{"id":30732,"date":"2026-10-29T02:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=30732"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:56:41","slug":"hezbollah-and-the-future-prospects-abdul-sattar-al-jabri-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/hezbollah-and-the-future-prospects-abdul-sattar-al-jabri-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah and the Future Prospects \u2013 Abdul Sattar Al-Jabri 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

**Episode Five \u2013 Al\u2011Aqsa Flood and the Unity of the Fronts**<\/h4>\n

When **Operation Al\u2011Aqsa Flood** began, the term **\u201cUnity of the Fronts\u201d** became widely used. Some commentators who focus on the affairs of the \u201caxis of resistance\u201d explained it as meaning that each arena of resistance supports the others with whatever capabilities it possesses. Therefore, when the **Izz al\u2011Din al\u2011Qassam Brigades** carried out their operation on **7 October**, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansar Allah in Yemen, the Iraqi resistance factions, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Syrian Arab Republic all declared their full support for the Palestinian cause.<\/h4>\n

Each arena then acted according to what it was able to do. Hezbollah engaged in military operations using rockets, mortars, and Katyusha rockets against Israeli positions in the northern part of the occupied territories. **Ansar Allah** prevented ships heading toward Israel or affiliated with it from sailing through the **Red Sea**, and later entered the confrontation by launching missile strikes toward Israel.<\/h4>\n

The Iraqi factions targeted sites associated with Israel using drones and missiles. Iran acted mainly on the political level, in addition to its earlier role in building the military capabilities of the resistance network and strengthening its combat effectiveness, as well as sending military advisers to Syria and Lebanon.<\/h4>\n

Iran also launched missile and drone strikes twice toward Israeli territory\u2014first in response to the Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in **Damascus**, and later in response to Israeli attacks targeting Iranian facilities.<\/h4>\n

It can be said that the **Middle East witnessed an intense confrontation between three main blocs**:
\n– the **Axis of Resistance**,
\n– the **Israeli\u2013American\u2013Western axis**,
\n– and the **Arab\u2013Turkish axis**.<\/h4>\n

The **Axis of Resistance** stood\u2014within its capabilities\u2014alongside the fighters in Gaza and supported them as much as possible. This axis had previously contributed to transforming Palestinian resistance from a situation of near\u2011empty hands and resistance limited largely to stones and demonstrations into an armed struggle that included rockets, mortars, and explosive devices.<\/h4>\n

Resistance movements also used their military capabilities to support the Palestinian resistance and made significant sacrifices in doing so. Strikes were carried out almost daily by Iraqi factions, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Ansar Allah in Yemen. Notably, the Syrian government did not use its territory to launch attacks against Israel, limiting itself largely to political support while serving as an important transit route for weapons and supplies reaching Hezbollah.<\/h4>\n

As for the **American\u2013Western axis**, it openly adopted the defense of Israel. As soon as Operation Al\u2011Aqsa Flood began, **U.S. and British aircraft carriers** sailed toward the coasts of Palestine in support of Israel and as a warning to Hezbollah and the Syrian government against launching broader attacks on territories controlled by Israel, as well as to prevent any internal collapse within Israeli forces.<\/h4>\n

Throughout the war that Israel waged in **Gaza and southern Lebanon**, and during the air and drone strikes carried out against **Syria, Iraq, and Yemen**, Western and American arms supplies to Israel continued without interruption. U.S. and British naval forces were also deployed in nearby waters to protect shipping routes from attacks by **Ansar Allah**.<\/h4>\n

In addition, military operations were conducted against Ansar Allah in Yemen. The United States and several European countries also deployed naval forces to help intercept Iranian missile and drone attacks directed toward Israel.<\/h4>\n

As for the **Arab\u2013Turkish axis**, it provided logistical support to Israel. **Turkey** increased its commercial exchanges with Israel, while some **Gulf states** opened land routes to transport goods to Israel after Houthi forces disrupted maritime routes in the Red Sea and Iraqi resistance actions affected ports on the Mediterranean.<\/h4>\n

Goods from **Jordan** also continued to flow toward Israel, and the Jordanian air force participated in defensive operations by intercepting Iranian missiles and drones that passed through Jordanian airspace.<\/h4>\n

From this overview, it appears that three main arenas developed and evolved over the four decades following the **1979 Iranian Revolution**, eventually becoming clearly defined after the events of **7 October**. These included the **resistance front**, which lost Syria as a central member after the fall of the Assad government and its shift away from that alignment; the **American\u2013Western\u2013Israeli military axis**; and a **logistical support axis involving Arab and Turkish actors** that provided assistance to the American\u2011Western\u2011Israeli bloc.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

**Episode Five \u2013 Al\u2011Aqsa Flood and the Unity of the Fronts** When **Operation Al\u2011Aqsa Flood** began, the term **\u201cUnity of the Fronts\u201d** became widely used. Some commentators who focus on the affairs of the \u201caxis of resistance\u201d explained it as meaning that each arena of resistance supports the others with whatever capabilities it possesses. Therefore, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-wisdom-anecdotes-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30733,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732\/revisions\/30733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}