Was There A Miracle In Israel's North? Hezbollah’s ‘Command Day’ Never Arrived

MIRACLE IN THE NORTH?

Tal Heinrich

What if the Hezbollah terrorist army had simultaneously invaded northern Israel from Lebanon on Oct. 7, 2023? ALL ISRAEL NEWS Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg raised this not-at-all-hypothetical question on THE ROSENBERG REPORT, his weekly show that airs on TBN.

In the latest episode, Rosenberg visited an IDF base in the north of the country, where Israeli military officials explained – and tangibly showed – just how close Israel came to a complete catastrophe on that day. 

“I got a briefing today on 18,000 pieces of military hardware, weapons, machine guns, missiles, rocket launchers, all kinds of stuff that Israel captured from Hezbollah and even more was destroyed,” Rosenberg said.

“The Hezbollah plan was to invade northern Israel – to capture the whole Galilee region – and basically do to northern Israel what Hamas ended up doing in southern Israel, in the Gaza envelope.”

Lt.-Colonel Nadav Shoshani, who serves as an International Spokesman for the IDF, told Joel that what Hezbollah was planning was, in fact, a much bigger invasion of Israel than what Hamas was able accomplish on Oct. 7.

“They have planned to the last detail – to the shoelaces of the terrorist who needs to infiltrate Israel – all the details for a mass attack,” he said. 

Shoshani noted that the Shia Lebanese terror group, that was still led by Hassan Nasrallah in 2023, had a greater force than Hamas and larger amounts of sophisticated weapons.

Additionally, he pointed out that Israel’s border with Lebanon is longer than the one with Gaza. All these could have been a disastrous recipe for a lethal attack that luckily didn’t materialize.

Shoshani showed Rosenberg and his team some Hezbollah vehicles with the capability to fire rockets. 

“This pickup truck hides in a civilian house, comes out, fires 24 rockets, goes back in and reloads,” he explained. 

When IDF troops entered the South of Lebanon, they found such trucks, ammunition, bunkers and tunnels all across the area and in almost every home.  

“We call them ‘terror villages.’ Every second house had some sort of terror infrastructure in it,” Shoshani said. 

He continued to describe one of the tunnels that Israeli troops discovered, about a mile away from Israeli northern communities.

“When we exploded it to destroy it – it was so big, that the magnitude (of the explosion) created an earthquake alert for the people in northern Israel. So, we're talking about a vast, system for them to attack Israel,” the military spokesperson noted. 

One IDF career officer whose face had to be blurred on the show to protect his identity, admitted in his conversation with Rosenberg that even though Israeli Intelligence was aware of the invasion plan – the magnitude of Hezbollah’s preparations still surprised them. 

“The amount of bunkers, the amount of tunnels that were close to the border, the role that the villages close to the border played in this invasion, even amazed us,” he said. 

The officer had confirmed to Joel that Hezbollah had likely three times the number of weapons and supplies than the IDF had expected. Munitions that were discovered by Israeli troops bore the hallmarks of Iran, Russia and North Korea. 

“What percentage of Hezbollah missiles and drones does the IDF estimate that it has destroyed at this point?” Rosenberg asked the IDF’s International Spokesperson. 

Shoshani replied that the military estimated it had managed to destroy around 70-80 percent of Hezbollah’s stockpile. 

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