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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israeli officials' jaws drop over Hezbollah's complex operations</h1>
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media outlets shed light on a series of Hezbollah attacks that have
cast a dark shadow over "Israel's" military capabilities. </p><img src="cid:ii_lwat4t7y0" alt="46078403-ebe4-4bde-8e58-8668d6ab7dbd.jpg" width="438" height="292"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in Petah Tikva, occupied Palestine, on March 7, 2020. <em>(AP)</em>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>The <em>Ynet </em>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. </p>
<p>Moreover, the military correspondent for the Israeli <em>Army Radio</em>
said that Hezbollah has carried out a number of "high-quality attacks
on more distant targets, using more advanced military weapons."</p>
<h2>Hezbollah's 'amazing capabilities' showcased in first-ever airstrike</h2>
<p>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 <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-carries-out-first-arab-airstrike-on--israel--since">first-ever aerial strike</a> launched on Israeli positions by a Lebanese entity and the first Arab strike on Israeli positions since 1973. </p>
<p>The Israeli <em>Army Radio</em>'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. </p>
<p>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 <em>Channel 14</em>'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. </p>
<p><em>Channel 14</em> also reported that Israeli officials have always
"estimated that Hezbollah had amazing capabilities that would surprise
everyone."</p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-strike-on-key-israeli-spying-balloon--grave--israe">Hezbollah strike on key Israeli spying balloon 'grave' Israeli failure</a></strong></p>
<h2>Hezbollah's Tel Shamayim operation dropped the jaws of Israeli officials</h2>
<p>The broadcaster also said that Hezbollah's attack on the "highly sensitive" <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-attacks-israeli-nbase-west-of-tabarayya--35-km-fro">Tel Shamayim facility</a>
"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.</p>
<p>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, <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-downs-israeli-spy-balloon--kills-and-injures-iof-s">downing a surveillance balloon</a>, and taking down the Sky Dew HAAS.</p>
<h2>Hezbollah's ATGMs, drones evade Israeli anti-air, electronic warfare systems</h2>
<p>The UK-based <em>The Independent </em>noted Hezbollah has adapted its attacks in recent weeks, managing to reduce the number of fighters lost in confrontations.</p>
<p>At the same time, Hezbollah has introduced new methods to its
attacks, maintaining a high output of operations, including complex and
composite attacks. </p>
<p>The Israeli news website, <em>Intelli Times</em>, said that "Hezbollah succeeds in utilizing suicide drones and <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/five-israeli-soldiers-injured-by-hezbollah-atgm-strike-in--a">precision television-guided weapons</a>," while Israeli forces do not have "the ability to intercept them."</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>"[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?"</p>
<p><em>Intelli Times</em> 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. </p>
<p>"This is what the public needs to know. This may be a scary outlook but it will become true," the website added.</p>
<h2>Settlers fail to cope with Hezbollah's operations</h2>
<p>On his part, the head of the Merom HaGalil settlement council, Amit Sofer, said in an interview for <em>Channel 12</em>,
"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."</p>
<p>Sofer noted that every Israeli assassination of a Hezbollah officer has led to large-scale attacks on Meron. </p>
<p>"After every response, we experience unending tension, and we must completely and definitely stop," he added. </p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>"The situation here, in the end, is unbearable. People here are collapsing day after day," Sofer emphasized. </p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/war-with-hezbollah-to-be-deadliest-for--israel---130-page-re">War with Hezbollah to be 'Israel's' deadliest: 130-page Israeli report</a></strong></p></div></div></div>
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