fight between Israel and Hezbollah This has escalated sharply over the past month as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began targeting terrorist network hot spots and military storage units, all strategically embedded within civilian villages.
Photos and video of recent attacks in southern Lebanon provided to Fox News Digital show precision missiles striking civilian buildings.
Hezbollah’s use of civilian infrastructure has not only created a sophisticated network of meeting houses, weapons storage units, and well-disguised missile launching positions in southern Lebanon and the suburbs of Beirut, but has ensured that a war with Hezbollah would have happened without it. Cannot be done. extreme collateral damage,
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Hezbollah rockets are placed in a building in Lebanon. (IDF Spokesperson Unit.)
More than 1,800 people have been injured since Monday it has been reported And according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, at least 560 people are believed to have died, including 50 children and more than 90 women.
On Thursday, the US again urged Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon, and Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh confirmed to reporters that the US will not provide military or intelligence assistance to Jerusalem in its Lebanon-based campaign. Used to be.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls from the international community for a ceasefire and instead instructed his troops to continue fighting “with full force”.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned Israel on Wednesday that it “cannot expand its campaign to Lebanon without consequences” as commanders along the Israel-Lebanon border ordered their troops to “be prepared” for a possible ground invasion. Was.
No attacks have been ordered at this time, although Israeli and American security experts told Fox News Digital that the network that Hezbollah has established at the foundation of everyday life within Lebanon means that the terrorist network has access to Also war would be even more costly in human terms. More life than what has been seen in Gaza.
Smoke rises from Israeli air strikes on villages in the Nabatiyeh district, seen from the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussain Malla)
According to the Israel-based Alma Research and Education Center, a non-profit organization that researches Israeli security challenges along the border with Lebanon, Hezbollah has long relied on the use of civilian infrastructure to meet its needs.
“The phenomenon of Hezbollah renting houses, rooms, warehouses within Shia civilian areas has been known since the early 2000s,” Tal Bieri, head of the research department at Alma, told Fox News Digital. Structures also in non-Shia areas of Lebanon.
“Evidence in this case was found in looted documents and investigations of Hezbollah operatives Second Lebanon War in 2006Since then, Hezbollah has only intensified this phenomenon and it is estimated that every third house in southern Lebanon has been used by Hezbollah for its needs,” he said.
Beery shared research with Fox News Digital that showed the findings 2021 Breaking the Sophisticated System In which Hezbollah has involved itself in the everyday activities of local villages across the country.
A man shows photos as he sifts through the debris of a building in an area targeted by overnight Israeli air strikes in the city of Saqqiyeh, Lebanon, September 26, 2024. Israel rejected a push led by key backer the United States on 26 September. Lebanon called for a 21-day ceasefire as it vowed to keep fighting Hezbollah militants “until victory”. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images)
Hezbollah officials called it “Rabat” – which roughly translates to “contact” – it has been set up in villages across Lebanon and serves as terrorist group representativeFacilitating the needs of villagers in coordination with Hezbollah’s hyper-localized operations.
Rabat, who may oversee multiple villages, reportedly establishes relationships with residents by facilitating requests for assistance such as money, food, and even local disputes.
Biri found, “In locations where Hezbollah decides to confiscate or lease civilian land or properties from residents for the purpose of its military activities, ‘Rabat’ conducts the confiscation or leasing process for the resident concerned ”
The report, based on documents seized after the 2006 war with Hezbollah, found that Rabat recommended to local Hezbollah units the best locations in each city based on concealment, storage requirements around infrastructure and “human shields”. are suitable” to serve the strategy. Types and weapon placement.
Photos show civilian buildings used by Hezbollah to store weapons in Lebanon. (Photo provided by Israel Defense Forces)
Rabat then coordinates logistics between the terrorist organization and the local property owner.
“‘Rabat’ tightens Hezbollah’s grip on the daily lives of Lebanese village residents, their property and needs, allowing Hezbollah to turn them into human shields on a wide scale,” the report found.
Hezbollah’s control over local communities and its ability to accumulate and move weapons throughout the country through a sophisticated tunnel system demonstrate that UN Resolution 1701 passed in 2006 Has failed to prevent a third war between terrorist networks and Israel.
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While it is unclear whether UN Security Council members want to improve the resolution to counter the terrorist group’s activities and halt Israeli operations in civilian areas, the international community has called on Netanyahu to halt his campaign. – Many leaders of both opposition and allied countries have warned against attacking Lebanon.
Netanyahu is set to address the UN body on Friday, in what has been described as the most by the Israeli ambassador to the UN. They have seen a “hostile” environment In his almost 10 years of attending top summits.
