Resistance prevails: Hezbollah’s operations force Netanyahu to surrender in defeat

By Wesam Bahrani 

The Israeli premier, quite reluctantly, appeared on air late on Tuesday to announce a ceasefire in Lebanon after his forces failed to occupy even a single village in the Arab country despite unbridled aggression for months.

It took less than two months of the most sophisticated operations by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah to force Benjamin Netanyahu and other war criminals to beg for a ceasefire.

Contrary to the lies peddled by the embattled Israeli occupation premier who has been under tremendous pressure to end the failed military adventure in both Gaza and Lebanon and against whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) has now issued arrest warrants, this is no victory for the Zionists.

As Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said earlier this week, bombing homes and hospitals and killing innocents is no victory. It is a disgraceful defeat for the occupation.

Since October 8 last year, and particularly over the past two months, Hezbollah's missiles and drones have bypassed all Israeli radar systems daily striking deep inside the occupied territories.

On October 29, a drone targeted the private residence of Netanyahu in the town of Caesarea, which shook the occupation and its military intelligence apparatus.

On Tuesday, Hezbollah’s operations room announced that one of the military targets struck on November 18, 2024, in Tel Aviv was the residence of Israeli Air Force Commander, Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar.

The attack was carried out using a squadron of advanced attack drones, achieving its objectives with precision. This incident has been subjected to strict censorship by the Israeli military, the Hezbollah operations room stated.

On Monday, Hezbollah carried out record 51 operations against the Zionist entity, targeting military sites in Tel Aviv, Haifa and other parts of the occupied territories with surgical precision.

So, the regime realized that continuing the war on Lebanon would have turned Haifa into the northern settlement of Kiryat Shmona (or whatever is left of Kiryat Shmona).

The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon has been bombing Haifa to the extent that the industrial hub of the Zionist occupation went into the dark, which even the Israeli media outlets admitted.

Hezbollah's strategy to defend its country's sovereignty and end Zionist airstrikes against the civilian population has always been to militarily force the regime to a ceasefire.

As the Lebanese resistance began to fire missiles 150 kilometers deep inside occupied Palestine, targeting cities like Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat), the ripple effects were being strongly felt back in Washington DC.

Numerous successful bombing campaigns on the commercial hub of Tel Aviv in response to Zionist airstrikes on Beirut weren’t something Netanyahu and his criminal associates had anticipated.

The damage Hezbollah has managed to inflict in occupied cities across the Zionist occupation of Palestine is what forced Netanyahu to wave the white flag and surrender to the Lebanese resistance.

This 60-day truce, if it holds, is based on UN Security-Council Resolution 1701 passed after the 2006 war on Lebanon that called on Hezbollah to move heavy weapons behind the Litani River.

The irony is Hezbollah doesn't have any heavy weapons between the Litani River and the Lebanese border. All its missiles, rockets and drones have been launched from behind the Litani.

Hezbollah fighters won't desert the Lebanese border towns and villages. This is their home, their land and it is why 250,000 Israeli settlers won't be returning to the north any time soon.

Resolution 1701 also calls on the Zionist regime to withdraw from Lebanese territory, which it has failed to do. The village of Ghajar, for instance, or the Shebaa farms, is still occupied by the regime.

In essence, Netanyahu is clinging at straws. He knows the Lebanese army, which will try to bring security for the regime again, is more of a police force than a national army and won't protect settlers from Hezbollah.

It has been a truly embarrassing defeat for the regime that committed genocide in Gaza, killing more than 44,000 Palestinians, 70 percent of them children and women.

The only party that has emerged victorious from this battle has been the resistance.

If the US-backed Zionist army had truly defeated the Islamic Resistance, as Netanyahu claimed, his army would have continued the war rather than declare a 60-day truce.

Even Netanyahu's war cabinet ministers admit this is a defeat. Posting on X, the terrorist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir described the agreement as a "historic mistake".

"This is not a ceasefire. It's a return to the concept of silence for silence, and we've already seen where it leads. This agreement does not meet the goal of the war - to return the residents of the north safely home." He complained.

The genocidal maniac added that an agreement with the Lebanese army “is an agreement on ice.”

The stark reality is that over the past two months, Zionist soldiers have entered Lebanon horizontally and left vertically, as the late Hezbollah leader and martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah warned.

In the face of Hezbollah fighters, Israeli troops could not control ten meters in southern Lebanon in what will go down in history as the mother of all botched invasion attempts.

Even in the July 2006 war, the Zionist army managed to enter southern Lebanon and temporarily occupy Lebanese border towns like Khiam.

This time around, the screams of injured and exhausted Zionist troops could be heard by Hezbollah fighters, who not only welcomed but had been dreaming of the opportunity to fight elite Zionist infantry on their soil head-to-head.

In his last speech, Hezbollah's martyred leader, Sayyed Nasrallah, pledged that no military efforts would end Hezbollah's support front for the women and children in Gaza.

And it didn’t. The Zionists were forced to negotiate a ceasefire.  A ceasefire in Lebanon will follow a ceasefire in Gaza. Both are inter-connected.

Hezbollah has once again come out of a battle with the child-murdering regime victorious. This victory is more significant than the victory in 2006.

With its leaders and military commanders martyred Hezbollah surprised the world once more.

Which military expert could have imagined that within ten days of hardship for the Lebanese resistance, it would replace all its leaders and commanders and take the battle to the heart of Tel Aviv.

If this truce falls apart, Hezbollah will cherish the chance to strike occupied Palestinian cities again. It has already killed and injured some 1,300 Zionist troops in less than two months on the Lebanese border.

Many more have been eliminated and disabled in bombing campaigns on Zionist military bases.

If Israeli military generals instruct their soldiers to enter southern Lebanon within the next 60 days, they will essentially be target practice for Hezbollah.

There was no path forward for Netanyahu other than to beg the US and France to come to the rescue with a ceasefire. He can't keep Israeli settlers safe when his own bedroom was destroyed by a Hezbollah drone not too long ago and when his commanders have their safe houses bombed.

The mayors of illegal Zionist settlements in the north have already made clear that settlers won't return for fear of the Lebanese resistance. They have joined Ben-Gvir and the chorus of other Zionist officials who acknowledge what a defeat this actually is.

But it is also a testament that among the so-called Arab and Islamic rulers, only a handful can make the Zionist regime and its colonial squatters stay awake at night.

Hezbollah is the chosen party of God and has fulfilled the promise to its faith and the pledge to keep the Lebanese people safe and to stand up for the oppressed people in Gaza with all its might.

Only one side is returning to their homes and only one side is celebrating -- that's southern Lebanon.

Wesam Bahrani is an Iraqi journalist and commentator whose work focuses on the Axis of Resistance.

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