Calculations of the war on the northern front…Israel confronts Hezbollah’s arsenal Knowledge

After the 14th day of the unprecedented Israeli military campaign on the Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Yoav Galant moved to the northern front to assess its field situation. He appeared among the leaders of the 91st Division in the Burnett Barracks near the border with Lebanon, and addressed its regular and reserve officers, who were summoned due to the general mobilization that followed the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation. He addressed them in the presence of the division commander, Lieutenant Colonel Shay Claver, saying, “Hezbollah has decided to participate in the fighting. “We are charging a heavy price for him.” He said in a tone that mixed mobilizational rhetoric with the language of optimism, “We are in a war and we have no choice. We will work everywhere that requires us to do so, and we will win.”

On the same day, Saturday, October 22, during a memorial celebration in Beirut for Ali Shuqair, one of the Hezbollah fighters who fell during one of the recent confrontations with Israel, Sheikh Naim Qassem, the party’s Deputy Secretary-General – the highest-ranking party official to speak since the war began – stood up to address An audience of supporters using the language of numbers and recording positions together. He said that 3 (Israeli military) divisions are present in southern Lebanon opposite Hezbollah, and 5 divisions are present opposite Gaza, and if Hezbollah had not been part of this confrontation, all of these divisions would have been there. He also said, “Let it be clear that as events unfold and something arises that calls for our greater intervention, we will do so.”