Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) intensified strikes on Lebanon on October 3 as its troops struggled to advance due to the fierce resistance of Hezbollah.
Overnight, the IDF said that it struck 200 targets in southern Lebanon, including buildings used by Hezbollah, fighters, weapon depots, observation posts and other infrastructure. The military alleged that over 60 fighters of the group were killed.
Other Israeli strikes were reported in the Beqaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and the southern Beirut suburbs of Dahieh with many civilians killed or wounded.
The IDF said that it struck Hezbollah intelligence and communications sites in Beirut. Members of the group’s intelligence division, surveillance equipment, headquarters and other infrastructure were targeted, according to the military.
From its side, Hezbollah said that its fighters clashed with Israeli troops attempting to advance in the direction of Fatima Gate as well as near the towns of Maroun al-Ras Yaroun. Several units were targeted with rockets, artillery and explosive devices.
The group also announced that it had shelled the gatherings and movements of the IDF in northern Israel and struck a Merkava main battle tank in the Natou’a. Hebrew media reported the launch of more than 70 rockets and multiple drones from Lebanon.
While the IDF has not yet acknowledged any losses, initial reports from Arab and Hebrew media indicate that at least four troops were killed.
In preparation for expanding ground operations in Lebanon, the IDF ordered civilians in an additional 25 towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate immediately. The order covered the town of Nabatieh, one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon. Nabatieh and several other villages on the list are north of the Litani River.
Separately, the Lebanese army said that a soldier was killed in an Israeli strike on a military post in southern Lebanon, adding that soldiers fired back at the source of the fire. The Lebanese Red Cross said that four of its medics were wounded in the same strike.
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 1,974 people have been killed, including more than 500 members of Hezbollah.
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this will end with the zionist entity and american hegemony being crushed!
this will end up with tens of millions of illegal immigrants who will again try to get to europe in search of a better life, just make a mess there and abuse the social system
not true. there are no tens of millions of israelis. but there are 9 millions of illegal settlers in palestine.
that’s 9 million too many.
and the illegal settlers all have double passportssonthey can travel back to their point of origin on the old passport, no question asked. however the issue is and must be to finish of the jews in palestine and anywhere else they might be found and their illgotten gains used to de-debt the goyims.
do you support trump?
just tell the eastren europeans to facilitate pathways to westren europe for them.
keep hitting the idf air bases.
you mean carriers lol
26 jewish settlers dead in the occupied territories. good
congrats to the iof, they managed to enter 400 meters into lebanon and hold that position for about 3 minutes before getting their asses handed to them 🤣🤣🤣 all their rear positions and assembly points on the border are getting pounded like nettenyekhoo’s mom on a sturday night
they’re censoring the casualties figures, but already admitted that 14 soldiers were killed yesterday and 8 more today, plus dozens of injured. those are the “watered-down” numbers, so you can easily imagine the real numbers are 2x, 3x or even more 🤣🤣🤣
that’s quite an achievement by their standards! 400 metres! wow! tik tok dancing all the way!
the litani river is 29km away. theres no way the idf are reaching that. they are thoroughly incompetent.
hehehe 🤣
operations chamber of islamic resistance announce 17 israeli soldiers and officers were killed during thursday’s border battles
zionists losers lmfao 😆
keep on knocking but ya can’t come in. lots of dead dead zionists in south lebanon
after the jews failure in gaza and now the failure in lebanon and the iranian success in showing the world that the jews much heralded iron dome isleaking like a sieve and if little use and thus the jews are trying to force the iranians into a second attack which might or might not bring the disunited states of a into the fray.
irans best move is to say enough is enough and a) put a couple of rounds in abraham lincoln and then b) activate the mines in the hormuz straight. great x-mas gift to biden/trump!
stick a couple of nuke warheads on their missiles. borrow a couple from marshal kim.
i think in fairness the iron dome isn’t designed to intercept ballistic missiles. its designed to light up the sky so you can better view the trajectory of the incoming missiles which you can then film and upload and post online?
oh dear, the zio lgbt army isn’t doing terribly well. maybe they should just stick to tik tok dancing and murdering little kiddies. stick to what they do best.
the headline should be
“israel resorts to killing civilians after failed attempt to enter lebanon”
exactly! would agree to that very mjch. that way they’re trying to turn attention and to terrorize people.
the support for the satanic jewz among western elites is unprecedented, even by nazi standards. in australia, the australian political, media, and academic (university think tanks) establishments are extremely anti-muslim racist fanatics on behalf of the satanic jewz and their barbaric childkiller, “israel.”
it looks like 1. russia is strongly supporting iran behind the scenes, & increasingly openly. 2. khamenei is calling the shots (literally) in iran. the weak & ineffectual new president has been sidelined & may soon be replaced. 3. iran may shortly (tomorrow?) announce a change to its nuclear policy after persistent israeli provocations. 4. the war is not going well for israel despite the massive civilian casualties inflicted. 5. the potential for escalation ….
“moscow urges citizens to leave israel” (source: rt)
this is much bigger than you think. israel’s economy is in free fall and it goes without saying: an even bigger max exodus of people is very detrimental to an already struggling economy.
where are the coward turks??? only hot air from their mouth. show your intent now and send military help to lebanon and occupied palestine.
the best question in here. but it doesn’t have to be sent. they should just leave syria alone. that’d be sufficient.
do you suppose that a cia operation like turkey is going to interfere with a cia viper’s nest like the jewish supremacist state?
true. they should act instead of just speak big mouth style. but likely turks are afraid of netanyahu squeezing their osman dicks in a painful way big time. likely that’s the reason they always talk big but act zero.
no matter how hard they try, the jews simply cannot bomb, assassinate and murder their way out of this and hope for a good future. “stupid as a zionist”. they really are mentally impaired. “gods chosen” lol. good luck. remember, when invading lebanon, you are no longer dealing with unarmed women and children at the border. you will be seeing real men turn you into fertilizer. the lebanese army is not included because they are western backed pussies
zionists cowards can’t fight by land.
airstrike on population of lebanese
frustrating to see the isr soldatos invading in groups and no action is be taken against the invaders. those seem to be easy pickings. one sees similar in kursk with ukr groups being watched but allowed to move around in kursk unhindered.