They are out of the fight 1,500 Hezbollah fighters due to their injuries from last week’s blasts on communication devices, an unnamed official of the Shiite organization revealed, according to Reuters.

As he said, the fighters have been blinded or have their hands amputated.

Although this is a significant blow, it represents a very small part of the organization since in its report the US Congress mentioned 40,000 – 50,000 members of Hezbollah.

The group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed the group has 100,000 fighters.

Meanwhile, two of the sources familiar with Hezbollah’s operations said the group quickly appointed replacements after the death of Ibrahim Akil and other senior officials killed in last Friday’s airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

At the same time, the fighting is escalating. Israel killed another top Hezbollah official, Ibrahim Qubaisi, yesterday, Tuesday. For its part, Hezbollah has shown its ability to continue operations, firing hundreds of rockets at Israel in ever-deepening attacks.

Today, Wednesday, the attacks continue from both sides with Hezbollah carrying out its first rocket attack in Tel Aviv which was aimed at Mossad headquarters, according to the organization itself. In addition, at least 15 people were killed in today’s Israeli strikes.