Click to see full-size image. Source: the Israeli Air Force.
Clashes continued on the Lebanon front on November 1, with Hezbollah launching more attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Hezbollah said in a statement that its fighters targeted the Bayad Blida military site with “suitable weapons,” achieving “direct hits”. In a later statement, the group announced that it had attacked the headquarters of the IDF’s Zar’it battalion as well as a gathering of manpower and equipment near the town of Khalat Warda with artillery shells and rockets.
From its side, the IDF said that it had struck a cell that attempted to carry out an attack with an anti-tank guided missile from southern Lebanon.
The IDF also reported that several mortars were fired recently at Israel from southern Lebanon, setting off air raid sirens in the border town of Shtula.
The mortars fell in open areas and no injuries were reported, the IDF said, adding that it responded by targeting the cell that carried out the launch.
Lebanese media reported Israeli shelling on the towns of Blida, Aitaroun, Mays al-Jabal, Aita al-Shaab, Ramya and Shehin. The artillery strikes destroyed a civilian-owned digger near Aitaroun and led to the explosion of several old landmines in the outskirts of Blida. However, there were no casualties.
Click to see full-size image. By Ali Shoeib.
Click to see full-size image. By Ali Shoeib.
Since theHamas-led surprise attack from the Gaza Strip on October 7, Hezbollah and its allies have had near-daily exchanges of fire with the IDF along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
As of November 1, clashes on the Lebanon front have so far claimed the lives of seven Israelis -six soldiers and one civilian- 45 fighters of Hezbollah, two fighters from the Lebanese Resistance Brigades, seven Palestinian fighters -three from the Hamas Movement and four from the Islamic Jihad- and five Lebanese civilians -a teenager, two elderly men and two journalists-.
Commenting on the clashes, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister said that time is of the essence in stopping the Hamas-Israel war from “going out of control” and affecting Lebanon and the wider Middle East.
The prime minister, who is backed by Hezbollah, condemns both Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon and its attacks on Gaza.
“A humanitarian cease-fire for five days is necessary, where there can be active international talks to secure prisoner swaps and reach a permanent truce in order to reach an agreement on the conditions for regional peace,” Mikati said before a government meeting. “Enough war in Lebanon, for we are with the choice of peace.”
Mikati’s comments come just two days before Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is scheduled to give his first speech since the start of the war. Rumors suggest that he will announce an escalation in attacks against Israel in support of Gaza during the speech, or even declare an all out war.
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i get the feeling the mullahs are going to fully unleash their proxies in lebanon, syria and iraq at the worse possible moment, when israel and its treasonous israel-first puppets in the government and in the military are completely bogged down in gaza and then they will go for nuclear breakout unopposed.
do you really believe anyone can stop iran from having nukes? you people are funny
the iranians have been working hand in hand with the n.koreans on their nuclear and missle programs for years. do you honestly believe the iranians don’t already have nukes?
again, sf’s reporting on this conflict is good. not all guest-comments but there are clearly some ppl who have a good understanding of the me.
on sayyid hasan nasrallah’s speech: it is likely that he will outline demands for peace. such as the liberation of all palestinian prisoners, the withdrawal from occupied lebanese and syrian territory, cessation and dismantlement of all settlements, immediate cessation of all hostilites. israel’s response will almost certainly be no. hence there will be full-fledged war.
the idf……sooooooo courageous…. from a distance.
the israeli military has by far the highest rate of hommasexual soldiers in history… nearly 30% female idf are lesbian,