Maariv: The illusion of a "great historical victory" led to strategic defeat

Pars Today – The Zionist newspaper "Maariv," acknowledging the failure of the Israeli regime to achieve its goals through waging war in the region, has written that the initial notion of achieving a "great historical victory" ended in strategic defeat.

According to Pars Today, citing IRNA, the Zionist newspaper Maariv admitted: "What initially seemed like a 'massive and historic victory' has turned into a dead end that smells of strategic defeat."

Referring to the situation of the battle on the southern Lebanon front in light of Hezbollah's powerful drone and missile response and the attacks of resistance fighters on Zionist settlements in northern occupied Palestine, the newspaper wrote: "It seems that the northern region (of occupied Palestine) has slipped out of Israel's control, and the (Zionist) residents of the border area with Lebanon are paying the price of both ongoing security threats and economic attrition."

The Zionist newspaper Maariv deemed the Israeli regime army's decision to expand ground operations in southern Lebanon to counter Hezbollah's effective drone attacks as useless, writing: "These ground actions will not only not create a strategic change in the field situation but will also expose Israeli soldiers more to (Hezbollah's) attacks."

Previously, Barak Sari, a strategic advisor to the Zionist regime, had said that the Israeli regime is deeply mired in the quagmire of Lebanon.

He pointed to the erroneous assessment by the regime's security and military circles of the capability of Lebanon's Hezbollah and added: "There was celebration and talk that Hezbollah had suffered a strategic blow, but we are stuck in the quagmire (in southern Lebanon), and our soldiers are being targeted by (Hezbollah's) booby-trapped drones, resulting in death or injury."

He emphasized: "The northern borders (occupied Palestine with southern Lebanon) have become another full-fledged fiery front."