Only in some fanboy fantasy they won anything.
Here are actual Statistics:
Israel Defense Forces:
121 killed
(including 2 captured soldiers)
628 wounded[14] | Hezbollah militia:
Dead:
250 (Hezbollah claim)
Wounded:
1,500 (Lebanese officials' est.)[16]
Captured: 4 fighters
Amal militia: 17 dead
LCP militia: 12 dead
PFLP-GC militia: 2 dead
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: ~6–9 dead (Lebanese officials' est.)
Lebanese Army and Police Forces: 43 dead |
Israeli civilians:
44 dead
33 seriously wounded
68 moderately wounded
1,388 lightly wounded | Lebanese citizens (combatants included):
1,191–1,300 dead
4,409 injured |
Financial repercussions
The fighting resulted in a huge financial setback for Lebanon, with an official estimate of a fall in growth from +6% to 2% and US$5 Billion (22% of GDP)[334] in direct and indirect costs, while the cost for Israel was estimated at US$3.5 billion.[335] Indirect costs to Israel include a cut in growth by 0.9%.[336] and the cost to tourism was estimated at 0.4% of Israel's GDP in the following year.[337] According to one analyst in the Associated Press, the main casualty was the fragile unity between Lebanon's sectarian and political groups,[338] though an Asia Times piece points to Free Patriotic Movement head Michel Aoun's support for Hezbollah and provision of housing for Shi'a refugees as evidence for strengthened relations.
Winograd Commission Report
According to the Winograd Commission Report, the Second Lebanon W
ar was regarded as a "missed opportunity" and that "Israel initiated a long war, which ended without a defined military victory". The report continued to state that "a semi-military organization of a few thousand men resisted, for a few weeks, the strongest army in the Middle East, which enjoyed full air superiority and size and technology advantages". Furthermore, Hezbollah's rocket attacks continued throughout the war and the IDF did not provide an effective response to it. Following a long period of using standoff firepower and limited ground activities,
the IDF launched a large-scale ground offensive close to the UN Security Council's resolution which imposed a cease-fire. "This offensive did not result in military gains and was not completed".
Later in the Report, the Commission stated that "[a] decision [was] made in the night of 12 July to react (to the capturing) with immediate and substantive military action and to set... ambitious goals."
This decision had immediate repercussions in that subsequent decisions were limited mainly to a choice between a) "a short, painful and unexpected blow on Hezbollah" and b) "to bring about a significant change of the reality in the South of Lebanon with a large ground operation,[occupying]...the South of Lebanon and 'cleaning' it of Hezbollah". "The fact Israel went to war before it decided which option to select and without an exit strategy, all these constituted serious failures of the decision making process."
As for achievements, the Commission reported that "SC resolution 1701, and the fact that it was adopted unanimously, were an achievement for Israel."
And now the truth by nobody other than Grand Slam Nasurllah!
Hezbollah leader Nasrallah regrets war - World - CBC News
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The financial and other losses are enormously high on Lebanese side and all of this with IDF only using their standoff fire power and without putting any of their actual warplans into action yet somebody things they won jack!
I am a believer of ignorance but you are setting new heights of incompetence.
