{"id":792605,"date":"2026-05-13T04:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/792605\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:15:15","slug":"hezbollah-planning-to-occupy-beirut-as-internal-pressure-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/792605\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah planning to occupy Beirut as internal pressure builds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hezbollah<\/a> has created a systematic action plan to occupy Beirut in order to push out pragmatic elements, Walla learned on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the defense establishment is recognizing increasing pressure on Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem<\/a>, who claimed that Israel is preparing for a move to take over large areas in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Over the past two days, Northern Command Commander Major General Rafi Milo presented to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir significant progress<\/a> in maneuvering and the pace of destroying terrorist infrastructure in dozens of Lebanese villages in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

According to sources in the security establishment, Hezbollah is convinced that Israel is plotting a move to divide Lebanon, within the framework of which, in Hezbollah’s view, the Lebanese state<\/a> will lose large areas of territory.<\/p>\n

This imaginary scenario, in Hezbollah’s eyes, increases the pressure on Qassem, who is forced to divide fighting forces between Beirut, southern Lebanon, and the Beqaa Valley.<\/p>\n

According to Israeli estimates, the more the IDF intensifies its attacks, the more pressure will fall on Qassem.<\/p>\n

Walla learned that, against the backdrop of the growing criticism in Lebanon against the terrorist organization, such as that of the Lebanese president, the prime minister, and the speaker of parliament, Hezbollah has a systematic plan of action to occupy the city of Beirut and push back the pragmatic forces that support rapprochement with the West and normalization with Israel.<\/p>\n

According to security sources, the Iranian regime has dramatically reduced the transfer of funds to Lebanon. Combined with the painful blows inflicted by the IDF on Hezbollah’s individuals and economic assets, including banks, money changers, and gas stations, Hezbollah is in one of its most difficult periods economically.<\/p>\n

In addition, it is having difficulty supporting hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians who fled dozens of villages under IDF control, and those who abandoned their homes for fear of the expansion of the fighting zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hezbollah has created a systematic action plan to occupy Beirut in order to push out pragmatic elements, Walla…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":792606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51259,4783,4784,99,13192,99961,50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-792605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-beirut","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-idf","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-naim-qassem","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116565332988342210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}