Hezbollah’s leadership has decided to change the military tactics related to the firing of anti-tank missiles from Lebanon at Israeli military posts, a media report said on Friday, a day after the southern front witnessed no Hezbollah attacks for the first time since October 8.
From now on, only two Hezbollah fighters instead of several would carry out any anti-tank missile attack on the Israelis, Radio Voice of Lebanon (93.3) quoted pro-Hezbollah sources as saying.
“Although the leadership has informed the resistance fighters that every member of the anti-armor unit is a potential martyr, disputes have erupted within the resistance fighters in this unit due to competition over who wants to go strike the enemy,” the sources said.
“All of them want to go to the front lines to target the resistance’s weapons at the enemy, although they know that they might not come back or even that they might return shredded,” the sources added.
Around 50 Hezbollah members have been killed by Israeli fire since the eruption of hostilities on October 8 -- a day after Hamas’ historic attack on south Israel.
Lebanon's southern border has seen tit-for-tat exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah for the past three weeks. Palestinian militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad as well as others from Lebanon’s Jamaa Islamiya group have also fired Katyusha missiles at northern Israel from Lebanon.
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