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Titolo: Hezbollah gears up for new war

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Hezbollah gears up for new war
Fighters rearm and reinforce positions in valleys amid fears that Israel 
is about to launch attack on Islamic group
Hezbollah is rapidly rearming in preparation for a new conflict with 
Israel, fearing that Benjamin Netanyahu's government will attack Lebanon 
again prior to any assault on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Last week, Israeli commandos seized a ship in the Mediterranean loaded 
with almost 400 tonnes of rockets and small arms – which Israel claimed 
was being sent from Iran to its Hezbollah allies. In dramatic further 
evidence of growing tensions, the Observer has learned that Hezbollah 
fighters have been busy reinforcing fixed defence positions north of the 
Litani river.
Having lost many of its bunkers in the south, Hezbollah is preparing a 
new strategy to defend villages there.
Although the organisation denied last week that the weapons were intended 
for its use, senior commanders have done little to disguise the scale of 
rearmament. "Sure, we are rearming, we have even said that we have far 
more rockets and missiles than we did in 2006," said a Hezbollah 
commander, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel began after an ill-advised 
operation by to kidnap two Israeli soldiers, prompting a massive Israeli 
response that lasted 34 days and killed more than 1,000 people.
"We had to blow up or leave some of our bunkers and fighting positions, 
but we still have plenty of capabilities in the south. We expect the 
Israelis to come soon, if not this winter, then they will wait until 
spring, when the ground isn't too soft for their tanks."
It was expected that the ceasefire would neutralise Hezbollah military 
efforts along the Lebanon-Israel border, as a newly bolstered United 
Nations peacekeeping force and the Lebanese army took up positions. 
Instead, based on dozens of interviews and multiple trips into the 
country's south, it is clear that Hezbollah believes it would face 
different challenges.
It has been forced to abandon the line of deeply entrenched static 
positions on the border with Israel and withdraw most of its men and 
weaponry to clusters of Shia villages.
"It's clear that Hezbollah no longer controls the border, due to the 
presence of Unifil [United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon] troops," 
said Andrew Exum, a military expert on Hezbollah at the Centre for New 
American Security. "They appear to be hardening the villages for this 
next round of fighting, while pushing their fixed positions north away 
from Unifil to protect the approaches to Beirut and the Bekaa Valley."
Israel and the United States have long assumed that any military action 
against Iran's nuclear programme would draw a muscular response from its 
close allies in Hezbollah. According to Israeli military and intelligence 
analysts, any move against Iran would require a move first against 
Hezbollah's capability to disrupt life in northern Israel with its 
rockets.
Tel Aviv seems unlikely to commit the same mistakes it did in 2006, when 
the plan was for air strikes to disrupt and confuse Hezbollah's military 
command, while minimising the use of ground troops. Israeli military 
sources have said that they are preparing for a potential new conflict.
Cruising through the serene green wadis that connect south Lebanon to the 
Litani river to the north, the commander explains what happened at the 
end of the last war. "We knocked out three of their tanks on the first 
day, as they tried to enter," he explained at a turn-off by the village 
of al-Qantara. "But after they entered the wadi, we knew they were going 
for the river and had to be stopped. So we called out to all the special 
forces anti-tank teams in the area. And they all swarmed the wadi. Boys 
would set up and wait for the tanks, fire off their rounds and then pull 
back. Then they would pull back a kilometre or so down the wadi and wait 
for them again."
According to Israeli military reports, after the first and last tanks 
were hit by rocket fire or mines, killing the company commander, the 24 
tanks were essentially trapped inside a valley, surrounded on all sides 
and pinned down by mortars, rockets and mines. Eleven tanks were 
destroyed and the rest partially damaged and Israel lost at least 12 
soldiers.
As unlikely as the Israelis might be to repeat these mistakes, they must 
figure out how to get their heavy armour past the Hezbollah teams that 
still lurk in the hills and valleys in the next round of fighting, if and 
when it comes.
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 Hezbollah gears up for new war
il chiagnefottismo sionista ormai non frega più nessuno. Siete voi che
volete la guerra entro dicembre, l'hanno dichiarato chiaro e tondo i
generali

 il chiagnefottismo sionista ormai non frega più nessuno. 
Uhm..sei cosi littorio nelle tue affermazioni che da Nicola Bombacci mi 
sa che ti promuovo Primo Arcovazzi
MMAX


generali
Ok, ma le false flag si devono pur creare, che cazzo li pagano a fare
i megafoni allora?

 sa che ti promuovo Primo Arcovazzi
meglio...me la cavo con un linciaggio anzichè con l'impiccagione.


Si vis pacem para bellum.
E' la massima latina più in voga in Medio Oriente.
Mg

 Am.
#_In MO resta monca!