Hezbollah has so far admitted to losing 37 terrorists in the last 48 hours, some to air strikes and some to the mass explosion of pagers and walkie talkies throughout Lebanon in Syria over the same time period.
Authorities in Israel believe that the actual numbers of Hezbollah dead are significantly higher than the official numbers.
The Lebanese al-Akhbar reports 20 dead from the walkie talkie explosions, as well as 470 wounded, including 150 seriously. Adding the 300 reported seriously injured from the pager explosions, this means some 450 Hezbollah terrorists are seriously wounded.
A doctor from the American University in Lebanon said that the types of injuries many have suffered to their hands and eyes means they need to be treated in multiple departments of a hospital at once, doubling and even tripling the work burden.
Roi Kais reports: This is what the editor of the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, close to Hezbollah, Ibrahim Al-Amin, wrote this morning in his article titled "The War of Annihilation in its Lebanese Version: Israel Wants to Crush the Resistance":
The "Fatal Call" operation (the exploding pagers) was an Israeli success in the campaign in terms of image and action. For the first time, it succeeded in damaging the central element of trust in the relationship between Hezbollah and its people and supporters.
When Israel activated the second part of the operation yesterday, it was intended to reinforce the doubt that replaced trust, causing the organization's supporters, its social environment, and its sympathetic environment to ask embarrassing questions about how to treat Hezbollah activists, its centers, and institutions.
According to him, it's enough to notice the ease of spreading rumors about where the enemy can reach and detonate devices found in every car, office, and apartment to understand that we are at a sensitive moment in terms of the trust relationships that characterized the connection between Hezbollah and its people, public, and even its supporters.
According to Al-Amin, Israel's main goal is to reach Hezbollah's military capabilities in various fields, capabilities that include manpower and means. It's reasonable to consider that Israel is actually preparing for a new phase in the severe confrontation with the organization, in which it will try to harm its great capabilities in the human and military sphere, and this is what makes the talk of a total war realistic: "What the enemy did to us is a kind of war of annihilation, even if it has chosen so far to do so in a different way from its cruel crimes in Palestine."
