Hezbollah

Hezbollah is a Shiite party in Lebanon. For 2022, its combat wing is an order of magnitude more capable than the Lebanese army. The organization is armed with more than hundreds of thousands of missiles, as well as combat-ready, motivated and trained detachments.

Since its founding in the mid-1980s, Hezbollah has fundamentally opposed Israel and fought wars with it - from the liberation of occupied southern Lebanon in the 1990s to repelling an invasion in 2006. To this day, there are shootings and even exchanges of blows on the border between states.

Hezbollah is Iran's main ally in Lebanon.

A significant part of Lebanon's Shiite youth sincerely support the group, which is facilitated by its successful propaganda and broad social activities. The organization has a scout movement, charitable and medical organizations, a network of sports centers and even its own football club. All this forms a large base of supporters who support Hezbollah even without joining its ranks.

2024

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli bombings

The press service of the AOI on September 28, 2024 officially announced the liquidation of the head of the Lebanese movement as a result of a raid on Beirut the day before, accusing him of organizing terrorist acts against the Israelis.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Israeli media also disseminate information about the death of the daughter of Secretary General Zeinab Nasrallah in the Lebanese capital.

In addition, according to the Israel Defense Forces, only the commander of the Badr unit, Abu Ali Rida, has survived from the Hezbollah leadership at the moment.

Hezbollah issued an official statement confirming the death of Hassan Nasrallah. Representatives of the movement promised to continue the path of their deceased leader in supporting, Palestine defending Lebanon and confronting the enemy.

The death of the commander of the special forces "Radwan" Ibrahim Muhammad Akil during Israeli airstrikes

On September 21, 2022, the Hezbollah press service officially recognized the death of the commander of the Radwan special forces, Ibrahim Muhammad Akil, also known as Haj Abdel Kadir. His body was found by the end of yesterday a few hours after the airstrike on Beirut.

The death of Ibrahim Akil is one of the largest losses in the ranks of the Lebanese group. This is given that after the assassination of Fuad Shukri, he took his place as Deputy Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and actually became the No. 2 person in the leadership of the organization.

Nine people killed after remote detonation of mobile phones, solar panels, car radio and other equipment

On September 18, 2024, the day after the remote detonation of pagers, more explosions rang out in Beirut.

This time, detonation of other devices is reported, including mobile phones, solar panels, electronic locks, car radio recorders, and even kitchen appliances. Videos of fires in residential buildings also appeared on social networks.

Probably, external intervention was carried out in equipment with multimedia capabilities. The cyber attack affected portable walkie-talkies used by the Shiite organisation Hezbollah. The explosions also sounded at the funeral of the son of one of its high-ranking members, who died on September 17 as a result of a similar attack.

The media disseminate information that all walkie-talkies were from among the recently supplied devices of the Japanese concern ICOM. Israeli intelligence could equip them with explosives, as could the pagers that exploded the day before.

According to preliminary data, on September 18, nine people have already died, more than 300 were injured in the Lebanese capital, the Bekaa Valley, Nabatiya and other settlements in the south of the country. The speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, was injured.

It is not yet known whether the operation on the mass explosion of communication devices in Lebanon is preparation for active hostilities on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Amid the events of the last day, the president of neighboring Syria, Bashar al-Assad, has already ordered Syrian commanders and intelligence officers to abandon two-way radio stations and portable communication devices, which could significantly affect the possibility of communication between units.

Read about how the explosion of electronics is technically implemented and whether it is possible to repeat this in Russia in the TAdviser article at this link.

2,800 citizens and 1,500 Hezbollah members were affected by the remote undermining of their walkie-talkies and pagers by Israeli intelligence agencies

In September 2024, Lebanese resources reported that in Beirut, Israeli hackers hacked into walkie-talkies and pagers that were used by Hezbollah members for internal encrypted communications, after which they caused overheating of batteries and detonation.

As a result of the simultaneous explosion of devices in Dahia (Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital Beirut), according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, it exceeded 2,800 people. Information was also received on the presence of the dead: according to preliminary information, their number is from eight to 25 Lebanese.

According to Israeli media, most of the victims are members of the Shiite group.

Among the wounded were officers of the Lebanese group, as well as Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtab Khamenei. He did not have a pager, but one of his companions had such a device.

Later, the agency Reuters reported that as a result of the Israeli operation to remotely undermine the pagers, about 1,500 members of the Shiite group Hezbollah lost combat capability.

Israel kills top Hezbollah member Haj Jawad al-Tawil

In January 2024, an Israeli drone launched another pinpoint strike on Herbet Selm in southern Lebanon. As a result of the missile attack, one of the senior commanders of the Rezwan special forces as part of the Hezbollah group, Haj Javad al-Tawil, was killed.

Missile strike on Israeli military air traffic control base Meron

In January 2024, Hezbollah spoke about its missile strike on Meron, an Israeli air traffic control base on top of Mount Jarmak in northern occupied Palestine and its highest mountain peak.

Meron Base is considered the only air control, surveillance and control center in the north, and there is no serious alternative.

It is one of two bases in Israel, Meron to the north and the other "Mitzpe Ramon" to the south.

Meron Base organizes, coordinates and manages all air operations in the direction of,,, and the Syria Lebanon Turkey Cyprus northern part of the eastern Mediterranean basin.

The base is a large center for conducting electronic suppression operations in these directions. This base employs a large number of elite Israeli officers and soldiers.

2022

How Hezbollah gets its guns

Direct supplies to Lebanon cannot always provide secrecy and entail the risks of attacks by opposition Hezbollah political forces, so cargo traffic went through neighboring Syria. Planes unloaded weapons at Damascus airport, after which they went on the ground to Lebanon.

However, in the early 2020s, the Israeli Air Force regularly attacked the air harbor immediately after the arrival of the sides. It is likely that due to losses and resulting costs, Iran decided to supply goods directly to Lebanon.

In December 2022, the media reported on Israel's threats to strike at Beirut airport. The reason was speculation about the use of the air harbor of the Lebanese capital for the supply of weapons allegedly carried out by the Iranian airline Meraj Airlines. Lebanese authorities deny all charges.

Of course, the attacks of the Israelis influenced Iranian logistics, but the Syrian authorities also played a role in this. In nearly 3 years of truce and no external threat, the family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has strengthened its position and actively tried to reduce the influence of its foreign allies, including Hezbollah. This is largely in exchange for money from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which are sharply opposed to Iran.

Back in May 2022, the Rybar channel became aware of specific cases when the Syrian special services restricted the movement of Hezbollah-owned cars: only three or four command vehicles were allowed to move without inspection. Passes for passage through checkpoints were also massively seized from the transport of the group. Through the creation of supply problems, the organization began to be literally squeezed out of the occupied areas. As a result, the leadership of Hezbollah considered a significant reduction in the presence in Syria six months ago.

Drug trafficking captagon

In the West, in 2022, they like to portray the Lebanese group Hezbollah as the main beneficiary from the drug trade in captagon. She really earns on prohibited substances, but she will not be able to become a monopoly even if she wishes.

Drug production in Lebanon is carried out by all the largest political forces. The sphere is so regulated that even after the legalization of the cultivation of medical cannabis, cartels began hunting for loners in order to prevent them from entering the market.

Hezbollah will not be able to fully independently ensure the traffic of substances even within Lebanon itself: there are enough disloyal areas in the country, where they simply will not let cargo to the port. The production and delivery of captagon outside the country would not have been possible without the help of the Lebanese authorities and big business.

Through the efforts of the Western media, the role of Hezbollah in the regional drug trade is extremely exaggerated. At best, the grouping is only a link in the traffic chain of prohibited substances.

2015: Israel sets up Hungary shell company BAC Consulting to assemble pagers with explosives to attack Hezbollah

the pagers used in the September 2024 Lebanon bombings were produced by the Budapest-based shell company BAC Consulting. Taiwanese pager company Gold Apollo said it only licensed the company to its brand and was not involved in the production of the devices. Read more here.

In early October 2024, The Washington Post published an article according to which Israeli intelligence in 2015 introduced mined pagers and walkie-talkies with a device for listening to conversations of Hezbollah members in Lebanon.