Hezbollah has opened a front on the border between Lebanon and Israel since the day after the outbreak of the war in Gaza on October 7th last year, and has been documenting its operations against Israeli military targets.
Hezbollah did not declare full involvement in the battle but used some of its quality rockets such as “Volcano” and “Falak”. The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, considers these operations as a military pressure on Israel, occupying a third of its forces.
During the first three months of this confrontation, Hezbollah claims to have carried out nearly 700 strikes against Israeli targets, including 48 sites and Israeli military points and targeting 17 settlements along the 140-kilometer border from Ras Naqoura in the west to the occupied Syrian Golan Heights in the east.
The first 100 days of this confrontation witnessed more than two thousand Israelis wounded by Hezbollah strikes, while Israel did not announce a clear number of casualties among its soldiers.
A Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera, “We monitor communications from inside the targeted Israeli military sites requesting medical assistance, and then we monitor movements to evacuate the wounded from these sites.”
According to a report by Shayeb Al-Awsat, the Israeli silence about the losses has reasons related to a different approach from the Gaza front. “Israel’s announcement of losses at the northern front may raise voices calling for a halt to the war on both fronts, or raise voices towards pushing the Lebanon front more widely to remove the threat of Hezbollah.”
He added that the second option is increasingly suggesting to Israeli political and military leaders. “But Tel Aviv does not want to wage two wars at the same level at once, knowing that Hezbollah’s capabilities exceed those of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) significantly,” according to the report.
The spokesman for the Israeli army, Daniel Hagee, said last Saturday that his forces had attacked more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria and 3,400 targets in Lebanon since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip about 4 months ago.
Hagee pointed to the destruction of 150 cells belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the killing of 200 people in these strikes, according to him, while Hezbollah mourned two of its fighters from the town of Taybeh on Sunday, saying that they “rose on the road to Jerusalem,” thus raising the party’s death toll to 179.
