🇮🇷 🇮🇱 The Next Israel-Hezbollah War Could Be a Far Greater Catastrophe Than Gaza

🔶️ "It's very hard to see how this war can be won quickly, or at all," Eran Etzion, who served as deputy head of Israel's National Security Council during the last major Israel-Lebanon War in 2006 and later as head of policy planning at the Israeli Foreign Ministry under Netanyahu, told Newsweek.

🔶️ "From my perspective, I think it's going to be a war that Israel will lose within the first 24 hours," he added, "simply because of the pictures we will see of mass destruction in very sensitive areas within Israel on a scale we've never seen before."

🔶️ Israel is still reeling from the unprecedented attack led by the Palestinian Hamas movement that took the nation by surprise eight months ago, sparking what has become the longest and deadliest war in Gaza. And yet, attention is increasingly being drawn to the escalating battle in the north between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hezbollah, which has dramatically improved its arsenal since the last full-scale war fought 18 years ago.

🔶️ Amid that monthlong war, which erupted after a deadly cross-border raid conducted by the Lebanese movement, the group was estimated to have around 10,000 rockets and other forms of weaponry. As of the onset of the present hostilities that accompanied the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, IDF officials have told Newsweek the group is believed to possess some 200,000 rockets, as well as mortars, drones, surface-to-air missiles, anti-tank missiles, precision-guided munitions and other armaments.

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