New secrets about Hezbollah’s weapons…an Israeli study reveals them

The Israeli newspaper Maariv published a new report in which it talked about a new study that talks about the arsenal of weapons that Hezbollah possessed in southern Lebanon, especially those that were seized by the Israeli army during the ground attack on Lebanon starting last October.

The report he translated says: Lebanon24 A first study of combat data in Lebanon shows the enormous scope of the Hezbollah force that Iran has built up for years, which saw Hezbollah as a major military force that must fight against Israel on the northern front with Israel.

The report indicates that the study conducted by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel analyzes the volume of weapons accumulated by Hezbollah and finds that about 70% of the combat and military means that reached Hezbollah were of Russian origin. It added: During the ground maneuver of the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, 85,000 Hezbollah weapons were confiscated, including about 6,840 RPGs and rocket launchers, in addition to anti-tank missiles and about 2,250 shells and surface-to-air missiles, about 2,700 weapons, and 60 anti-aircraft missiles.

The report quotes sources in the Israeli army as saying that this quantity of weapons is sufficient to arm more than one military division, while the study says that the vast majority of weapons were manufactured in Iran and Russia and were smuggled to Hezbollah via direct flights from Iran or in convoys passing through the territories. Syrian.

Likewise, the study says that Hezbollah also relied on its weapons production, explaining that the diversity of the weapons used by the party reflects the advanced military capabilities that the organization equipped itself in the years between the Lebanon-Israel war in 2006 and the outbreak of the last war in October 2023, and added: Likewise, These weapons reveal Hezbollah’s options for action against Israel, both near the border and in its ability to threaten targets deep within Israel.

According to the report, despite the massive damage inflicted by the Israeli army to Hezbollah’s means of warfare during the current conflict, estimates indicate that the organization has capabilities and knowledge that allow it to continue to pose a threat if all of its means of warfare are not dismantled throughout Lebanon.

Also, the new study addresses Hezbollah’s publications during the war about the scope of the party’s attacks against Israel and the Israeli army, and says: The party carried out 3,194 attacks, including 1,040 attacks against military sites and 964 attacks against military sites, bases, equipment, and military airports. The party also carried out 570 other attacks on civilian settlements, and it is said that 760 anti-tank missile launches, 589 artillery shell launches, 184 unspecified guided missile launches, in addition to 221 drone launches, and 97 shooting incidents by snipers and machine guns were reported. And others.

In its context, the study presented data on the scope of the shooting and attacks carried out by Hezbollah during the Israeli army’s maneuver in Lebanon since the start of the war until the ceasefire entered into force on November 27, and adds: According to the graph, the organization carried out 1,666 attacks during the period, at a rate of 23 attacks daily, where among the targets were 211 Israeli army bases, 111 camps, 420 sites, and 147 border sites between Israel Lebanon, 540 settlements, 17 military factories and 10 airports.

Source:
Translation of Lebanon 24