Hezbollah defeats Zionist regime in 33 Days War

Compiled by: Syed Ali Shahbaz
6 solar years ago, on this day in 2006 AD, the illegal Zionist entity launched a brutal war on Lebanon on the pretext of capture of two Israeli soldiers by the legendry anti-terrorist movement, the Hezbollah. The 33-day invasion, supported by the US and certain Arab reactionary regimes, was defeated by the Islamic Resistance, which shattered the myth of invincibility of Israel. The cowardly Zionist entity, however, attacked civilian areas, martyring a total of 1,200 men, women and children, in addition to destroying part of the infrastructure of southern Lebanon. Thanks to the people’s support for the Hezbollah, which retaliated with a steady barrage of rockets on Israel that took a heavy toll of life, and the Zionists were forced to halt the war and withdraw in a humiliating manner.
On July 16, 2008, Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement, the Hezbollah, in another victory, in return for the handover of the bodies of two Zionist occupation soldiers, forced Israel to release five Lebanese prisoners and the bodies of nearly 200 Lebanese martyrs. The exchange of bodies and captives took place following indirect negotiations, with the mediation of Germany. It is worth noting that Zionist spy agencies did not know till the exchange that the two Zionist soldiers had been killed in the initial moments of Israel’s 33-day war on Hezbollah. Among the liberated Lebanese, were individuals from other groups, such as Samir Qantar, who spent almost thirty years in Zionist dungeons.
Following the issuance of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and its acceptance by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Zionist entity, Israel's 33-day war ended. The war was a US-Zionist plot, backed by reactionary Arab states, to destroy Lebanon's legendry anti-terrorist movement, the Hezbollah. But people's resistance, coupled with the military prowess of the Hezbollah, shattered the myth of military invincibility of Israel with tanks, ships and aircraft reduced to junk. Over 4,000 missiles fired into occupied Palestine by the Hezbollah endeared the movement and its dynamic leader, Seyyed Hassan Nasrollah, to Arab and other Muslims worldwide, including conscientious thinkers in the West.