MIRACLE IN THE NORTH: How God stopped Hezbollah’s plan for a Second Holocaust
Watch an exclusive report of THE ROSENBERG REPORT from northern Israel to realize the magnitude of Hezbollah’s thwarted invasion preparations
What if the Hezbollah terrorist army had simultaneously invaded northern Israel from Lebanon on Oct. 7, 2023? ALL ISRAEL NEWS Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg raised this not-at-all-hypothetical question on THE ROSENBERG REPORT, his weekly show that airs on TBN.
In the latest episode, Rosenberg visited an IDF base in the north of the country, where Israeli military officials explained – and tangibly showed – just how close Israel came to a complete catastrophe on that day.
“I got a briefing today on 18,000 pieces of military hardware, weapons, machine guns, missiles, rocket launchers, all kinds of stuff that Israel captured from Hezbollah and even more was destroyed,” Rosenberg said.
“The Hezbollah plan was to invade northern Israel – to capture the whole Galilee region – and basically do to northern Israel what Hamas ended up doing in southern Israel, in the Gaza envelope.”
Lt.-Colonel Nadav Shoshani, who serves as an International Spokesman for the IDF, told Joel that what Hezbollah was planning was, in fact, a much bigger invasion of Israel than what Hamas was able accomplish on Oct. 7.
“They have planned to the last detail – to the shoelaces of the terrorist who needs to infiltrate Israel – all the details for a mass attack,” he said.
Shoshani noted that the Shia Lebanese terror group, that was still led by Hassan Nasrallah in 2023, had a greater force than Hamas and larger amounts of sophisticated weapons.
Additionally, he pointed out that Israel’s border with Lebanon is longer than the one with Gaza. All these could have been a disastrous recipe for a lethal attack that luckily didn’t materialize.
Shoshani showed Rosenberg and his team some Hezbollah vehicles with the capability to fire rockets.
“This pickup truck hides in a civilian house, comes out, fires 24 rockets, goes back in and reloads,” he explained.
When IDF troops entered the South of Lebanon, they found such trucks, ammunition, bunkers and tunnels all across the area and in almost every home.
“We call them ‘terror villages.’ Every second house had some sort of terror infrastructure in it,” Shoshani said.
He continued to describe one of the tunnels that Israeli troops discovered, about a mile away from Israeli northern communities.
“When we exploded it to destroy it – it was so big, that the magnitude (of the explosion) created an earthquake alert for the people in northern Israel. So, we're talking about a vast, system for them to attack Israel,” the military spokesperson noted.
One IDF career officer whose face had to be blurred on the show to protect his identity, admitted in his conversation with Rosenberg that even though Israeli Intelligence was aware of the invasion plan – the magnitude of Hezbollah’s preparations still surprised them.
“The amount of bunkers, the amount of tunnels that were close to the border, the role that the villages close to the border played in this invasion, even amazed us,” he said.
The officer had confirmed to Joel that Hezbollah had likely three times the number of weapons and supplies than the IDF had expected. Munitions that were discovered by Israeli troops bore the hallmarks of Iran, Russia and North Korea.
“What percentage of Hezbollah missiles and drones does the IDF estimate that it has destroyed at this point?” Rosenberg asked the IDF’s International Spokesperson.
Shoshani replied that the military estimated it had managed to destroy around 70-80 percent of Hezbollah’s stockpile.
“It still means they have a large amount,” he added. “They're going to try and rearm themselves and regroup, and what we're doing right now is preventing them from that. We're preventing Iran from rearming Hezbollah because we know that's something they want to do, and we're preventing them from coming back to this area… We have to make sure this threat does not return to our border.”
"But how confident can Israeli civilians now be that the very real, dangerous threat of a Hezbollah invasion has been completely dismantled?", Rosenberg wondered.
The IDF career officer whose identity cannot be revealed told him that he feels confident for two main reasons:
“The first is the lesson that we learned as the Israeli people. We learned a hard lesson that we need to take care of ourselves. We cannot allow anything of that sort to be on our borders,” said the officer.
“The second reason I feel confident is because of the work that we've been doing and we're still doing in southern Lebanon – village by village, house by house,” he stressed.
Rosenberg shared that the most chilling item found in Lebanese villages was an Arabic copy of ‘Mein Kampf’ – Adolf Hitler's book that contains his blueprint for taking over Europe and killing every Jew on the planet.
“This is (what) Hezbollah operatives were reading,” he said.
The finding led Joel to the belief that Hezbollah didn’t merely want to give Israel a “bloody nose” on command day, but rather was planning to execute a second Holocaust.
Fortunately, Hezbollah’s ‘command day’ never arrived.
But why?
“God really protected us from something horrific,” Rosenberg concluded. “All those weapons were designed to wipe out me, my family, my people, my country of Israel, and God prevented it from happening.”
Watch Joel Rosenberg’s full exclusive report from northern Israel on the TBN website.
THE ROSENBERG REPORT airs Thursday nights at 9 p.m. EST and Saturday nights at 10:00 p.m. EST – on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the most-watched Christian television network in the United States.
Tal Heinrich is a senior correspondent for both ALL ISRAEL NEWS and ALL ARAB NEWS. She is currently based in New York City. Tal also provides reports and analysis for Israeli Hebrew media Channel 14 News.
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