IOF Officer: Hezbollah’s Syria Experience Upgraded Its Ground Incursion Ability

Monday, 15 September 2014

IOF Officer: Hezbollah’s Syria Experience Upgraded Its Ground Incursion Ability

Almanar

A senior Israeli military official confirmed that Hezbollah’s training and experience during the Syrian war gave it the ability to launch a ground incursion if a war with the Zionist entity broke out.

“We would be deluding ourselves and the public if we claimed that this was impossible,” the officer said.
“Hezbollah’s confidence is growing, along with its combat experience in Syria,” the Jerusalem Post quoted the officer, who was not named, as saying.

The officer said that Hezbollah would probably accompany massive rocket fire around the country with a ground incursion into a strip of land in the Galilee. “Hezbollah plans to send many combatants into Israeli territory near the border and seize it.”

He told reporters that Hezbollah would use dozens to hundreds of troops in an attempt to hold a piece of territory for a limited time as a way to boast victory. “The IDF, however, would be able to retake the area fairly quickly,” he claimed.

The officer said no proof had been found that Hezbollah was digging tunnels into the occupied Palestinian territories the way Hamas has done from the Gaza Strip. The Zionist army, however, realizes that this strategy is still a possibility, according to Haaretz.