The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday announced that five Israeli reserve soldiers were killed and 14 maimed in a battle with Hezbollah operatives in a southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...village on Saturday evening.
Bringing IDF’s toll in the ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon and during operations to 34, the slain troops were named as:
- Cpt. (res.) Rabbi Avraham Yosef Goldberg, 43, from Jerusalem
- Master Sgt. (res.) Gilad Elmaliach, 30, from Jerusalem.
- Cpt. (res.) Amit Chayut, 29, from Haifa.
- Maj. (res.) Eliav Amram Abitbol, 36, from Eitan.
- Sgt. Maj. (res.) Shaul Moyal, 47, from Karnei Shomron
The troops all served with the Alon Brigade’s 8207th Battalion. Goldberg was the battalion’s rabbi, Chayut was a platoon commander, and Abitbol was a deputy company commander. Among the 14 maimed soldiers, five were listed at death's door.
Three Hezbollah operatives were killed in the exchange of fire.
Further details of the battle were still under investigation, as the IDF pressed its campaign to push Hezbollah forces away from the border, in order to make it safe for tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from northern communities to return to their homes.
Also Sunday, the IDF released footage of a Hezbollah weapons bunker located by troops of the Golani Brigade in southern Lebanon. The military said the underground facility, hidden in a forested area, was used to store anti-tank missiles, machine guns, assault rifles, and mortars. The footage was released as the IDF said that fighter jets targeted several Hezbollah weapon manufacturing and maintenance sites in Beirut overnight, along with an arms depot.
The IDF issued evacuation orders for three buildings in two neighborhoods in the southern suburb of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh, ahead of the strikes. Lebanese state media reported an Israeli raid in Dahiyeh’s Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath neighborhoods shortly after the warnings were published.
Elsewhere in Lebanon, the military said on Sunday morning that the Israeli Air Force had killed some 70 Hezbollah operatives and hit around 120 sites belonging to the terror group over the past day in Lebanon. Among the targets was a site used by Hezbollah’s drone unit, and a cell of operatives from the unit, the IDF added.
The military also announced on Sunday that it killed the commander of Hezbollah’s Bint Jbeil region and his replacement within 24 hours. On Friday, the Hezbollah commander in charge of the Lebanese border village of Bint Jbeil, Ahmad Jaafar Matouq, was killed in a strike carried out by fighter jets, according to the IDF. A day later, the IDF says Matouq’s replacement, along with the commander of Hezbollah’s artillery forces in the area, were killed in a separate
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The strikes came after Hezbollah fired some 200 rockets and launched four drones at northern Israel on Saturday. The hostile aircraft triggered air raid sirens in the Upper and Western Galilee as well as the northern border cities and towns of Kiryat Shmona, Metula and Tel Hai, but no injuries were reported as the IDF intercepted all four drones.
In a statement, Hezbollah claimed it launched a drone attack against the Tel Nof air force base, south of Tel Aviv.
In one of the rocket barrages, 15 rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Western Galilee, with some intercepted while the rest hit open areas, the IDF said. There were no reports of injuries from the rocket fire, which sparked blazes at several locations in the north.
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The IDF releases new footage from the operations of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade in southern Lebanon.
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Death toll from Israeli strike on Lebanon's Sidon rises to five
[GEO.TV] At least five people were killed and 13 wounded on Sunday in an Israeli strike on Sidon (Saida) in southern Lebanon, the country's health ministry said in an updated toll.
Lebanese health ministry says at least 21 killed in Israeli airstrikes today
[IsraelTimes] The Lebanese health ministry says that at least 21 people were killed today in Israeli airstrikes on three different areas in southern Lebanon.
Nine people were killed and 38 wounded in a strike on Haret Saida, near the port city of Sidon, the ministry says, with at least seven others including a nurse and three rescuers killed in the southern village of Ain Baal and five in Burj al-Shemali.
The IDF has not commented on any individual airstrikes today.