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This is a very effective operation if you want to restore deterrence in the region. Israel’s major strategic problem in the region that it has lost its deterrent force, deterring its enemies from attacking it. Hamas attacked on October 7. Hezbollah attacked Israel on October 8. Iran attacked Israel in April. All of these parties, together with the Houthis, are not deterred."
Beyond shock and humiliation, the immediate impact on Hezbollah is not yet clear, neither are the Iranian terror proxy’s intentions to retaliate. While the pager attack was a brilliant tactical success unlike anything previously accomplished against a terror organization during combat, the strategic benefits of this tremendous move are limited, if not supplemented with swift Israeli action against Hezbollah as it reels from the shock of impact."
Jonathan Conricus, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital By these kinds of operations Israel is really showing those different forces what it can do. And it has done also in its response to the Iranian aerial assault back in April. It's showing them it can operate in ways and means that they did not anticipate. Whether or not it is effective in the long run, we need to see."
The Israeli military expert added Israel has been preparing for the war in the north with Hezbollah since 2007. These have been 17 years of Israeli preparations… Israel has not been preparing for an invasion of Hamas."
Hezbollah wants to avoid an all-out war. It still wants to avoid one. But given the scale, the impact on families, on civilians, there will be pressure for a stronger response,
said Mohanad Hage Ali of the Carnegie Middle East Center This probably puts Israel in a position that the U.S. doesn’t want them to be, in terms of militarizing and potentially escalating the conflict in Lebanon,
Either some Hezbollah members got suspicious of the devices, pushing Israel to consider using it now or losing this asset, or this was meant as a prelude to an offensive that is still to come,
Michael Horowitz, the head of intelligence at Le Beck International, a security and risk management consultancy, told NBC News Those devices, which may have been used for emergency communication, particularly in case of full-scale war with Israel, would also have been distributed among key commanders from the low-ranking field officer to the higher echelon of the group,
As a security breach, it can’t get much worse,
You don’t take unnecessary risks when taken off guard, as Hezbollah just did,
This is what I think was the intended nature of the attack, when it was initially planned, though it may not have been used as such,
The region itself is in an explosive situation,
I can only condemn these attacks that endanger the security and stability of Lebanon, and increase the risk of escalation in the region,
the European Union’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said The incident once again showed that western nations and Americans fully support crime, killings and blind assassinations by the Zionist regime,
a statement on his website read What happened yesterday will increase our determination and resolve
The jury is still out on what they really want, but I think the prospect that Israel wants escalation is higher now than it was earlier,
They tried to keep it tight and Israel knows this,
First of all, you just can’t get that many lithium batteries to explode at once just by sending some sort of impetus to a pager,
Whenever you want to go into war with someone else who has such advances in technology and capabilities in tampering and hacking into supply chains and stuff like that, that’s where you have disequilibrium,
Hadi El Khoury, a Paris-based cybersecurity expert, told Al Jazeera We can harm you more than this.”
Defence analyst Hamze Attar said this