Some of the Iran -funded terrorist arms in the Middle East, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, suffered invaluable losses in a year and a half of wars held with Israel. The hard setback of Ali Khamenei’s regime, this time indoors, puts in check the survival of these groups.
With most of its destroyed tunnels, without commanders and basic resources, Hamas maintains a fired war with failure with Israeli defense forces (FDI) in Gaza.
Three sources close to the Palestinian group said to the agency Reuters This week that militiamen are operating autonomously on orders to resist as much as possible, but there is no certainty of any control over the ground in the face of Israel’s continuous operations.
An Israeli officer estimated Hamas’ losses on over 20,000 fighters. In addition to FDI military operations, Israel has been working in Gaza with Palestinian militia enemy clans, which opens a new inner front of the terrorist group.
A few years ago, Hezbollah had a powerful influence – military and political – in Lebanon. Since defeat in the open war with Israel, the militia has lost all this life force. After the numerous military losses, including human resources, the Shiite group accepted a ceasefire that has been held for more than six months.
Still, Israel maintains its operations to overthrow until the last military installation hidden in Lebanon. On Friday (27), the country launched new bombings against various areas in the south of Lebanese territory, the third initiative of this type in one week, aiming at military facilities and weapons belonging to Hezbollah.
With this, Israel avoids or delayed in years a future rearmament of one of Tehran -funded terrorist arms. The day before, Israel’s defense forces said they killed one of those responsible for Hezbollah’s elite forces and a member of his observation battalion in separated attacks against the localities of Beit Lif and Barachit, both in the southern region of Lebanon.
The Houthis, a rebel group located in Yemen, is the only one who has manifested themselves since the American and Israeli attacks against Iran saying they are ready to resume attacks on the Red Sea and against the state of Israel, but there is no evidence that points to a force capable of providing substantial support to Iran.
All of these accumulated losses point to the decline of the “axis of resistance,” an informal alliance maintained by Iran that preaches the destruction of the State of Israel.
FIRS MAKSAD, Director for the Middle East and North Eurasia Group Africa, told the The New York Times that the strategy of decades of Tehran seems destroyed in a year and a half of conflict within Gaza but, especially, with the hard blow thrown into his own terrain.
“What we are witnessing now in the region is nothing more than the collapse of Iran’s decades strategy and its ability to project influence,” said the expert.
