Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on October 2 that another division was deployed to southern Lebanon for ground operations against Hezbollah.
The 36th Division “Ga’ash” will be joining the 98th Division, which began conducting ground operations in Lebanon earlier this week.
The IDF has described the ground operations in southern Lebanon, which began on September 30, as “limited, localized, and targeted raids,” with the goal of demolishing Hezbollah’s infrastructure in the border area. No Israel advance has been reported so far.
Also on October 2, the IDF issued an order to Lebanese civilians in two dozen towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate immediately.
“Hezbollah’s activity forces the IDF to act against it. The IDF does not wish to harm you,” Colonel Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, says in a statement on X. “For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately. Anyone who is near Hezbollah operatives, their facilities or their weapons, puts themselves at risk.”
Col. Adraee also said that any house used by Hezbollah for military purposes is a target, calling on Lebanese civilians to head north.
“Attention, do not move south! Any movement south could endanger your life,” the spokesman added, noting that the IDF will update the civilians when they can return.
A day earlier, the IDF issued similar orders to 28 other towns in southern Lebanon. The military also warned against any movement of vehicles from the north of the Litani River to the south of it.
Since the morning of October, Hezbollah has fired more than a hundred rockets at northern Israel, targeting mainly gatherings of the IDF along the Lebanese border. The group also announced that its fighters clashed with an Israeli unit close to the town of Odaisseh. Initial reports by Hebrew media suggest that some 20 troops were killed or wounded.
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 three days later.
All in all, 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 22 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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israeli iron dome was totally useless with the latest iranian strike…ahahahahahahah. now iran knows how much missiles it needs with heavier payloads
“dome” is needed for interception of garage-made rockets and slow uavs. two types of missiles, both are incapable to intercept medium range bal.missiles. zionists use “patriots”, “arrow” (“hetz”) and fighters with aim-120 for distant interception. every system has limit of targets to engage, more missiles = less chances to intercept all. so “dome” is doing its job, it’s not wonder-weapon. imagine, if iran strikes at center of tel-aviv. but the resistance doesn’t fight with civilians.
so sad. look, lebanese leaders were idiots. i will not explain why as it is long story but always, when idiots are in charge it ends like that. imagine you are a 4 years old boy with water pistol and you dont like electricity so you start targeting electric sockets in hope you will destroy a powerplant. and you get yourself killed in the process. in fact , the civilians including children are always the first to be killed. leaders sometime escape and enjoy happy life in exile.
in this war, my dear, there are no civilians!!! if i steal the land from others, settle in there, then work to finance terror against my neighbors, i have lost the status of “civilian”! and to which exile does bibi want to flee after the destruction of israel???
probably to the usa, as ferdinand marcos once did. but he is so unpopular there that the population will not want him there! then he and his followers can build a new jewish paradise in madagascar
even russia is scared of israel. if you can read between the lines, lavrov and putin never did anything that could hurt feelings of israel, not directly or indirectly. russia treats israel as a grenade with safety pin removed. israel can strike syria day and night including russian airbases and ports and putin tolerates it. they can bomb embassies, kill anybody with impunity. but libanon/iran feel strong to fight them. they even don’t have a nuclear bomb as north korea. stupid.
bullshit! there are an incredible number of people in israel who have emigrated to israel from the former soviet territories. this is one of the reasons why russia is largely staying out of their conflicts!
the russians aren’t scared of israel. do you think russia would have armed iran with sukhoi su-35 fighter jets, mil mi-28 attack helicopters, and yak-130 jet trainers. and more importantly late model s400’? among other hardware … russia treats israel as an extension of the judeo-masonic crime syndicate and has been trying to avoid ww3 … but russia’s patience is not infinite either.
for the same reasons it hasn’t attacked the us military directly in syria. russia and china are doing everything possible to avoid a catastrophic third world war among superpowers. never in the history of mankind have nuclear superpowers gone to war directly. it’s unprecedented and 100% folly
how do you know iran doesn’t have a nuclear bomb? they’ve had the ability for years now. that is why trump scrapped jcpoa — it was meaningless. thanks for playing chess. better luck next time?
cool story bro
…the despair of israel is to be grasped with hands!
ground troops are the last choice to achieve what you can’t achieve with air terrorism, which is to stop the shelling of israel by its neighbors!
israel has already officially announced 4 dead and over 30 injured soldiers, i think we are just witnessing israel’s singing off…
fighting gaza, west bank and getting bogged down in lebanon…what a great idea to now start a war with iran.hahahahahahha…..zionist are soo dumb!!!
iran has shown once again what they are capable of!
gallantly in his statement: our air defense worked well and with the help of the usa we were able to intercept the ” most 🤡 ” missiles of iran 😆😆😆
hezbollah says it can push back israel, has sufficient resources the head of hezbollah’s media office, mohammad afif, says the group has enough fighters, weapons and ammunition to push back israel.
he was speaking to reporters in an area hit by israeli raids in southern lebanon. we will bring you more shortly. (source: aljazeera.com)
trouble is all the videos say a different story
like i have said for a year- arab muslims are useless and pathetic.
it takes the persians in 1 hour to show what the gutless muslim arab scum should have been doing from day 1 after the bombing of gaza.
arab nations are weak cowards and will never try and hurt israel… just try and tickle tem.
thank you persians for giving humans around the world some relief and some pain for the jew
arab nations are owned by the americans. a good deal of energy has been spent gaining and maintaining that control for eighty years.
migrants are getting weapons, forming groups attacking the whites. so, the jewish people must be evacuated to a much greater israel. i can only imagine the enormous pressure on the israeli junta.