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Israeli Defense Minister: Hizbullah Is Battered and Broken

(X) Michael Doran - Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told IDF officers from the Northern Command on Tuesday: "Hizbullah is an organization without a head. Nasrallah was eliminated, his replacement was also probably eliminated. This thing has a dramatic effect on everything that happens. There is no one to make decisions, no one to act. The fire complex that Hizbullah built over the years with a huge Iranian investment has [today been reduced to a level of capabilities similar to the level that Hamas started the war with] and maybe below that. All this together with the significant action that is being taken on the front...is peeling away all the capabilities." "There is fear, there is panic, there is desertion, there is an erosion of the Hizbullah organization which is of a different magnitude. The organization...has never experienced anything like this." "The actions we are taking are observed all over the Middle East. When the smoke in Lebanon clears, in Iran they will realize that they have lost their most valuable asset - which is Hizbullah. Today we are one year from the beginning of the war, the result...is that Hamas is a disintegrated organization." "Hizbullah is a battered, broken organization, without command and control capabilities, without significant fire capabilities...and above all, without leadership at any level - not at the political level, not at the military level, not in the ability to make decisions. We need to take advantage of that, because our goal is to return the residents of the north to their homes safely." "The meaning of security is that the residents know that there is nothing on the other side that can endanger them and the actions you are taking will allow us to return the residents to their homes when the time comes safely and change the situation completely." The writer is director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute.
2024-10-10 00:00:00
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