A Hezbollah Terrorist’s Despair

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 1, 2025

A Hezbollah terrorist not very long ago revealed the extent of demoralization in the group, in an interview he gave to the Israeli broadcaster N12. More on his cri de coeur can be found here: “Majority of Hezbollah terrorists ‘work with Israel,’ Lebanese operative claims in N12 interview,” by Fraidy Moser, Jerusalem Post, December 25, 2025:

Israel has infiltrated Hezbollah so deeply to the extent that 70% of its terrorists are “working with Israel,” an anonymous terrorist in the Lebanese terrorist organization’s military wing claimed in an interview with N12 published on Thursday.

“We fear Israel will eliminate us, but it turns out that 70% of Hezbollah operatives work with Israel. Israel knows the name of every child here, their father, and their sister,” he said. “Israel knows more about us than we know about ourselves.

“We still haven’t understood how Israel penetrates us this way,” N12 quoted the operative as saying.

When asked how he thinks the information reaches Israel, he replied, “I don’t know. We have a significant intelligence gap. I suspect that some senior officials are double agents. We don’t know. We wait every day for [IDF Arabic Spokesman Avichai Adraee] to speak out so we know what to do.”

The interview was held near Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, N12 said, near a village where the Hezbollah operative resides. The operative’s house was destroyed in fighting with Israeli forces last year. Despite that, he said he would be willing to have his weapons taken away.

“If [the Lebanese government] takes our weapons away and returns us to our homes and lands, I think, as far as I’m concerned, that is what needs to be done,” he told N12. He argued that Hezbollah had failed to protect both Lebanese and Palestinian land.an land.

The IDF has battered Hezbollah so relentlessly that it can no longer withstand even the once-scorned Lebanese National Army that has been attacking its bases south of the Litani River. Israeli attacks have reduced its once-vast arsenal of missiles and rockets, some 150,000 of them, to 20% of its pre-war size. Israel assassinated its charismatic leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as well as his successor, Hashem Safieddine. The IDF has killed thousands of its fighters. And the “exploding pagers” wounded at least 3,000 Hezbollah fighters so severely that they lost hands, eyes, and other body parts, that they will never fight again. With the change of regime in Syria, Hezbollah can no longer be resupplied with weapons from Iran. And this man insists that he, and many of his fellows, are convinced that 70% of Hezbollah operatives “work with Israel.” No wonder he is demoralized.

The demoralization, even despair, of Hezbollah operatives continues. The terror group’s leaders have now demanded that Iran send it $2 billion, twice what the Iranians had agreed to provide. This demand has shocked the Iranians. It comes at a time when Iran’s economy continues to crater.  Ordinary Iranians are suffering, and in no mood to give more money to Hezbollah to rebuild its arsenal of weapons and infrastructure that Israel has destroyed. For what, they now wonder, will prevent the IDF from doing it again?

Iran is enduring the worst drought in its history. Iran’s president has said that as a result of this drought, the ten million people in Tehran may have to move to a new locale. Electricity blackouts are a daily occurrence throughout Iran. The Iranian rial has sunk to a historic low. Not only will Iran refuse to accede to Hezbollah’s request for $2 billion, but the Iranians will now think twice about sending any more money into the bottomless pit of a grasping Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is demoralized not only by the loss of 80% of its arsenal of missiles and rockets, and of the destruction both of its command-and-control centers, and military outposts, and by the assassination of its leaders, and the killing of thousands of its operatives, and the severe wounding of thousands more by those exploding pagers, and by insufficient funding from Iran. Now not only the IDF attacks Hezbollah wherever it tries to hold onto a pre-existing outpost, or to build a new one, in the area between the Litani River and the Israeli border, but also the newly emboldened Lebanese National Army, supplied earlier this year with American weapons.

On top of all that, Hezbollah operatives are convinced that Israel has agents throughout the terror group’s ranks, and that, as this Hezbollah member says, it “knows more about us than we know ourselves.”

This Hezbollah terrorist says he is ready to turn in his weapons and return home: “Why do I need the weapons that caused me to live in hunger? If they let me live a normal life with dignity, in my home and my land, with my family, and we return to what we were before the war, then I’m willing to have our weapons taken away.” And he says that 60% of his fellows feel the same way.