“If they take our weapons away and return us to our homes and lands, I think, as far as I’m concerned, that’s what needs to be done,” the Hezbollah insider said.
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.”
Hezbollah operative: ‘I would give up my weapons for a dignified life’
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.
People walk at a damaged site in Mays al-Jabal, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, February 19, 2025 (credit: REUTERS/Mohammed Yassin)
“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.
“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.”
The operative further claimed that 60% of Hezbollah operatives share the same sentiment.
“I see that everyone has the same opinion. We cannot say these things publicly, but this is what we think. What did these weapons contribute to us?” he added.
He went on to explain that Hezbollah’s secretary-general Naim Qassem, who succeeded Hassan Nasrallah following the latter’s death last year, is “very different” to his predecessor. “We do not understand him,” he told N12, referring to Qassem. If Nasrallah were still alive, the current situation would be very different.”
