It should be noted that while the operating domain of Hezbollah and Hamas overlap, they are not the same. They are fundamentally different organizations that interoperate with a common goal in a shared region.
Hamas is a resistance movement to the core, it has widespread support in its jurisdiction, and requires a relatively high level of autonomy due to the immense logistical and social challenges imposed by a land, sea, and air blockade that prevent both large scale mobilization and organization. In just the last 2 days, over 400 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip alone. Even if Iran wanted, it is very difficult to smuggle in that many rockets under a total land, sea, and air blockade. The solution is a tech transfer from Iran to Hamas, where Hamas gains the knowledge and expertise from Iran with certain personnel who oversee the conversion of certain dual use technologies into resources that can be used to build rockets independently and with a level of sufficiency such that little, if anything has to be smuggled in. This tactic has made Hamas, an extremely effective, potent, resilient, and agile fighting force that can adapt quickly and rapidly to a myriad of internal and external challenges. Thus Hamas is not a puppet of Iran as most people widely assume and operates with a relatively high level of autonomy as a people led movement, given the fact that Iran and Hamas de facto share the same inherent goals even if such is not explicitly communicated to the other.
In contrast to Hamas, Hezbollah is a top run organization, with the main power structure hierarchy resting at the top, with certain directives and initiatives that have to be executed in a wider framework of time. Unlike Hamas, Hezbollah plays the long game, one of the signatures of Iranian strategic doctrine. This is mainly due to the fact that Hezbollah as an insurgent force is not in a daily struggle for survival compared to the likes of Hamas in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, where every day is a battle, and even a minute retaliation cannot go unanswered. Hezbollah, as an entity based in Lebanon has certain advantages that afford it a stronger ability to make strategic decisions instead of impulse decisions that are forced upon them. Lebanon does not deal with the daily strikes or clashes that occur in disputed territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. As a sovereign state, Lebanon is not currently under occupation, and when it was, Hezbollah was the force that pushed adversaries out. In stark contrast to Hamas, Hezbollah as an insurgency is enforcing the cease-fire with Israel to maintain an acceptable level of stability due to the fact that such a setup is ideal between 2 sovereign states. On the other hand, Hamas is most effective when it is the most destabilizing to Israel because its existence as a resistance force inside an occupying force requires making the cost of maintaining the status quo of settlement occupation to be so high that is prohibitively unacceptable for Israelis. Hence, Hamas does not have a limit of what is considered to be too radical or too extreme because more instability favors Hamas. Hezbollah does have such a threshold of what is considered 'too extreme' and this is reflected in their actions as a relatively rational actor as proxies go. Hezbollah is a lot more cold and calculated than Hamas due a variety of factors, not the least of which is the lack of a land, sea, and air blockade, as well as the ability to directly transfer resources from Iran to Hezbollah. As a result of this, Iranian strategic doctrine is woven much deeper into the fabric of Hezbollah as it has a much greater input financially, militarily, technologically, strategically, and directly. Intelligence sharing occurs at a much higher level in Hezbollah due to the fact that Hamas is de facto required to be somewhat autonomous in a rapidly evolving conflict zone, whereas Hezbollah is most effective as a strategic player that can coordinate with the likes of Iran at the highest levels for maximum effect. One of the results of that is that Hezbollah has been provided with missiles directly sourced from IRGC's own missile arsenal and which are highly dangerous for an adversary like Israel facing a non-state actor which normally would not have access to such lethal weapons, or the technological expertise to develop them. Hezbollah has both, as well as a strategic doctrine that is not only credible but whose effectiveness has been demonstrated on the battlefield. As such, weapons of the caliber in Hezbollah's arsenal have the ability to cause extraordinary damage and cannot be used as lightly or casually as what Hamas has in their arsenal simply due to the fact that any action Hezbollah takes must be so resolute that any response from Israel will not be sufficient to deter Hezbollah. There is a tendency of many to underestimate Hezbollah because they do not demonstrate their true firepower as often as their counterparts like the Houthis, Hamas, or the PMF. However, neither Hamas or the PMF has the caliber of precision missiles that Hezbollah has. The Houthis do have advanced ballistic missile technology that equals or surpasses what Hezbollah has, but the Houthis also have to use long range precision missiles to demonstrate credible deterrence against the Saudis because Yemen is hit with daily airstrikes whereas Lebanon is not. Should Lebanon be hit with daily airstrikes, Hezbollah will exercise their missile capability equalling the Houthis as strong retaliation will impose severe costs on the adversary.
Might be reloading Iron Dome .... Another barrage on Ashkelon moments ago .... Every rocket is now getting through:
Yeah I heard Iron Dome is either not working properly or just can't keep up.
Sucks to be them
