Eye on the Enemy: "Israel" Hints It Stands behind Explosion in Nabi-Sheeth
Local Editor
A senior "Israeli" security official told "Yedioth Ahronoth" on Thursday that a series of mistakes and mysterious explosions are occurring at the weapons' stores of Hizbullah in recent years, and what happened yesterday in the village of Nabi-Sheeth, is more like a "dagger stabbed in the heart of the organization."
According to the security analyst in the newspaper, Ronen Bergman, the last explosion happened exactly a year ago, in the month of November 2011 when a large weapons' store for Hizbullah exploded near Seddekin village in south Lebanon, "and it's always the same rituals: Hizbullah denies out of the incident, and later regretfully admits its occurrence."
Bergman added that one of the key lessons of Hizbullah from Lebanon Second War is to develop arms dumps in urban areas and in uninhabited areas, on the basis of the hypothesis that the "Israeli" army will cut off supply routes at the moment war will be erupted.
Bergman noted that Hizbullah has rebuilt its weapons' stores in secret, in spite of UNIFIL, and with the silent support of the Lebanese army as it prepares for the third Lebanon war.
"Israel" is taking that into consideration with disturbance, as the "Israeli" planes flying over Lebanon documenting daily the growing of Hizbullah, but is still committed to the cease-fire.
Bergman concluded that these explosions caused Hizbullah severe damage: some are occurring in prohibited areas where the organization should not possess weapons in accordance to the Resolution 1701 of the United Nations, the explosions reveal that Hizbullah possesses huge ammunition in populated areas and this puts civilians at risk, and these explosions also reveal that someone vanquished again the tight field security of Hizbullah.
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"Israeli" General: We are Exposed to the Enemy (Hizbullah)
Brigadier General Ofer Wolf, director of the IDF's Technology and Logistics Branch, whose term has recently ended, warned that " in an all-out war scenario associated with rocket fire, it will be difficult for us to use our capabilities in the field of logistics appropriately, we are not immune enough underground, and we do not have a storage based on an underground infrastructure, and our warehouses are not fortified enough."
"During the war, some of the stores in the military service will be emptied within days. We will have to produce what we need in real-time, parallel to the fighting, but we do not have the ability to do this underground production. The same applies to storing ammunition, fuel and the essential elements of the current procedures of the war. From my part, there is quite a frustration and this is a worrying situation," he told the online newspaper "Globes".
In response to the question: What hinders the transition to the underground? The "Israeli" officer replied, "The tunnels scheme failed because of considerations related to the budgets. Building an underground ammunition store costs hundreds of millions of shekels; it requires drilling, installation of sophisticated systems to monitor weather conditions, and protection systems for internal explosions. Today we do not have this, the bases of ammunition and storage that we have are located above the ground, and some of them are known to the enemy and are within his range."
He added that hitting it during the war will complicate our job. "If we add to this situation as well, during the war, the moving paths closed due to security events, the ability of our work will be empty talk. There are countries less threatened than us and knew how to invest in this field properly. "
Source: "Israeli" Media, translated and edited by moqawama.org
A senior "Israeli" security official told "Yedioth Ahronoth" on Thursday that a series of mistakes and mysterious explosions are occurring at the weapons' stores of Hizbullah in recent years, and what happened yesterday in the village of Nabi-Sheeth, is more like a "dagger stabbed in the heart of the organization."
According to the security analyst in the newspaper, Ronen Bergman, the last explosion happened exactly a year ago, in the month of November 2011 when a large weapons' store for Hizbullah exploded near Seddekin village in south Lebanon, "and it's always the same rituals: Hizbullah denies out of the incident, and later regretfully admits its occurrence."
Bergman added that one of the key lessons of Hizbullah from Lebanon Second War is to develop arms dumps in urban areas and in uninhabited areas, on the basis of the hypothesis that the "Israeli" army will cut off supply routes at the moment war will be erupted.
Bergman noted that Hizbullah has rebuilt its weapons' stores in secret, in spite of UNIFIL, and with the silent support of the Lebanese army as it prepares for the third Lebanon war.
"Israel" is taking that into consideration with disturbance, as the "Israeli" planes flying over Lebanon documenting daily the growing of Hizbullah, but is still committed to the cease-fire.
Bergman concluded that these explosions caused Hizbullah severe damage: some are occurring in prohibited areas where the organization should not possess weapons in accordance to the Resolution 1701 of the United Nations, the explosions reveal that Hizbullah possesses huge ammunition in populated areas and this puts civilians at risk, and these explosions also reveal that someone vanquished again the tight field security of Hizbullah.
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"Israeli" General: We are Exposed to the Enemy (Hizbullah)
Brigadier General Ofer Wolf, director of the IDF's Technology and Logistics Branch, whose term has recently ended, warned that " in an all-out war scenario associated with rocket fire, it will be difficult for us to use our capabilities in the field of logistics appropriately, we are not immune enough underground, and we do not have a storage based on an underground infrastructure, and our warehouses are not fortified enough."
"During the war, some of the stores in the military service will be emptied within days. We will have to produce what we need in real-time, parallel to the fighting, but we do not have the ability to do this underground production. The same applies to storing ammunition, fuel and the essential elements of the current procedures of the war. From my part, there is quite a frustration and this is a worrying situation," he told the online newspaper "Globes".
In response to the question: What hinders the transition to the underground? The "Israeli" officer replied, "The tunnels scheme failed because of considerations related to the budgets. Building an underground ammunition store costs hundreds of millions of shekels; it requires drilling, installation of sophisticated systems to monitor weather conditions, and protection systems for internal explosions. Today we do not have this, the bases of ammunition and storage that we have are located above the ground, and some of them are known to the enemy and are within his range."
He added that hitting it during the war will complicate our job. "If we add to this situation as well, during the war, the moving paths closed due to security events, the ability of our work will be empty talk. There are countries less threatened than us and knew how to invest in this field properly. "
Source: "Israeli" Media, translated and edited by moqawama.org
