Hezbollah’s winning card in the ground war; Israel drowning in the “Northern Swamp”

According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, citing Al Jazeera, Lebanon’s Hezbollah published pictures of its underground tunnel cities on August 16, before the ground operation of the Zionist regime in the south of the country. The borders of the Zionist regime were located.

One ​​of these infrastructures was the location known as Emad 4, which is one of the strong facilities built underground and can accommodate the presence and movement of large trucks and four-wheel drive vehicles. It has a cylinder and a motorcycle, and ballistic missile launch platforms are located in it.

The media of the Zionist regime evaluated these tunnels very differently from the tunnels used during the July 2006 war, when Israel suffered a heavy defeat in that war.

The result obtained in the investigation of the failure of the July war was that Hezbollah uses the tunnels as its trump card and these tunnels create the strength of the party. God is against Israel’s technological superiority. In this way, the war of tunnels in the current period has been faced with double importance.

Tunnel tactics and different experiences

The use of tunnels is not a new issue, but an old military tactic, and the Assyrians were the first to use them to attack fortified cities more than 4,000 years ago. They used a tunnel.

The use of tunnels in asymmetric warfare is commonplace, and the current, which has less technological and military power, uses tunnels as a tactical tool for more maneuver and surprise. The enemy gains extensive damage and the balance of power is adjusted.

The structure of Hezbollah tunnels

Eyal Zionist author Weisman writes in a book that when Israel has the absolute power of the airspace for itself maintains and counts on its technical and technological superiority, this issue makes the resistance move towards underground fighting techniques, so that it can turn the underground into the main tool against the enemy’s air superiority, and this happened in Gaza and southern Lebanon is.

The information of the Zionist regime regarding the Hezbollah tunnels is very limited, this little information shows that the depth of these tunnels sometimes exceeds 40 to 60 meters underground and the length of some It reaches 45 km from them.

Zionist Studies Center Alma in a report published in 2021, writes that Hezbollah Lebanon spent the years after the 2006 war preparing a comprehensive defense plan against the future attack of Israel, and the tunnels were one of the important origins of this plan. The report adds that Hezbollah has a complex network of tunnels that is hundreds of kilometers long and has crossed Israel’s northern borders, and some of them probably reach Syria.

Some of these reports tell about Hezbollah’s underground cities and their missile cities. These tunnels have command and management centers, field hospitals, ammunition and weapons warehouses, and missile launch platforms, and their openings are covered in such a way that it is difficult to identify them.

The Alma center report adds that the mentioned tunnels are 3 important operational centers, i.e. Hezbollah’s main headquarters in Dahiya connects Beirut and their defensive positions in southern Lebanon and their logistics centers in the Bekaa region.

The effect of Hezbollah tunnels on the war process

Compared to the existing tunnels in Gaza; The geography of southern Lebanon gives a positive feature to the digging of tunnels by Hezbollah in Lebanon, in addition to the fact that the French newspaper Liberation considers the existing tunnels in Gaza much less than Hezbollah.

Weizman writes in his book that a simple digger can dig 12 meters of tunnel in Gaza in a day with simple tools, but this work in Lebanon due to the hardness and rock It takes several months to lay the ground, however Hezbollah’s tunnels have more resistance and strength against destruction.

In this book, it is stated that the Hezbollah tunnels have made Israel’s spending of more than 3 billion dollars to build barriers and border walls useless, because it is possible to penetrate all of them. It exists underground, which is why Hezbollah’s tunnel advantage in the July 2006 war was greater than Tel Aviv’s air superiority.

Tunnels make Hezbollah softer and more maneuverable and carry out more ambushes and various ambushes for the elements of the Israeli army and their armored vehicles, which in the past and current war with the resistance Hezbollah has stubbornly caused many casualties and damages .

Tunnels at that time made it possible for Hezbollah to hide more than 1,500 missile launch pads, in addition to storing equipment and water and Sufficient food for itself can continue its struggle for many weeks without logistical support.

The role of tunnels in current conflicts

During the current war, the Zionist regime has tried to make its operational priority the discovery and destruction of Hezbollah’s tunnels in Lebanon, so that it may be able to push Hezbollah elements back. to force a withdrawal to the north side of the Litani River, but it seems that the Zionist army does not have the power to do such a thing. Andreas Craig, professor of defense studies at the Royal College of London, believes that destroying the infrastructure of Hezbollah’s tunnels is not as simple as it is thought; Even if the army can identify some of these tunnels, it does not mean that the others will be discovered; Because none of the tunnels are similar in nature and volume, and most of the tunnels continue their mission despite the continued air attacks.

Craig considered Hezbollah tunnels to have three types of functions and said that some tunnels are superficial and they are used to transport people and various materials and it is possible to destroy them with missile attacks, some others are deeper tunnels that are used to store weapons, and the third part are tunnels deeper than 60 meters, except in exceptional cases, their destruction power does not exist Among these measures was the attack on the Lebanese Hezbollah command center on September 23, which led to the martyrdom of Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah.

Craig considers Hezbollah’s tunnels as one of the party’s strengths and at the same time believes This is not the only strength of Hezbollah. He adds that this party is no longer a small armed group, but more like a military army that has more than 100,000 fighters and uses advanced missile and drone technology. It has more than 150 thousand vehicles.

In such a situation, there is a possibility that the ground operations of the Zionist regime in Lebanon are nearing the end, because Tel Aviv wants to stop them before increasing its casualties and damages. The northern swamp sinks, to end its operations.