The day after the Gaza War, Hezbollah opened the first support front, known as the “Northern Front,” and days later, the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) in Yemen joined the bandwagon. The two fronts increased the toll of the war on Israel’s army and economy, making it more costly and geographically broader.
Hezbollah focused its attacks on Israeli army camps, surveillance and espionage equipment in the settlements adjacent to Lebanon’s southern border and army camps, and expanded them according to its reading of the requirements of the war, its balances and calculations. These calculations included the bombing of Israeli settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan adjacent to South Lebanon and northern occupied Palestine with multi-range missiles.
Perhaps the most important paradox of the Northern Front is the imbalance in disclosing human and material losses as a result of military operations, as Hezbollah was mourning its martyrs and revealing their identities, while Israel was content with a list that did not exceed 20 people, between civilians and military personnel.
The Houthi operations in the Red Sea led to negative impacts on the work of Israeli ports, and some of them became completely empty of ships. They announced that their operations in the Red Sea would continue in support of the Palestinian people and “until food and medicine are allowed to enter the people of Gaza,” and the group did not change its position despite the Israeli warplanes targeting Hodeidah port and its facilities twice.
