Press sources reported that "Israeli forces have begun to cordon off Ali Al-Taher Hill, amid information indicating that there are about 40 Hezbollah fighters, some of whom are from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, trapped there. Information indicates that the party has rejected all formulas related to opening a safe passage for it to evacuate the military facility and hand it over to the army in exchange for withdrawing weapons from it." According to the newspaper, “tightening the cordon around the military facility in Ali al-Taher means cutting off all military and food supply routes to the fighters there, amid information indicating that it is no longer possible to deliver food, water, or even weapons to the military facility. This may be related to two scenarios: either the Israelis seek to carry out a commando operation through special forces to storm the facility, or carry out a major military operation towards it, but that means mobilizing a large number of forces and entering into a battle with heavy losses, especially since the party takes the decision to wage a fierce war to prevent the fall of The facility, which has become of multi-faceted importance, firstly due to the fighters present in it, and secondly due to its strategic location, as it overlooks the towns of Kafrman and Nabatieh, and this means the fall of Nabatieh militarily. Thirdly, the fall of Ali al-Taher means that Hezbollah’s second line of defense will be subjected to a major blow, so that the Israeli focus will shift to the third line of defense, which extends between the Western Bekaa, Jabal al-Rayhan and Iqlim al-Tuffah. I have heard the Israelis repeatedly that they want to control these strategic hills that contain huge military sites.