Has Israel considered a loss to Hezbollah?
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"Increasingly sophisticated Hezbollah operations against qualitative Israeli targets have Tel Aviv flapping about a ‘war on Lebanon.’ But whichever way one examines the equation – manpower, capabilities, defenses, alliances – the Israeli state seems ill-prepared for this fight."
"As the war in Gaza lags on, cross-border exchanges on the Lebanese–Israeli front have intensified. Fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli military has taken a heavy toll on both sides. The Lebanese resistance movement has lost over 300 fighters, with Israeli shelling resulting in the displacement of tens of thousands of Lebanese residents of the country’s southern villages.
Israel has not fared much better, with at least sixty thousand northern settlers forced to flee their homes. While the occupation army has confirmed the death of around a dozen of its soldiers in the exchanges with Hezbollah, the real number is estimated to be much higher."
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