(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah - In the media battle Hizbullah is waging against Israel, the Shiite movement recently broadcast a video about a mega-tunnel called Imad 4 in which heavy trucks could be seen speeding on a long underground road towing ballistic missiles and then erecting launch positions. Nasrallah has threatened to expand the war to areas left untouched in the past ten months, such as Akko, Nahariya, Safed, Tiberias, and other localities in the north of Israel that were not evacuated. Since the beginning of the war, Iranian-backed Hizbullah has been boasting about its successes including the incursion of spy drones which took pictures of sensitive targets in northern Israel on several occasions. With the evacuation of Israeli citizens from their homes in the north, Nasrallah boasted that he had imposed on Israel a security zone inside Israel just like the one that used to exist inside Lebanon. He also hinted that a repeat of the October 7 attack might be carried out by Hizbullah's Radwan forces on the northern front. These themes are part of the psychological warfare conducted against Israel. At the same time, Nasrallah faces a very different reality. Almost 600 Hizbullah combatants, including senior commanders, have been killed and thousands wounded. Hizbullah has seen the destruction of nearly 8,000 houses in the south of Lebanon and the flight of 120,000 civilians to Tyre, Sidon, and Beirut. The writer, former Deputy Head for Assessment of Israeli Military Intelligence, is a fellow of the Jerusalem Center.
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