In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is defying Zionist aggression, while the November 2024 ceasefire has turned into a farce full of violations and provocations.
By Mohammad Molaei
On Lebanon’s rugged southern border, where the Hezbollah resistance movement continues to stand defiantly against the Zionist regime’s relentless and unwavering aggression, the so-called “ceasefire agreement” brokered by Washington on November 27, 2024, has become nothing less than a tragic farce, riddled with constant violations, calculated provocations, and complex strategic maneuvers by all parties involved.
This fragile truce, ostensibly designed to curb the escalation following the regime's barbaric and indiscriminate offensive in 2024, which devastated vast areas of Lebanese infrastructure and claimed thousands of innocent lives, has instead become a convenient smokescreen for Israel's persistent and brazen incursions.
These actions not only reveal the completely empty and unenforceable commitments enshrined in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006 to end the Zionist invasion of that year, but also demonstrate the evident impotence of international monitoring mechanisms, including the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), reduced to a mere spectator in the face of the regime's blatant disregard for international law.
By mid-November 2025, UNIFIL reports documented an alarming record of more than 5,000 Israeli ceasefire violations, including a wide range of transgressions such as unauthorized overflights by reconnaissance drones, ground incursions by armored patrols, and even maritime violations with vessels probing Lebanese territorial waters.
These systematic acts of terrorism, repeatedly condemned by UN human rights experts, the Lebanese Armed Forces, and regional bodies such as the Arab League, have caused the tragic loss of more than 300 Lebanese lives, including at least 111 civilians among women, children, and the elderly, while forcibly displacing more than 80,000 inhabitants from their border villages, turning prosperous communities into ghost towns and exacerbating an already critical humanitarian crisis marked by shortages of food, medicine, and shelter.
These violations underscore the Zionist entity’s deep contempt for Lebanese sovereignty, its calculated strategy to perpetuate a precarious “neither war nor peace” limbo that keeps the region on edge, and its insidious intent to undermine the morale and capabilities of the resistance, while the Hezbollah-led Axis of Resistance strengthens its position with unwavering resolve and strategic foresight, relying on the unbreakable bonds of solidarity within the Ummah.
The historical backdrop to this ongoing farce dates back to the brutal Zionist aggression of 2024 against Lebanon, when the regime deployed overwhelming firepower in a failed attempt to dismantle Hezbollah's infrastructure, only to face heroic resistance that inflicted heavy losses on Israeli forces and exposed the vulnerabilities of its lauded military machine.
The November 2024 ceasefire, imposed under pressure from the United States amid growing international outcry over the regime's war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon, was intended to establish a buffer zone, facilitate the return of displaced populations, and pave the way for diplomatic negotiations.
However, from the outset, the agreement has been undermined by Israel's refusal to fully withdraw its troops from occupied positions along the Blue Line, the UN-demarcated border, and by its persistent demands for unilateral disarmament of Hezbollah south of the Litani River—demands that ignore the regime's arsenal of nuclear weapons and advanced military equipment, funded with billions in US aid.
This duplicity is compounded by Washington's complicit role, providing diplomatic cover and intelligence support to Tel Aviv while feigning impartiality in mediation efforts, a pattern reminiscent of US-backed Zionist aggressions in the region.
The regime's renewed assault, disguised under the deceptive pretexts of "preventive security measures" and "anti-terrorist operations," has materialized in a sustained onslaught of kinetic operations that completely belie any genuine claim of de-escalation or compliance with the terms of the ceasefire.
Since the fragile ceasefire was established almost a year ago, Israeli forces have brazenly carried out more than 500 precision airstrikes, launched more than 330 salvos of heavy artillery from positions along the occupied Golan Heights and the Metula Salient, and conducted at least 260 targeted demolitions using bulldozers and explosive charges, deliberately focusing on civilian infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water reservoirs, and agricultural lands that underpin Lebanon's rural economy.
These attacks have not only devastated local livelihoods, destroying olive groves and vineyards that represent a significant part of southern Lebanon's GDP, but have also caused widespread environmental damage through the use of white phosphorus munitions, identified by UN investigators as potential war crimes due to their indiscriminate effects on the civilian population.
Among the most notorious and atrocious escalations are the savage raids of November 6, 2025, on the villages of Tayr Debba and Kfar Dounine, where squadrons of F-16I Sufa multirole fighter jets, armed with US-supplied GBU-39 small-diameter bombs and precision GPS/INS guidance, unloaded devastating payloads on residential compounds and community centers, resulting in the martyrdom of seven civilians, including two children, and injuries to 15 more, according to meticulous records from the Lebanese Ministry of Health and corroborated by testimonies from local Red Crescent teams.
These attacks, launched from Ramat David Air Base in the Jezreel Valley and reinforced by the constant presence of Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicles providing real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), exploit critical gaps in the nascent Lebanese integrated air defense system, employing low-altitude entry tactics, below 500 feet, to evade the radars of the FAL operated with Thales Ground Master 200 systems.
Furthermore, UNIFIL's interim reports, issued on October 30, 2025, and submitted to the UN Security Council, denounce these incursions as "flagrant and systematic violations" of Resolution 1701, which explicitly establishes the creation of an arms-free zone south of the Litani River, the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces to the Blue Line, and the deployment of FAL troops to maintain stability.
However, undeterred by such condemnations, the regime has intensified its entrenchment by constructing massive concrete barriers and observation posts that penetrate deep into Lebanese territory, confirmed by UNIFIL patrols near the village of Adaisseh, where satellite images from October 2025 show more than 2 kilometers of unauthorized fortifications, erected under the protective cover of Merkava IV battle tanks equipped with Trophy active protection systems to counter anti-tank threats.
This insidious pattern of attrition warfare, based on the Zionist army's doctrine of operations by effects (EBO), which prioritizes psychological demoralization and infrastructure denial over territorial conquest, does not seek total occupation, but rather to systematically erode Hezbollah's operational depth and logistical networks, although it has failed spectacularly to deter the firm and unwavering presence of the resistance in key villages such as Khiam, Marjayoun, and Bint Jbeil, where local communities mobilize in support of the resistance fighters.
Amid this relentless Zionist campaign, Hezbollah's reconstitution efforts stand as a shining example of the indomitable spirit and ingenious tactics of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, skillfully navigating the maze of Western-imposed sanctions, intensified surveillance, and coordinated blockades to rebuild its formidable arsenal and underground fortifications with remarkable efficiency.
Defying the regime's air supremacy, reinforced by F-35I Adir stealth fighters that make daily sorties, and US-backed checkpoints operated by FAL units under pressure from Washington, Hezbollah has managed to smuggle hundreds of rockets and precision munitions from Syrian depots since June 2025, taking advantage of a network of clandestine land routes through the strategic Qusayr corridor on the Syrian-Lebanese border, a vital route that has withstood repeated Israeli interdiction attempts.
The intercepted shipments, thwarted by Syrian Arab Army forces during an October 2025 raid near Hermel, revealed a sophisticated arsenal, including Russian-made Kornet-EM guided anti-tank missiles with a range of 9 km and tandem warheads capable of penetrating up to 1200 mm of reactive armor, 82 mm mortar shells for indirect fire support in rugged terrain, 12.7 mm DShK heavy machine guns for suppression of personnel and light vehicles, and 107 mm Katyusha-type rockets adapted for urban combat, with manufacturing dates from 2015, likely originating from pre-Assad era depots or from Iranian supplies recently replenished at secure facilities near Damascus.
These clandestine transfers, meticulously carried out by Hezbollah's elite Unit 4400 logistics unit, which specializes in supply chain management and evasion tactics, elude advanced detection methods through an intricate network of underground tunnels, such as the 3km Marah al-Zaqba conduit, partially destroyed by Elbit Hermes 900 drones during a targeted strike on February 9, 2025, but which had previously facilitated the movement of van-sized loads of ammunition crates and electronic components before its compromise.
The elite Radwan force, Hezbollah's rapid intervention unit known for its commando operations and undeterred by the heavy losses suffered in 2024, has reestablished a series of fortified positions south of the Litani River, integrating Iranian-supplied electronic warfare jammers, such as the Russian Krasukha-4 systems, to deceive and disable Zionist drone signals in L-band frequencies, along with layered air defense networks that include SA-22 Pantsir-S1 mobile batteries for low-visibility interceptions against cruise missiles and UAVs.
This remarkable resilience is further reinforced by nationwide military exercises conducted in September 2025, simulating asymmetric responses to invasion scenarios, including urban guerrilla tactics, laying mines in olive groves, and cyber counterattacks to block Israeli command links; exercises that involved more than 10,000 resistance fighters and underscored Hezbollah's deep strategic capability, maintaining an estimated inventory of 15,000-20,000 missile warheads despite the suffocating control of sanctions and blockades.
As a vanguard against Zionist expansionism, Hezbollah's efforts not only preserve Lebanon's territorial integrity, but also inspire the wider Axis of Resistance, from Gaza to Yemen, in its collective struggle against imperialist domination.
At the epicenter of this reconstitution process is the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose unwavering and principled support strengthens Hezbollah as the heroic and impregnable shield of the Islamic Ummah against Zionist and Western incursions.
Firmly rejecting the regime's arrogant ultimatums for Hezbollah's disarmament, which are nothing more than insidious and treacherous schemes designed to dismantle the Axis of Resistance and pave the way for unquestionable Zionist hegemony in the region, Tehran has stood firmly by Hezbollah.
Iranian support not only replenishes Hezbollah's depleted stocks, replacing losses from the 2024 war, but also reinforces the deep doctrinal synergy within the Axis of Resistance, positioning Hezbollah as a critical component against imperialist adventurism.
Tehran's resolute stance, eloquently expressed in the directives of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, during his speeches to IRGC commanders in October 2025, frames these support efforts as a sacred and divine duty to counter Zionist hegemony, deter further incursions, and foster unity among Muslim nations.
The dangerous trajectory of this ceasefire farce foreshadows a scenario of extreme risk, where the empty US threats to authorize “major Zionist campaigns” in the event that Hezbollah's disarmament fails by the end of November 2025, recalling the bellicose warnings of US envoy Tom Barrack during the Beirut roving diplomacy, resonate as mere empty posturing in the face of the unwavering strength and operational readiness of the resistance.
With Hezbollah's continued rearmament initiatives guaranteeing a multi-layered defensive architecture, any escalation by the regime north of the Litani River would inevitably invite a devastating war of attrition: elite Radwan commandos executing lightning ambushes with ALMAS launchers at densely populated urban points, along with coordinated salvos of Burkan short-range rockets with 500kg explosive warheads designed to saturate and overwhelm the Israeli Iron Dome's interceptor batteries.
Mohammad Molaei is a military affairs analyst based in Tehran.
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Israel violates ceasefire; Hezbollah rebuilds with renewed strength
https://www.hispantv.com/noticias/opinion/635304/israel-incumple-alto-fuego-hezbola-reconstruyeIn southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is defying Zionist aggression, while the November 2024 ceasefire has turned into a farce full of violations and provocations.
On Lebanon’s rugged southern border, where the Hezbollah resistance movement continues to stand defiantly against the Zionist regime’s relentless and unwavering aggression, the so-called “ceasefire agreement” brokered by Washington on November 27, 2024, has become nothing less than a tragic farce, riddled with constant violations, calculated provocations, and complex strategic maneuvers by all parties involved.
This fragile truce, ostensibly designed to curb the escalation following the regime's barbaric and indiscriminate offensive in 2024, which devastated vast areas of Lebanese infrastructure and claimed thousands of innocent lives, has instead become a convenient smokescreen for Israel's persistent and brazen incursions.
These actions not only reveal the completely empty and unenforceable commitments enshrined in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006 to end the Zionist invasion of that year, but also demonstrate the evident impotence of international monitoring mechanisms, including the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), reduced to a mere spectator in the face of the regime's blatant disregard for international law.
By mid-November 2025, UNIFIL reports documented an alarming record of more than 5,000 Israeli ceasefire violations, including a wide range of transgressions such as unauthorized overflights by reconnaissance drones, ground incursions by armored patrols, and even maritime violations with vessels probing Lebanese territorial waters.
These systematic acts of terrorism, repeatedly condemned by UN human rights experts, the Lebanese Armed Forces, and regional bodies such as the Arab League, have caused the tragic loss of more than 300 Lebanese lives, including at least 111 civilians among women, children, and the elderly, while forcibly displacing more than 80,000 inhabitants from their border villages, turning prosperous communities into ghost towns and exacerbating an already critical humanitarian crisis marked by shortages of food, medicine, and shelter.
These violations underscore the Zionist entity’s deep contempt for Lebanese sovereignty, its calculated strategy to perpetuate a precarious “neither war nor peace” limbo that keeps the region on edge, and its insidious intent to undermine the morale and capabilities of the resistance, while the Hezbollah-led Axis of Resistance strengthens its position with unwavering resolve and strategic foresight, relying on the unbreakable bonds of solidarity within the Ummah.
The historical backdrop to this ongoing farce dates back to the brutal Zionist aggression of 2024 against Lebanon, when the regime deployed overwhelming firepower in a failed attempt to dismantle Hezbollah's infrastructure, only to face heroic resistance that inflicted heavy losses on Israeli forces and exposed the vulnerabilities of its lauded military machine.
The November 2024 ceasefire, imposed under pressure from the United States amid growing international outcry over the regime's war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon, was intended to establish a buffer zone, facilitate the return of displaced populations, and pave the way for diplomatic negotiations.
However, from the outset, the agreement has been undermined by Israel's refusal to fully withdraw its troops from occupied positions along the Blue Line, the UN-demarcated border, and by its persistent demands for unilateral disarmament of Hezbollah south of the Litani River—demands that ignore the regime's arsenal of nuclear weapons and advanced military equipment, funded with billions in US aid.
This duplicity is compounded by Washington's complicit role, providing diplomatic cover and intelligence support to Tel Aviv while feigning impartiality in mediation efforts, a pattern reminiscent of US-backed Zionist aggressions in the region.
The regime's renewed assault, disguised under the deceptive pretexts of "preventive security measures" and "anti-terrorist operations," has materialized in a sustained onslaught of kinetic operations that completely belie any genuine claim of de-escalation or compliance with the terms of the ceasefire.
Since the fragile ceasefire was established almost a year ago, Israeli forces have brazenly carried out more than 500 precision airstrikes, launched more than 330 salvos of heavy artillery from positions along the occupied Golan Heights and the Metula Salient, and conducted at least 260 targeted demolitions using bulldozers and explosive charges, deliberately focusing on civilian infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water reservoirs, and agricultural lands that underpin Lebanon's rural economy.
These attacks have not only devastated local livelihoods, destroying olive groves and vineyards that represent a significant part of southern Lebanon's GDP, but have also caused widespread environmental damage through the use of white phosphorus munitions, identified by UN investigators as potential war crimes due to their indiscriminate effects on the civilian population.
Among the most notorious and atrocious escalations are the savage raids of November 6, 2025, on the villages of Tayr Debba and Kfar Dounine, where squadrons of F-16I Sufa multirole fighter jets, armed with US-supplied GBU-39 small-diameter bombs and precision GPS/INS guidance, unloaded devastating payloads on residential compounds and community centers, resulting in the martyrdom of seven civilians, including two children, and injuries to 15 more, according to meticulous records from the Lebanese Ministry of Health and corroborated by testimonies from local Red Crescent teams.
These attacks, launched from Ramat David Air Base in the Jezreel Valley and reinforced by the constant presence of Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicles providing real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), exploit critical gaps in the nascent Lebanese integrated air defense system, employing low-altitude entry tactics, below 500 feet, to evade the radars of the FAL operated with Thales Ground Master 200 systems.
Furthermore, UNIFIL's interim reports, issued on October 30, 2025, and submitted to the UN Security Council, denounce these incursions as "flagrant and systematic violations" of Resolution 1701, which explicitly establishes the creation of an arms-free zone south of the Litani River, the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces to the Blue Line, and the deployment of FAL troops to maintain stability.
However, undeterred by such condemnations, the regime has intensified its entrenchment by constructing massive concrete barriers and observation posts that penetrate deep into Lebanese territory, confirmed by UNIFIL patrols near the village of Adaisseh, where satellite images from October 2025 show more than 2 kilometers of unauthorized fortifications, erected under the protective cover of Merkava IV battle tanks equipped with Trophy active protection systems to counter anti-tank threats.
This insidious pattern of attrition warfare, based on the Zionist army's doctrine of operations by effects (EBO), which prioritizes psychological demoralization and infrastructure denial over territorial conquest, does not seek total occupation, but rather to systematically erode Hezbollah's operational depth and logistical networks, although it has failed spectacularly to deter the firm and unwavering presence of the resistance in key villages such as Khiam, Marjayoun, and Bint Jbeil, where local communities mobilize in support of the resistance fighters.
Amid this relentless Zionist campaign, Hezbollah's reconstitution efforts stand as a shining example of the indomitable spirit and ingenious tactics of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, skillfully navigating the maze of Western-imposed sanctions, intensified surveillance, and coordinated blockades to rebuild its formidable arsenal and underground fortifications with remarkable efficiency.
Defying the regime's air supremacy, reinforced by F-35I Adir stealth fighters that make daily sorties, and US-backed checkpoints operated by FAL units under pressure from Washington, Hezbollah has managed to smuggle hundreds of rockets and precision munitions from Syrian depots since June 2025, taking advantage of a network of clandestine land routes through the strategic Qusayr corridor on the Syrian-Lebanese border, a vital route that has withstood repeated Israeli interdiction attempts.
The intercepted shipments, thwarted by Syrian Arab Army forces during an October 2025 raid near Hermel, revealed a sophisticated arsenal, including Russian-made Kornet-EM guided anti-tank missiles with a range of 9 km and tandem warheads capable of penetrating up to 1200 mm of reactive armor, 82 mm mortar shells for indirect fire support in rugged terrain, 12.7 mm DShK heavy machine guns for suppression of personnel and light vehicles, and 107 mm Katyusha-type rockets adapted for urban combat, with manufacturing dates from 2015, likely originating from pre-Assad era depots or from Iranian supplies recently replenished at secure facilities near Damascus.
These clandestine transfers, meticulously carried out by Hezbollah's elite Unit 4400 logistics unit, which specializes in supply chain management and evasion tactics, elude advanced detection methods through an intricate network of underground tunnels, such as the 3km Marah al-Zaqba conduit, partially destroyed by Elbit Hermes 900 drones during a targeted strike on February 9, 2025, but which had previously facilitated the movement of van-sized loads of ammunition crates and electronic components before its compromise.
The elite Radwan force, Hezbollah's rapid intervention unit known for its commando operations and undeterred by the heavy losses suffered in 2024, has reestablished a series of fortified positions south of the Litani River, integrating Iranian-supplied electronic warfare jammers, such as the Russian Krasukha-4 systems, to deceive and disable Zionist drone signals in L-band frequencies, along with layered air defense networks that include SA-22 Pantsir-S1 mobile batteries for low-visibility interceptions against cruise missiles and UAVs.
This remarkable resilience is further reinforced by nationwide military exercises conducted in September 2025, simulating asymmetric responses to invasion scenarios, including urban guerrilla tactics, laying mines in olive groves, and cyber counterattacks to block Israeli command links; exercises that involved more than 10,000 resistance fighters and underscored Hezbollah's deep strategic capability, maintaining an estimated inventory of 15,000-20,000 missile warheads despite the suffocating control of sanctions and blockades.
As a vanguard against Zionist expansionism, Hezbollah's efforts not only preserve Lebanon's territorial integrity, but also inspire the wider Axis of Resistance, from Gaza to Yemen, in its collective struggle against imperialist domination.
At the epicenter of this reconstitution process is the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose unwavering and principled support strengthens Hezbollah as the heroic and impregnable shield of the Islamic Ummah against Zionist and Western incursions.
Firmly rejecting the regime's arrogant ultimatums for Hezbollah's disarmament, which are nothing more than insidious and treacherous schemes designed to dismantle the Axis of Resistance and pave the way for unquestionable Zionist hegemony in the region, Tehran has stood firmly by Hezbollah.
Iranian support not only replenishes Hezbollah's depleted stocks, replacing losses from the 2024 war, but also reinforces the deep doctrinal synergy within the Axis of Resistance, positioning Hezbollah as a critical component against imperialist adventurism.
Tehran's resolute stance, eloquently expressed in the directives of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, during his speeches to IRGC commanders in October 2025, frames these support efforts as a sacred and divine duty to counter Zionist hegemony, deter further incursions, and foster unity among Muslim nations.
The dangerous trajectory of this ceasefire farce foreshadows a scenario of extreme risk, where the empty US threats to authorize “major Zionist campaigns” in the event that Hezbollah's disarmament fails by the end of November 2025, recalling the bellicose warnings of US envoy Tom Barrack during the Beirut roving diplomacy, resonate as mere empty posturing in the face of the unwavering strength and operational readiness of the resistance.
With Hezbollah's continued rearmament initiatives guaranteeing a multi-layered defensive architecture, any escalation by the regime north of the Litani River would inevitably invite a devastating war of attrition: elite Radwan commandos executing lightning ambushes with ALMAS launchers at densely populated urban points, along with coordinated salvos of Burkan short-range rockets with 500kg explosive warheads designed to saturate and overwhelm the Israeli Iron Dome's interceptor batteries.
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