Hezbollah has a huge arsenal of rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles that it can deploy to counter Israeli advances and gains.
The Wall Street Journal reported that among Hezbollah’s most dangerous new weapons is an Iranian-made guided anti-tank missile called thediamond“Which gives Hezbollah a high degree of accuracy in its strikes compared to what it had when it fought its last war with Israel in 2006.
The risk of a full-scale war escalated on Monday, after Israel intensified its air strikes on Lebanon Including the capital Beirut, killing nearly 500 people and wounding more than 1,600 others in the bloodiest day in Lebanon since the start of the Gaza war last year.
Israel says it wants to push Hezbollah away from the border and weaken its military capabilities so that some 60,000 people who were forced to evacuate their homes in northern Israel can leave.
According to sources familiar with Hezbollah, the group has accelerated its preparations for war in recent months, expanding its network of tunnels in southern Lebanon and repositioning fighters and weapons.
US and regional officials say Iran has increased supplies of small arms andRocket shellsin addition to the party’s long-range guided and unguided missiles.
“The south is like a beehive now. Everything the Iranians have, we have,” said a former Hezbollah military officer, referring to military preparations.
Military analysts say that Hezbollah It could copy the tactics Russia is using in Ukraine, launching barrages of missiles and swarms of drones in an attempt to confuse or disable Israeli air defenses and hit military bases, ports and the country’s power grid.
asymmetric warfare
Hezbollah is unlikely to be able to outmaneuver or decisively defeat Israel in a conventional war, and Israeli air strikes since October 7 have inflicted heavy losses on its leadership. Hezbollah It likely degraded some of Hezbollah’s military capabilities, including rocket launch sites and weapons stockpiles.
However, Hezbollah will not seek to win a war with Israel in the traditional sense, but rather aims to mire Israeli forces in a war of attrition, just as it did. Hamas Movement.
