How did Hezbollah’s underground missile city change the equation?
Mehr News Agency, International Group: The assassination of martyrs Ismail Haniyeh and Fouad Shekar caused the tension between the axis of resistance and the Zionist regime and increasing the probability of Hezbollah’s retaliatory action against the occupied territories. In the recent days, Yoav Galant and Hertsi Halevi have repeatedly announced the increase in the level of preparedness of the Zionist regime to respond to retaliatory action from the northern front.
At the same time, the mediating channels, acting as Tel Aviv’s “messengers”, tried to prevent the Lebanese resistance from taking any countermeasures against Israel’s terror campaign. In this situation, Lebanon’s Hezbollah for the first time published images of the “Imad-4” missile base. The publication of these images in the official space has had a wide reflection among journalists, analysts and Hebrew media, and they are looking to decipher the recent message of Hezbollah. In the continuation of this report, we will try to address the reaction of Hebrew accounts in cyberspace while referring to the media coverage of the Lebanese resistance.
On Friday, August 16, 2024, the media unit of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement published a rare video of the underground missile city called “Emad-4”, a new trump card against the enemy. Zionist unveiled. According to Al-Mayadeen, in the pictures published by the resistance, Caliber-220, Caliber-303 and other missiles can be seen. The estimated time to launch these missiles and hit Tel Aviv is less than one minute! Before this, the supporters and opponents of the Lebanese resistance did not have a correct understanding of the missile fortifications of the Lebanese resistance, but the published pictures of the underground base of Hezbollah in the underground places caused a change in the calculations of the Israeli enemy.
One of the most important messages of the Resistance’s unveiling of this missile city is the resistance’s high level of secrecy to protect military facilities. Another message of this unveiling is that even if the Lebanese soil is occupied by the enemy’s ground forces, the resistance has the possibility to continue the missile operations against the occupied territories and weaken the combat power of the Israeli army. Transmitting this message to the other side will reduce the level of vulnerability of the depleted Zionist army.
In response to Hezbollah’s unveiling of an underground missile base, the Iranian embassy in Lebanon wrote in a message: “In Persian, it refers to missile facilities located underground and in rocks And we call mountains, rocket cities. In the continuation of this message, it is stated: These missile cities are present all over the geography of dear Iran and create fear in the hearts of Iran’s enemies. If necessary, we can attack the enemy from any point in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The “Intel Times” page affiliated with Israel’s Foreign Service (Mossad) claimed in a tweet: This underground city is located along the Lebanon Valley. This base claims that these military infrastructures were created after the Second Lebanon War and are on the way to transfer weapons from Syria and Iran. “Intel Times” believes that there are similar tunnels in Syria. The special attention of this account to the propaganda video of resistance shows the importance of the existence of such facilities in the midst of the escalation of tension between Lebanon and the Zionist regime.
Itai Blumenthal, a military correspondent of Israel’s Channel 11, analyzed the propaganda video of the Resistance in a tweet. In this tweet, he refers to the words of Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, which were carefully chosen and points out that every point of the occupied territories “from Kiryat Shimoneh to Eilat” is in the crosshairs of the resistance’s pointed missiles. After republishing the recent video of Hezbollah, Roui Kais, a reporter of the Cannes network, claimed that there is a direct connection between the unveiling of this land-based rocket city and the recent speeches of “Syed of the Resistance”.
The Hebrew newspaper “Yediot Aharonot” by publishing a note on Friday tried to make a connection between the Doha negotiations and Hezbollah’s unveiling of the missile city and the actions of the resistance. evaluate in order to send a message to the negotiation parties in Doha. Itamar Eichenar described the video published by Hezbollah as “horrifying” and expressed his surprise at the existence of communication routes for the entry of all kinds of cars and motorcycles into the secret resistance base.
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In the field of defense, the most important message of Lebanon’s Hezbollah’s unveiling of a rocket city under the mountains of Jebel Al-Amil can be seen as sending a signal to the enemy that there is a possibility of repeating the Gaza tragedy in Lebanon. does not have This Arab country has a wide geographical area, where any point can have a base for the resistance forces to hide and attack the Zionist regime’s hegemony.
The resistance’s extensive missile attacks in the high mountains of Lebanon will weaken the enemy’s defense position and Hezbollah’s missile units will be in a position to adjust their firepower against strategic targets in occupied Palestine. became. The developments of the coming days will show how much the commanders of the Israeli army understood the power of Hezbollah. In the event of a large-scale or limited war in the northern front, the Lebanese resistance has the ability to use underground bases located in mountainous areas to inflict serious blows on the combat-armored units of the Israeli army and to destroy the “Iron Dome” defense system with rockets.
Another target of Hezbollah’s recent action can be the Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha. The Lebanese resistance sent a message to Tel Aviv by publishing pictures of the “Emad-4” missile city that if Netanyahu’s new conditions are still an obstacle to a ceasefire in Gaza, the resistance will not hesitate to target strategic targets deep in occupied Palestine. In other words, Hezbollah is trying to use the means at its disposal to push Tel Aviv towards the end of the war in Gaza.
Mohammed Bayat; Expert on West Asian issues
