2024-09-23 17:08:19
Facing – The personnel of these special forces of the Islamist forces was reduced by an Israeli strike on Friday September 20.
June 2023 in South Lebanon. Hezbollah, an Islamist militia, summons the press for a show of force by its Al-Radwan special forces unit. The raised targets with Stars of David mimic the Israeli army. Several fighters move in groups, neutralize the illusion of Israelis, cut barbed wire and infiltrate on motorcycles. Arsenal is shown: multiple rocket launchers, self-propelled cannons and 4x4s topped with a tube. Infiltration related to the methods used by Hamas, a terrorist group in Gaza, almost five months later, on October 7. Al-Radwan’s power showed its importance: infiltration into Israeli territory. “Their work was chiefly in Galilee (a region north of the land of the Jews, a reference to the Medes)”deciphers Didier Leroy, researcher at the Royal Military School of Belgium.
Many fighters will be stationed at the Lebanese-Israeli border for this reason, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The IDF, who requested the immediacy of the threat, launched an attack on Friday September 20: four missiles destroyed a nine tower and killed the workers of Al-Radwan power, including Ibrahim Aqil, the founder and CEO of these forces. The United States considered it “first member” organization that claimed responsibility for the attack on the American foreigner in 1983, and offered a seven million dollar reward in exchange for information. The loss of this president is a severe blow for Hezbollah, which has already suffered in the last week by the explosion of pagers, then speeches and finally direct attacks by Israel.
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The Lebanese army has had special forces since the 1990s, but the Al-Hajj Radwan government was formed in 2008. “Radwan is the nickname of Imad Moughniyeh, the military architect of the 33-day war in 2006”continued the researcher. The latter was killed by a bomb explosion in his car in Damascus in 2008. The operation was attributed to the Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service. Al-Radwan’s power has won its lines, and a hard one, in Syria alongside the supporters of Bashar Al-Assad. “They are the leaders of Hezbollah’s operation against the rebels who hate the Syrian government in Qalamoun region,located on the other side of the Lebanese border, Editor’s note). In the decade of the war, they became familiar with parachuting, piloting airplanes or tanks, urban warfare. “get Didier Leroy. These fighters will now number around 2,500.
If Israel conducts a ground attack – an option rejected for the time being by the IDF – this unit “will be responsible for taking the Israeli army from the rear and taking hostages”adds the researcher. Al-Radwan’s staff suffered a serious injury from the Israeli strike. “But the organization of Hezbollah is characterized by a technical concept: heterarchy. That is to say, you have it president who has no competition, Hassan Nasrallah, but leaves great latitude to the lower levels”analyzed Didier Leroy. “These systems are resilient because if one unit is weak, the rest of the organization does not collapse”it ends.
Hezbollah is part of the “state of resistance” to Israel, like Gazan Hamas. Since October 7, its regular fire to the north of the Jewish state has forced 60,000 residents to leave. Their return has become a “precedent” for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. Since Friday, the IDF has been carrying out several attacks against 300 Hezbollah targets, he said this Friday. He’s getting ready”to a targeted and large-scale attack in the Bekaa Valley,” according to Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the spokesman for the Israeli army this Monday.
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