Israel's true objective in Lebanon: Dismantling Hezbollah’s ballistic arsenal

Behind the arguments put forward by Israel to justify its deadly escalation in Lebanon lie strategic objectives.

The war of attrition that Hezbollah has imposed over the past 11 months has exhausted Israel on military, economic, and psychological fronts.

Israeli, American, and western experts have repeatedly highlighted this situation since the Lebanese Shia party opened the Lebanese-Israeli front on 8 October 2023.

In recent weeks, Israel has managed to shift the balance of power through a series of operations that culminated on 27 September with the assassination of the party's Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, along with an unknown number of political and military leaders.

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