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At least eight Israeli troops were killed by Hezbollah on October 2 as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attempted to make its first serious push into southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah announced in separate statements that its fighters targeted Israeli troops who advanced towards the towns of Odaisseh, Maroun al-Ras, Yaroun and Kfarkela. Later, the IDF admitted that five troops from the Egoz Commando Unit, two from the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit and one from the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit were killed.
The five Egoz commandos, including a team commander, and the Yahalom engineer were all killed during a gun battle with Hezbollah fighters, according to the IDF, which said that another officer and four soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident.
The military also said that two soldiers of the Golani recon unit were killed in a separate incident, in which another soldier was seriously wounded. In a third incident, a combat medic with the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion was seriously wounded, per the military.
The Lebanese military said in a statement that Israeli troops advanced some 400 meters into Lebanon before withdrawing.
Hezbollah announced other attacks against the IDF. The group shelled several gatherings along the Lebanese border, struck a group of troops between Odaisseh and the site of Misgav Am, attacked an artillery position near the settlement of Neve Ziv and destroyed three Merkava main battle tanks near Maroun al-Ras using guided missiles.
While the IDF has announced the death of eight troops so far. Sky News Arabia, citing Israeli security sources, reported that at least 14 were killed. Dozens others were reportedly killed.
The clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah and its allies launching near-daily attacks in support of the Palestinian enclave. Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon starting from September 17 and on September 27 it assassinated the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nassrallah. The IDF officially announced the launch of a ground operation in Lebanon on September 30.
Overall, the confrontation between Hezbollah and IDF has so far resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 30 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, at least 1,642 people have been killed, including more than 500 members of Hezbollah.
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reports from independent western media outlets are saying that the idf have suffered serious casualty numbers during their invasion of southern lebanon with some 14 idf members dead. scores of others injured in short the jews are talking a serious beating in their ground operations in southern lebanon in recent hours
this is just at the gates of southern lebanon and occupied north palestine.
i wish hezbollah could drown them in a little deep before the mass slaughter.
thats because they came face to face with men and not children.
they look lost, “israel” has no purpose. the us and israel don’t know what they’re doing anymore.
did they ever? i mean aside from sowing chaos in the region and trying benefit from it? it seems like it’s all just a big scam on american taxpayers. in the end, all they did was benefit the rich by taking from the poor. that’s their only achievement. the same poor people that the whole system depended on and now they basically rug pulled themselves.
satanic zionist filth.
satanic zionist flith must be destroyed!
its all for good! thank you
don’t know why the hezbollah isn’t hitting those helicopters.
because they are in rear and stay there only a couple of minutes…
because the assassination of their leadership has eliminated resistance to the jewish supremacist terror state in palestine.
karma—well shit happens not only in the kiddie killers’ diapers.
zionist subhumans are not good at fighting hezbollah.
or hamas but gaza allows limited options for guerrilla warfare. southern lebanon will be the death of the idf. this will be a limited incursion. looks like the buffer zone will continue to be northern occupied palestine not south lebanon.