Click to see full-size image. By Al-Manar TV correspondent Ali Shoeib.
Hezbollah launched a new wave of attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on December 6, ignoring threats of an Israeli threat to invade southern Lebanon.
In eight separate statements, Hezbollah said that its fighters attacked the military sites of Radar, Ruwaisat al-Qarn, al-Dhahira, Hadab al-Bustan, al-Malikiyah, al-Raheb as well as Ramim Barracks and the Naqoura naval site.
The group announced in two other statements that it had targeted three gatherings of Israeli troops in the border areas of Jal al-Alam, Karm al-Tuffah and Tal al-Shair.
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.
As usual, the IDF responded by carrying out a series of air and artillery strikes on alleged targets of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Lebanese media didn’t report any civilian casualties. From its side, Hezbollah said that one of its fighters was killed “on the road to Jerusalem.”
Clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out last October after Hezbollah and its allies began launching attacks against the IDF from southern Lebanon in support of the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip.
So far, the clashes on the Lebanese front have claimed the lives of six IDF troops, three Israeli civilians, 88 fighters of Hezbollah, two fighters from the Lebanese Resistance Brigades, one fighter from the Lebanese Resistance Regiments, seven fighters from the Hamas Movement, four fighters from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one Lebanese soldier, 13 Lebanese civilians and another civilian from Syria.
Israel may be preparing for a major escalation on the Lebanese front. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told mayors and heads of councils located near the border with Lebanon, who were displaced by the clashes, on December 6 that they will not be returned home until Hezbollah is driven north of the Litani River, according to Hebrew media reports.
During the tense meeting in Nahariya, Gallant said that the best option for Israel is to reach a diplomatic arrangement that will cause United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 to be enforced.
The resolution, which ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006, barred Hezbollah from maintaining a military presence south of the Litani, which is located some 30 kilometers north of the Israel-Lebanon border.
If that doesn’t succeed, Gallant vowed that Israel will “act with all the means at its disposal” to push Hezbollah back through military actions.
Gallant’s threat represents a major escalation. Any Israeli ground operation against Hezbollah will lead to an all-out war that could easily spread beyond Lebanon’s border.
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it can be that the hezbollah will gain a 30km zone inside of israel. that would be a nightmare for the iof.
if the israelis want full scale war with hezbollah, they will need more than their gang of skanks, faggots, and soy boys masquerading as an army.
they will do what they always do, launch attacks on civilians and bomb beirut, well they should remember what happened in 2006, they ran home to mummy crying.
oh, the un resolutions! why not start “enforcing them” by showing a good example?!
starting with unsc 242 perhaps?
why would they bother invading since they only lost 6 soldiers? if theses death tallies are real, they’re up on the numbers, so why change tactics?
like i said before, even devil and his lieutenants cannot help israel. out matched and check mate.
i don’t think hezbollah well settle for humiliating the idf as they did in 2006, they may just capture and try the whole stinking israeli regime.
israel will be bogged down in unwinnable war for years. u.s. can only bail them out for so long.
idf will crush hezbollah rats too
idf are blowhards. the entire state of israel is a beggar, welfare state smooching off uncle sugar
lol you hasbara moron. idf since many weeks unable to defeat even a serious part of hamas, loosing man and armor every day in gaza. so we can imagine what would be the outcome against the 10 times stronger hisbollah? or the 100 times stronger iran?
every jew i ever met was a sniveling little rat.
looks like israel is setting itself up for a major defeat.
hezbollah hasn’t been taking out all those radars and listening posts for no reason. this means they will be able to target anything in israel, bases, aircraft…whatever, before the israelis know it’s upon them. the rocket/missile attacks are draining the ad, with the houthis doing their part. the port at eilat is shut down for the foreseeable future…thanks to them. how long can the us/israel keep up the pretense they aren’t scared to death of running out of munitions?
im still wondering why the hamas attack was not coordinated with the whole resistance axis, west bank militias, hisbolla, shia militias in syria, jordan, irak and with the houthi? if they attacked israel all together at once wiht full power, the idf losses in man and material would be at least factor 10 and whole idf near to defeat and colapse. and just in this moment the saa could liberate and recapture all of golan.
they don’t get along with hezbollah so well. hamas is sunni. hezbollah is shia. they fought against each other in syria.
the evil chosenite abomination will “fight” to the last unit of $lumville pork that its brain-dead yank golem sends to die for the hollow co$t abomination. otherwise yawn until the kosher nostra finally whack the dying don, nut’nyahoo and his gaggle of clown psychopaths that jews call their gubermint. meanwhile hamas keeps stacking the piles of burned shlomos ever higher.
seriulsy, only israel and the usa have the balls to follow through on their threats.
russia, iran, syria, turkey, iraq… all typical gutless muslim cowards…. all words and no action- just like in the real world in white cities…. the muslims are tough with their mouths but thats it!
russians are christians and no muslims you clown, apart from a few million muslim minorities. us and shlomos have only balls fighting 10 times weaker enemies with full air superiority. without it or if its less usefull like in the afghan mountains, somali cities, corean woods and the vitnam jungle, we all remember how it ended up.
oh please, please invade lebanon! this will be israel’s graveyard … like bakhmut was for ukraine.