Israel’s Focus on Hezbollah Could Change Mideast Power Dynamics

While the world was mesmerized by Israel’s ingenious and audacious penetration of the communications systems of Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah, exploding thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies, killing and injuring many terrorists, a significant event happened just hours before.

Israel’s cabinet officially added a third goal to its war efforts — the safe return of 60,000 Israeli citizens who were evacuated from their homes in Israel’s north to protect them from the unprovoked and almost daily aerial attacks initiated by Hezbollah beginning the day after the October 7 Palestinian massacre of Israelis in the south.

Over the last 11 months, the terror group has fired 8,500 rockets on northern Israel in a war of attrition designed to erode Israel’s resources and make Israeli territory uninhabitable. Civilians and soldiers have been hit by Hezbollah’s drones and rockets, while entire cities in northern Israel have been abandoned, farmland left uncultivated and children displaced from their schools.

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