[News] Israeli officials' jaws drop over Hezbollah's complex operations

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Israeli officials' jaws drop over Hezbollah's complex operations
Al Mayadeen English
May 17, 2024
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Israeli media outlets shed light on a series of Hezbollah attacks that have
cast a dark shadow over "Israel's" military capabilities.
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   - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in
   Petah Tikva, occupied Palestine, on March 7, 2020. *(AP)*

Multiple Israeli media outlets are reporting on Hezbollah's military
capabilities, following a series of top-tier attacks that targeted
highly-prized Israeli surveillance and radar systems, while introducing new
methods of engagement.

The *Ynet *news website said that Israeli officers serving on the northern
front have issued a warning regarding the fact that Hezbollah can launch an
attack on Israeli soldiers near the Palestinian-Lebanese border 30 seconds
after locating them. The capability has been showcased in several videos
published by the group's Military Media unit, where Hezbollah utilized
either suicide drones, anti-tank guided missiles, or artillery weapons of
various types to target Israeli groupings and individual soldiers.

Moreover, the military correspondent for the Israeli *Army Radio* said that
Hezbollah has carried out a number of "high-quality attacks on more distant
targets, using more advanced military weapons."
Hezbollah's 'amazing capabilities' showcased in first-ever airstrike

On Thursday, Hezbollah launched an airstrike via an Ababil-T drone armed
with two Soviet-era S-5 rockets on a grouping of Israeli soldiers in
Metulla. The attack marked the first-ever aerial strike
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-carries-out-first-arab-airstrike-on--israel--since>
launched on Israeli positions by a Lebanese entity and the first Arab
strike on Israeli positions since 1973.

The Israeli *Army Radio*'s correspondent said that Hezbollah has made it "a
normal" occurrence to launch dozens of rockets and missiles toward the
Meron Air Traffic Control military base, one of the occupation's strategic
military sites, used to both coordinate offensive operations and track and
discover aerial threats.

As for today's attacks, the correspondent pointed to an attack conducted
via several suicide drones that targeted Israeli officers and soldiers'
accommodation camps in Ga'aton. On this particular incident, the Israeli
broadcaster *Channel 14*'s correspondent said that the drone attack placed
hundreds of thousands of Israelis in shelters and bunkers after sirens went
off in Ben Ami, Gesher HaZiv, Evron, Nahariya, Sa'ar, Shlomi, Metzuba,
Betzet, Achziv Miluot Industrial Zone, Liman, Rosh HaNikra, Avdon, Neveh
Ziv, Manot, Ga'aton, Yechiam, Cabri, and Ein Yacov over 14 minutes.

*Channel 14* also reported that Israeli officials have always "estimated
that Hezbollah had amazing capabilities that would surprise everyone."

*Read more: Hezbollah strike on key Israeli spying balloon 'grave' Israeli
failure
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-strike-on-key-israeli-spying-balloon--grave--israe>*
Hezbollah's Tel Shamayim operation dropped the jaws of Israeli officials

The broadcaster also said that Hezbollah's attack on the "highly sensitive" Tel
Shamayim facility
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"dropped the jaws" of Israeli security officers, the military's Northern
Command, and the Israeli political leadership. The site, located 35 km away
from the border, was attacked by two suicide drones, escaping a complex and
layered anti-air defense system before impacting its target.

It is worth noting that the Sky Dew High Availability Aerostat System
(HAAS) in question hosts high-tech surveillance equipment, early detection
systems, and an AESA radar. Hezbollah has slowly dismantled Israeli
surveillance and radar systems across occupied territories, by targeting
spyware installed on frontline sites, attacking the Meron Air Traffic
Control Base, surgically striking radars, downing a surveillance balloon
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-downs-israeli-spy-balloon--kills-and-injures-iof-s>,
and taking down the Sky Dew HAAS.
Hezbollah's ATGMs, drones evade Israeli anti-air, electronic warfare systems

The UK-based *The Independent *noted Hezbollah has adapted its attacks in
recent weeks, managing to reduce the number of fighters lost in
confrontations.

At the same time, Hezbollah has introduced new methods to its attacks,
maintaining a high output of operations, including complex and composite
attacks.

The Israeli news website, *Intelli Times*, said that "Hezbollah succeeds in
utilizing suicide drones and precision television-guided weapons
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while Israeli forces do not have "the ability to intercept them."

According to the website, this occurrence is "astonishing" and raises
questions about Hezbollah's electronic warfare capabilities and its
possible use of the Russian satellite navigation system. The outlet called
the aforementioned operations "worrying", stressing that Hezbollah "will do
anything to disable as many [Israeli] systems as possible," in preparation
for an Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

"[Israel] fired 5 Iron Dome missiles at 3 drones [and perhaps more] and
shot down only one. What do we do when a swarm of 100 or 200 arrives?"

*Intelli Times* claims that Hezbollah is not launching its drones to attack
"Israel" but to survey and scan the preparedness of Israeli anti-air
systems and search for blind spots.

"This is what the public needs to know. This may be a scary outlook but it
will become true," the website added.
Settlers fail to cope with Hezbollah's operations

On his part, the head of the Merom HaGalil settlement council, Amit Sofer,
said in an interview for *Channel 12*, "We stand here in front of residents
and people who do not know to what extent they can remain strong and
steadfast," adding that such feelings are "being crushed day after day."

Sofer noted that every Israeli assassination of a Hezbollah officer has led
to large-scale attacks on Meron.

"After every response, we experience unending tension, and we must
completely and definitely stop," he added.

Sofer called on Israeli authorities to strive for a resolution to the
confrontations, saying that ongoing engagement is an economic threat "which
is increasing month after month." Fed up with the current state of affairs,
Sofer called on the Israeli military to "show [Hezbollah] for once that the
owner of the house has gone crazy."

"The situation here, in the end, is unbearable. People here are collapsing
day after day," Sofer emphasized.

*Read more: War with Hezbollah to be 'Israel's' deadliest: 130-page Israeli
report
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/war-with-hezbollah-to-be-deadliest-for--israel---130-page-re>*
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