Click to see full-size image. By Al-Manar TV correspondent Ali Shoeib.
Hezbollah continues to launch attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), ignoring efforts by the United States to end the clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
On January 18, the group said in four separate statements that its fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli troops in the Adamit barracks and shelled the military sites of Birkat Risha, al-Malikiyah and al-Sammaqa. No casualties were reported by Hebrew media.
The attacks were carried out “to support the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance,” Hezbollah noted in its statements.
In response to the attack, the IDF said its fighter jets attacked targets of Hezbollah in the town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon.
It also said that troops struck areas in the towns of Kafr Kila and Marjaayoun, presumably to foil planned Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel.
Lebanese media confirmed that several areas in southern Lebanon were hit by air and artillery strikes, but didn’t report any casualties. Ali Shoeib, a correspondent for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV, shared videos on X showing Israeli fighter jets and combat drones flying over southerner Lebanon.
The clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in Gaza, with Hezbollah and its allies carrying out attacks in support of the Strip.
The U.S. is currently making efforts to de-escalate tensions on the border, most likely to allow Israel to focus on its war in Gaza.
Citing a senior Lebanese official, Reuters reported that Hezbollah has rebuffed Washington’s initial ideas for cooling clashes with Israel, such as pulling its fighters further from the border, but remains open to diplomacy to avoid a ruinous war.
“Hezbollah is ready to listen,” a senior Lebanese official familiar with Hezbollah’s thinking said, while emphasizing that the group saw the ideas presented by U.S. negotiator Amos Hochstein on a visit to Beirut last week as “unrealistic.”
Hezbollah’s position is that it will continue to launch cross-border attacks against the IDF until there is a full ceasefire in Gaza.
As of January 18, the border clashes have resulted in six civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of nine IDF soldiers. On the Lebanese side, more than 200 have been killed. The toll includes 151 Hezbollah fighters, 14 of whom were killed in Syria, 26 Palestinians, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 24 civilians.
if the u.s government is trying to de escalate anything it means they aren’t doing well. those hypocrites would never de escalate something simply to promote peace. please continue on hezbollah.
so the us terrorists is telling hisbollah to stop bombing israhell but they doing nothing to stop israhell from bombing gaza thats interesting
how dare those sandal-wearing desert people defy the mighty america?
i mean i wont go there to stop them, as i rather have buttsex with jens holm, my husband. but still, how dare they?
anyway, i am chickening out like the us troops in iraq.
yeeehaaaw! 🗽🐖🗽🐖
“ignores u.s. efforts to de-escalate”. translated as: they are done listening to lies and don’t even care about the noises from the mouth or strung together words they write.
no wonder the israelis reported no causalities, it is well know the can be killed by artillery, rockets, fire and bullets! lol
de-escalte is doublespeak for escalate.
who in the world is that stupid to believe yanquis anymore?
the us can stop zionists… why are they talking with hezbollah? lol
the level of news writing in this article is likened to a student of grade 1 section parrot
the bunker shlomo clown is here again using my name. my position is constant, the evil khazar abomination nesting like vipers in apartheid, occupied palestine must be destroyed and of course destroyed it will be when the ussan golem is finally lying face down in its own puke in $lumville. that day approacheth. meanwhile onward with the gallant hezbollah, the fun loving houthis and the heroes of hamas who keep whacking and stacking diaper head scum.
definitions worth to always remember: 1) scum = hamas; 2) nazis = islam; 3) abomination = moslems; 4) tunnel rats = hamassholes; 5) slumville = gaza metro
the idf diaper head shlomos are crowding the crypt in apartheid, occupied palestine as nitay aka nut’nyahoo hides behind the piles of dead from idf mommies with terror and vengeance in their hearts. palestine will be freed or the chosenite entity will never again sleep in peace. first we need to see the head of the beast in chief on a spike and the shlomos down on their knees begging for humanity’s forgiveness. meanwhile they squirm like maggots in holland.