On April 8, it was reported that the Lebanese army found a launcher and two rockets abandoned in one of the orchards in the area of Qlaileh, Tyre governorate. The Lebanese army, through soldiers from its engineering battalion, handled the neutralization and disposal of the launcher and rockets and found no one involved in the incident. The engineering battalion belongs to the Lebanese army’s Support Brigade, which is an independent brigade, one of the 14 brigades in the Lebanese army. This is a known rocket launching area, from which Palestinian terrorist operatives (usually belonging to the Hamas branch in Lebanon), from the refugee camps in Tyre, also launch. On the other hand, based on the photo of the launcher in this case (if it is authentic), it is likely a launcher belonging to Hezbollah.
As of this writing, it is not possible to assess how effective the Lebanese Army’s operations are in preventing Hezbollah activity in southern Lebanon in general and in removing and neutralizing Hezbollah’s weapons in particular. There are not many publications about this that can be described as reliable, and in addition, the intensity of IDF attacks against Hezbollah activity continues.
