Yesterday (18.09.2024), a little after noon — the day after the „pager uprising“ — hundreds of explosions were again heard all over Lebanon. Once again, they sounded in the most diverse and unexpected places — apartments, buildings, cars, stores. Many videos of the explosions have spilled out onto social media. This time radios, other types of radio communications, cell phones, as well as other electronic devices — laptops and much more exploded. Solar panels exploded in some buildings.
To say that Hizbullah was panicked is probably an understatement. But an even greater panic has now gripped ordinary Lebanese citizens, who are avoiding anyone they might suspect of having ties to the terrorist group.
After all, who knows what else these people who defied the Jewish people might blow up — a refrigerator, an iron, a toilet bowl?
It is reported that all Hizbullah terrorists have been ordered to stay away from any electronic devices! Just wondering how they were informed of this? With carrier pigeons? Similar orders — to stay away from phones of any kind — are being circulated to terrorists operating for the Iranian regime in Syria as well!
Yesterday’s explosions, it must be said, were more powerful, as the devices that „decided to rebel“ against the Hizbullah terrorists yesterday were larger and apparently contained more explosives than the pagers.
Yesterday, Hizbullah acknowledged half a dozen dead and about half a thousand wounded. However, it is likely that the numbers killed and wounded are far more significant. It is possible that it is not only a matter of deliberate concealment of the true scale of the strike, but also the fact that Hizbullah is really unable to collect all the information about the dead and wounded. Communication is not working very well... Who knows how many terrorists exploded in Hizbullah’s underground bunkers and tunnels?
Lebanon’s hospitals are overflowing with wounded. About a hundred wounded terrorists have been sent to Iran for treatment. Egypt, Jordan and Iraq have already volunteered to help Lebanon. Note, we’re talking about helping terrorists who have suffered for trying to harm Israelis! These are our neighbors. This is the price of the peace treaties signed with Jordan and Egypt...
Note that the wounded, however cynical it may sound, are a much bigger problem for a terrorist organization than the dead. You can’t just take them, bury them, and forget about them....
And all this, we note, is happening without any risk to our fighters, without the use of tanks, airplanes, bombs and the very munitions that now the hypocritical Europeans refuse to sell to Israel.
To summarize. The blow dealt to Hizbullah yesterday was in many ways even more serious than the previous blow dealt to it the day before yesterday:
1. It is now obvious to Hizbullah’s ringleaders that for Israeli intelligence, they are an open book. Barely every one of their electronic devices is now under suspicion. Until yesterday afternoon, they could console themselves by saying that the problem was only with special pagers. But now that even solar panels, computers, cell phones and other household and office equipment have „rebelled against them“ it is clear to them that the depth of penetration of the Israelis into the very depths of the organization is completely different, which is almost impossible to imagine, and even more impossible to assess.
2. Pagers contained only a small amount of explosives, radios, cell phones, computers, etc. contained much more. This is evident from the severity of the injuries and the scale of the explosions, as well as the numerous fires that broke out simultaneously in all corners of Lebanon. By the way, what about the Israeli Arab and Bedouin villages? In towns with so-called „mixed populations“? Have there been no arrivals of Israelis with suddenly severed limbs and blown out eyes in the last two days? I wonder.
3. The day before yesterday, Hizbullah apparently thought they had survived the attack and now it was their turn to respond. But then they were hit by a second and third (in the evening) wave of explosions. Now they obviously don’t really understand what else could happen to them. Where else is going to explode? Where else have the explosives been placed? How do they escape and protect themselves from all of this? Can they trust the remaining warning and communication systems? Lighting systems? Building floors and ceilings? And the furniture?
For now, Hizbullah is taking blow after blow, unable to rebuild itself, reorganize, defend itself effectively, much less attack.
4. Hizbullah’s ringleaders have reportedly cleverly decided, for the time being, to abandon virtually all of their communications systems based on pagers, radios, cell phones, computers, etc. All of these have now been put aside. It is clear even to a dilettante that this is a colossal blow to the organization of control and management.
It is clear that from a military point of view, the best time for the practical elimination of Hizbullah, for a large-scale attack with all its might, is now, when the terrorist group is weak, confused, licking its wounds and, in fact, almost helpless. Lebanon’s hospitals are overwhelmed and non-functional, hundreds of field commanders have been killed or wounded, thousands of terrorists have been neutralized, all communications networks have been discarded for fear of sabotage or eavesdropping and tracking, and morale has hit rock bottom.
How is Israel taking advantage of this situation? Will it? Let us pray that it does. We will praise the Name of G-d and thank Him for His help and the miracles He gives us. Our tradition enjoins us to tell and praise the miracles that G-d performs for us. This is what we do!