After four months of accumulating tactical and strategic achievements, the Lebanese Islamic Resistance's behavior confirms the keenness of its leadership to deprive the Zionist enemy of restoring the prestige of deterrence.

Therefore, the shooting down of the “Zik-Hermes 450 drone,” which has advanced maneuvering and targeting capabilities, on February 26, is an objective response to the enemy’s threats.  The question that pops up is: Does the new escalation and the resistance’s improvement in the quality of its goals translate into a further move towards a comprehensive war?

Indeed, the Zionist arrogance relies mainly on its alleged “air superiority.”  Without a doubt, the enemy’s leadership is suffering from the immense crack in its image of deterrence and prestige that all the shameless American and Western support have failed to restore.  Consequently, this means that it will - once again – fail to convince more than 100 herds of colonial settlers to return to the occupied Palestinian territories in the north, as these occupiers have lost a sense of security as their “army” is no longer in the position of dictating the equations.

The deranged Zionist reaction - by encroaching on the Lebanese interior, all the way to the vicinity of the city of Baalbek – confirmed their clear anxiety and their awareness of the repercussions of the fall of the so-called “strongest air force in the Middle East,” which they consider to be the pillar of the current battle, in addition to the fact that the mission of the “ZEK-Hermes 450” drone is to carry out blatant assassinations in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, etc. as it is characterized by a shortening of the time period between intelligence detection and operational targeting.

At a time when the enemy is trying - through the field and intimidating messages - to curb the pro-resistance fronts supporting the Gaza resistance, the downing of the “ZIK-Hermes 450” drone with a surface-to-air missile further confirms the extent of the resistance’s operational ability to penetrate the technological system that provided the Zionist Air Force with a large degree of immunity after it had long bet that it was able to impose air dominance, which gave it a free hand in targeting even if the war ended, especially taking into consideration the recent threats from Yoav Galant – the so-called Zionist “defense” minister – regarding the continuation of the aggression against Lebanon even if the Gaza front calms down.

These escalatory reactions also reveal the enemy’s fear that Hezbollah will succeed in imposing a real “security belt” in the northern occupied Palestinian territories. This is what prompted Avigdor Lieberman, the former “defense” minister, to warn that Hezbollah is “a real strategic threat. If we do not change the equation [Deterrence], there will be no (residents) left in the north.”

Moreover, such qualitative strike draws attention to the resistance’s insistence on a deliberate improvement in operations whenever the enemy transgresses the rules of confrontation, and reveals a small part of its advanced military capabilities that the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has repeatedly referred to, the majority of which is still kept secret.

Therefore, the aim of the hostile Zionist regime’s  attack on Baalbek is to send a message that it is ready to exceed more dangerous limits, but it does not yet indicate a descent into all-out war, as stated by Major General Yaakov Amidror, the former head of the so-called “Israeli National Security Council.”  Pointing out that “both parties attack the other when they see that they have crossed the square within which the battle is taking place,” stressing that it would be foolish to start a war on Lebanon “because the matter is related to the fate of (the state),” warning of “the horror of war if it breaks out.”

According to many analysts, if a truce or permanent ceasefire is reached in Gaza, Hezbollah will adhere to it, but if the enemy decides to continue its attacks on Lebanon, it will be on the lookout.  Until now, despite the high level of field turmoil, the possibility of an all-out war still being ruled out, taking into account that the presence of reckless Zionist leadership necessitates being prepared for all scenarios.