Hezbollah kills and injures over 1100 Israeli troops
Hezbollah kills and injures over 1,100 Israeli troops
TEHRAN - Hezbollah has revealed its fighters have killed over 100 Israeli officers and soldiers while injuring over 1,000 others on the Lebanese border.
The casualty rates were announced in a report published by the resistance movement’s operations room on the latest battlefield developments.
It noted the deaths and injuries of the Israel occupation forces (IOF) are only on the Lebanese border and don’t include troops killed and injured in occupied Palestine.
Hezbollah said its fighters continue to confront the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, inflicting severe losses on the “enemy’s army in personnel and equipment, including officers and soldiers, across the frontlines and into the depth of occupied Palestine.”
IOF infantry units have been trying to invade southern Lebanon since late September.
The Hezbollah report covers the latest ground confrontations with the IOF in the western and eastern sectors of the Lebanese border.
On the western side, the reports said that “due to intensive and concentrated strikes by the resistance, the Israeli army has withdrawn from most towns it had advanced into, retreating behind the border, except for the continued presence of Division 146 units in the forests of Labbuneh and east of al-Naqoura, where they attempt to advance toward Wadi Hamoul from the eastern side of the town.”
Since October 28, 2024, no IOF infiltration attempts have been recorded in the border towns of the western sector, the report said.
Instead, the Hezbollah operations room says the IOF conducts repeated sweeps from border positions, targeting areas it has withdrawn from with artillery fire and airstrikes.
In the Maroun al-Ras area, Hezbollah says its fighters carried out more than 24 operations using missiles and attack drones against the IOF positions and gatherings of forces that advanced into the Lebanese territory.
Additionally, 26 missile and artillery strikes targeted settlements, which house air defense and missile bases, command centers for participating battalions, weapons depots, and vehicle assembly areas under the command of Division 36 in the IOF.
“When an Israeli force attempted to infiltrate from the town of Yaroun toward western Maroun Al-Ras, our fighters ambushed and engaged the infiltrating force with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, inflicting casualties among the enemy.”
On the eastern side of the border, the IOF has retreated from four villages, including the strategic area of al-Khiam, under fire from Hezbollah.
“Following the precise operation in al-Khiam and after tracking Division 91’s movements at the eastern edges of Hula and around the al-Abbad border post, our fighters launched qualitative missiles at a gathering of Israeli forces and equipment, causing massive explosions, casualties, and extensive damage to the site and the vehicles within it,” the report said.
In Kfar Kila, as the engineering units of the IOF’s Division 98 were demolishing homes and infrastructure, Hezbollah fighters “struck two bulldozers and an armored personnel carrier with guided missiles, killing and wounding the personnel within. Attempts to extract the casualties were met with intense missile barrages.”
The second part of the report covers Hezbollah’s “Khaybar Operations”, which the Lebanese resistance forces started on October 1 to attack sensitive Israeli targets.
“Since its initiation, the Khaybar operations series has included 70 operations, targeting 33 strategic objectives up to 145 km south of Tel Aviv, such as military, logistics, air, and naval bases, air defense and missile sites, command centers, communication and intelligence bases, and training camps,” it stated.
It also noted that Hezbollah's air force participated in 22 operations within the Khaybar series, launching more than 60 advanced drones with a range of up to 145 km, reaching the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv.
On the resistance movement’s missile force, the report said Hezbollah continues targeting enemy concentrations at military sites and bases along the Lebanese border along with strategic, security, and military Israeli bases.
“Various types of missiles, including precision-guided ones used for the first time, have been deployed.”
Since September 17, 2024, over 1,020 missile salvoes have been launched, 125 of which have been fired in the past week alone.
“On November 6, 2024, for the first time, the missile force launched the Fateh 110 missile, striking the Tzrifin base located 130 km from the closest point to the Lebanese-Palestinian border.”
Section four of the report explains how Hezbollah’s air force operations continue to target Israeli sites and “exhaust the enemy’s military”.
“Cameras operated by frightened settlers – prompted by ongoing alarms in all settlements and cities since our drones breached the border – document repeated Israeli failures to down resistance drones, which reach their targets with precision, causing losses in the Israeli army ranks.”
Israeli ground losses since the attempted invasion of southern Lebanon include:
- Over 100 killed and 1,000 wounded among Israeli army officers and soldiers.
- Destruction of 43 Merkava tanks, eight military bulldozers, two Hummer vehicles, two armored personnel carriers, and two troop carriers.
- Downing of four Hermes 450 drones and two Hermes 900 drones.
Hezbollah also warned the IOF that its decision to launch the second phase of its ground operations in southern Lebanon “will only lead to more losses and failures”.
The Lebanese resistance movement says it has taken “all defensive measures to engage in a prolonged battle, preventing the enemy from achieving its goals.”
Despite Israeli claims to control border villages, Hezbollah continues to launch missiles from the Lebanese border deep into Israel, repeatedly surprising the regime’s military.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis continue to be forced to hide in shelters.
source: tehrantimes.com