of these leaders.
For his part, academic and researcher in international relations Ali Shukr said:
- Hezbollah’s composition is different from other political parties in Lebanon.
- Hezbollah has been subjected to many assassinations, but it has continued.
The party has the ability to produce alternatives even if the Secretary-General is assassinated, and the assassination of Abbas Al-Moussawi The appointment of Hassan Nasrallah as his successor is an example of this. - Iran will not bring in a person from outside the party to appoint him to a leadership position, but it may prefer more than one name on the candidate list.
