How does Israel benefit from its targets?


Israel carried out an air strike targeting Beirut’s southern suburbs during the hours of yesterday night, and assassinated a Hezbollah leaders. This attack was not the first of its kind. Rather, it comes within a series of operations through which Israel seeks to achieve long -term strategic goals, using the air superiority that it obtained due to the absence of direct deterrence.









Israel is seeking at this stage to achieve gains that could not be achieved except during wars, but it has become in the ladder periods an opportunity to impose new facts on the ground. The freedom of the air work that Tel Aviv has in the sky of Lebanon, which allowed her to carry out complex and accurate operations without a heavy cost, which puts the party in front of a major challenge in how to deal with this persistence.

Besides, Israel is seeking to pressure Hezbollah to push it towards making real concessions that affect the balance of the conflict. These strikes are not just military operations, but rather political and security messages that the continuation of cohesion and adherence to its positions may impose a new reality on the party and its incubator environment. Tel Aviv is betting that the continued targeting of its leaders and military structure will lead to a change in its strategic accounts, or at least to restrict its options.

Another goal that Israel seeks through these repeated raids, which is to cause a rift within the party’s environment, and pushed it to reconsider its position on it. Tel Aviv is counting on the popular pressure factor resulting from the repetition of human and material strikes and losses, in the hope that this will lead to the vibration of the rule on which the party is based. The bet here is not only on military pressure, but also to form social pressure that may be reflected in one way or another on the political scene in Lebanon.

Israel is also working to prevent the restoration of the party’s military capabilities, whether in terms of rebuilding the affected infrastructure or bringing in specific weapons that may restore balance. The structure of vital and influential goals is part of a long -term depletion strategy, aimed at keeping the party in a permanent defensive state, and preventing it from restoring its military well -being.

All of these factors combined may open the door to more complicated scenarios, not only in terms of confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah, but also at the level of the Lebanese interior. The Israeli persistence in targeting may push the situation to a critical point, and perhaps to an internal clash that occupies the party from its primary struggle with Israel, which Tel Aviv seeks to achieve as part of its long -term strategy.


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