Israel sold south Lebanon as a buffer zone; Hezbollah turned it into a drone range and left the IDF hiding under fishing nets. Right, so Hezbollah’s explosive drones are damaging seventy to eighty per cent of the Israeli army’s freedom of action inside their so-called security strip in south Lebanon. Seventy to eighty per cent of what Israel is trying to do by day in the very strip it occupied to prove it had the north under control. Daylight operations are being pushed into the night. Some activity is being cancelled altogether. Anti-drone kit is short enough that smart sights and shotguns are being handed out to individual soldiers in each company, as if the mighty army of miracle technology has reached the point where the solution is one bloke with a better gun and a prayer. Well it isn’t getting them very far. Break out your tiny violins folk ...