An offensive of attrition for Israel? After the death of its leader, “Hezbollah is probably preparing for a ground war”
“Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader who Israel assassinated two weeks ago, was enormously popular because he was not seen as corrupt; his people admired and trusted him. You can’t say that about any other Arab leader, because there is no other Arab leader who has anything close to his connection to his own base.” The person who remembers is Ussama Makdisi, an author of dual Palestinian and North American nationality, an expert in Arabic studies and professor of history and director of the University of California at Berkeley. It would only be natural for elements of the Lebanese militia to be licking their wounds after the impact of the death of historic leaderat the head of Hezbollah since 1992.
But in war there is no time for prolonged lamentations and mourning and, according to the agency Reutersthe armed wing of the “Party of God” quickly sought to restore a plan to confront Israel. Hezbollah’s calculations now include a possible long war of attrition in southern Lebanon. The command was halted for the first few days after Nasrallah’s assassination on September 27, until Shiite militants established a new “operations room” 72 hours later. Thus, there is already a new command managing the launch of rockets and land conflict.
With three weeks of hard blows, and mainly with the assassination of its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, known by locals as “larger than life”, the Israeli authorities gained space and arguments to argue that the Islamist group’s abilities were severely compromised. But the effect of resistance remains.
