It seems that leaving aside the Palestinian Hamas, because of which Israel had to face the deadliest attack in its history and because of which the whole world started looking at Israel with questioning eyes, Israel is now adamant on eliminating Hezbollah first. That is why Israel breached Lebanon’s security and blasted Hezbollah’s pager. Then blasted their walkie-talkie. Then radio. Then laptop. Then solar system. Blasts were done everywhere. Nothing was left. Complete destruction was caused. And this destruction is not over yet. But the question is why.
Hamas is Israel’s biggest enemy. So why is Israel using all its strength and preparations against Hezbollah instead of Hamas? On 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas fired more than 8 thousand rockets on Israel simultaneously, it was one of the biggest attacks in Israel’s history. Immediately after this attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would destroy Hamas. And after this a war broke out between Palestine’s Gaza Strip and Israel. This war is still going on and at least 50 thousand people have died in it so far. During this war, Israel has made every effort to destroy Hamas.
End of Hamas chief
Israel has killed Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh by entering Iran. Israel has already killed Hamas military chief Mohammad Daif. Before this Israel has killed two other top Hamas commanders Ayman Showadah and Bilal al-Qadra. But the more Hamas fighters Israel is killing, the more top commanders it is killing, the more new fighters, the more new commanders are being created and they are finding new ways to attack Israel every day. So now Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have also almost accepted that this war will continue like this.
Will Israel destroy Hezbollah?
Israel has probably now vowed to destroy its second circumcision, that is, Hezbollah of Lebanon. That is why, after a long preparation, Israel caused a bomb explosion in the pager used by Hezbollah fighters, then blew up the walkie-talkie. Then, from radio sets to laptops and solar systems, everything was destroyed with a bomb. In such a situation, it becomes important to understand whether Hezbollah of Lebanon is really such a big enemy of Israel that Israel has to make such a big preparation for it. The answer to this is found in history.
What is the history of enmity with Hezbollah?
Its history is as old as the history of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. When Israel and Palestine were divided in 1948, many Palestinians had to flee and take refuge in Lebanon. They were angry at having to leave their country and they always considered Israel to be the reason for this. So their anger against Israel kept smoldering, but they were never able to come to a situation where they could fight Israel. Meanwhile, in 1979, the Islamic Revolution took place in Iran and power changed in Iran under the leadership of Ayatollah Khamenei. And after this, Iran started helping the refugees who fled from Palestine and reached Lebanon. In 1982, these refugees from Lebanon, along with about 1500 fighters of the Iranian army, formed an army and named it Hezbollah. This is the same Hezbollah, which gave training to Hamas in suicide bombing, which it had learned from Iran.
Is Iran supporting Hezbollah?
Obviously this is the reason that when Hamas attacked Israel, Hezbollah also took advantage of the opportunity and attacked Israel. Now Israel is fighting Hamas, but before that it is fighting Hezbollah so that by eliminating Hezbollah it can be a little relaxed about Iran as well. Because Hezbollah gets its real nourishment from Iran only.
Advanced Force Unit 8200 deployed against Hezbollah
If Hezbollah is destroyed, Iran will not be able to fight a proxy war against Israel through Hezbollah. Therefore, Israel deployed not only its intelligence agency Mossad but also its Advanced Force Unit 8200 against Hezbollah. This is the same unit which pushed Iran so far behind by blasting its nuclear plants that it could not become a nuclear-rich country till date. So this unit followed Hezbollah for a year and then within a day, blew up all the communication devices that Hezbollah used.
In such a situation, even if Hezbollah says that it will take revenge for this attack and will attack Israel, but it is certain that Hezbollah has suffered a big blow due to this operation of Israel and it will take time for Hezbollah to recover from it.