Wednesday, August 1, 2007
True or not? Just because one officer says so doesn't make it so... Of course, you knew there was a reason for the concerted effort to force a cease-fire, reasons having little to do with civilian casualties -- something Hizballah and their allies had little care for -- so the story is plausible
JPost: Hizbullah officer: We would've given up
In the interview, the unnamed officer said Hizbullah gunmen would have surrendered if the fighting last summer had continued for another 10 days...
...The officer shown on Channel 10 said the organization's gunmen had been running low on food and water and facing rapidly diminishing arms supplies.
The officer also said that many Hizbullah commanders were ordered to hide before the war started, and that the gunmen who remained were forced to fire Katyusha rockets from inside urban populations because of the IDF's efficiency in destroying launchers minutes after a launch had been detected.
He said that when the gunmen relocated to cities and villages, they knew innocent civilians would be hurt as a consequence.
The quick arrival of IAF jets at rocket-launch sites, sometimes only four to five minutes after a Katyusha was fired, "surprised" Hizbullah, the officer said.
