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Israel At War – Day 426

Rebuilding And Rearming

Hezbollah Rebuilding

We read in a report from the Jewish News Syndicate that Hezbollah is indeed using the ceasefire to revive itself as feared:

The Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist organization Hezbollah has already begun rebuilding its military capabilities and financial operations, just over a week since a ceasefire with Israel went into effect after 13 and a half months of war.

Among their efforts are to recruit new soldiers, continue internal weapons productions, and find ways to get arms from outside their borders:

While the IDF’s aerial and ground offensives severely degraded the Iranian proxy’s terrorist infrastructure and forces, according to U.S. intelligence estimates, Hezbollah has started recruiting new fighters, boosting domestic weapons production and looking for ways to continue smuggling arms in via Syria.

We are learning all of this from a variety to sources:

Reuters cited a senior American official, an Israeli official, and two U.S. lawmakers briefed on the intelligence in its reporting published on Wednesday.

Mind you, all of what I just cited is prohibited in the deal:

According to the terms of the Nov. 27 ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah is prohibited from rearming.

Hezbollah’s military abilities were severely diminished, but not totally demolished:

Hezbollah lost more than half of its weapons stockpiles and thousands of fighters during the war with Israel, according to American assessments. However, it has not been destroyed, with the sources saying that it still has thousands of short-range rockets and will try to rebuild using weapons factories in neighboring countries with transportation routes into Lebanon.

One source noted that Hezbollah is only interrupted and can survive this temporary halt in action:

One of the lawmakers told Reuters that Hezbollah has been “temporarily weakened” and its command-and-control capabilities diminished. However, the lawmaker notes, “This organization is built to withstand disruption.”

As we now know, Syria is where the current war against Hezbollah is being fought:

Washington is particularly concerned about Syria, where Turkish-backed jihadist terrorist groups recently launched offensives in Aleppo and Hama, in a major challenge to the Assad regime and its Iranian and Russian backers. Israel continues to target Hezbollah smuggling routes in Syria and at the Syrian-Lebanon border and to disrupt Iranian weapons shipments via Syria.

US Wants Syria To Help

The current US administration wants Syria to help keep Hezbollah in check which is a pipe dream if there ever was one:

A senior U.S. official revealed that Washington is urging Syrian President Bashar Assad to restrict Hezbollah’s activities, with other regional countries being enlisted to assist in this effort. Reuters reported earlier this week that the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates discussed the possibility of lifting sanctions on the Assad regime, provided, among other conditions, he halts the weapons supply routes to Hezbollah.

And it is no surprise that rather than stop fighting temporarily, the terrorist group is actively working to continue to battle Israel any way they can:

Hezbollah officials assert that the group will maintain its “resistance” against Israel. However, sources in Lebanon indicate that Hezbollah’s primary focus at the moment is on rebuilding and restoring homes damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Southern Lebanon and Beirut.

Hezbollah needs to repair its financial network as well:

Meanwhile, Saudi-owned, London-based pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported that Hezbollah has begun assessing repairs to its financial arm, Al-Qard al-Hassan, which was heavily damaged by Israeli attacks during the war.

They need the houses rebuilt because they used them to store weapons as well as fire rockets from them:

The Iranian proxy plans to pay housing grants through the bank to repair the homes of families impacted by the war. Each family may receive $12,000 for rent and home repairs.

Despite, suffering severe blows in an Israeli aerial operation on Oct. 21, the bank resumed operations a week after the ceasefire.

There is a dispute on how much damage was done to the bank:

The Saudi newspaper highlighted that “the announcement of the bank’s resumed operations contradicts Israeli claims of its destruction.” However, a source close to Hezbollah confirmed that the group had suffered significant financial losses during the war. The source further explained that the funds for rehabilitation will not come from Al-Qard al-Hassan’s resources, but from recent financial transfers from Iran to Hezbollah.

Money does make the world go around and Iran appears to be providing the finances for Hezbollah to rebuild:

Iran transferred $1 billion via a regional intermediate on the first day of the ceasefire, which Hezbollah plans to use for its rehabilitation efforts.

As you can see, this ceasefire is hardly halting terrorists activities. People who thought it would lead to peace with the two combatants are blind to the intent of these Iranian proxies. They’re plans to destroy Israel are not being hindered but in fact is giving at least Hezbollah time to breath and ready themselves for the next attacks on Israel. Israel knew this all the time, but apparently Biden put pressure on Netanyahu to agree to the deal or else. While we don’t know exactly what it was that they used, the PM relented. Perhaps he knew that he could wait out the US administrations blackmail tactics until President Trump gets back in power and the meddler-in-chief and all his antisemitic minions are gone. Unless we get more information, we simply don’t know, so as we pray for the peace of Jerusalem we need to pray that the hidden things are made known and then dealt with. Right now these plans can be defeated in the spiritual realm where we can dispatch angelic forces to take them out before they can do more damage. And we can then loose those same angels to enact God’s plans in their place.