Lebanese armed group Hezbollah claimed to have foiled Thursday one other Israeli try to advance at a border level in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah “repelled with artillery fire an attempt by enemy Israeli forces to advance at Fatima’s Gate,” it stated, a day after eight Israeli troopers had been killed in south Lebanon preventing the Iran-backed group.
Israel confirmed late Wednesday the losses, which had been the deadliest suffered by the Israeli army on the Lebanon entrance prior to now 12 months of border-area clashes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a condolence video, stated: “We are on the top of a tough struggle in opposition to Iran’s Axis of Evil, which desires to destroy us.
“This will not happen because we will stand together and with God’s help, we will win together,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah stated its fighters had been partaking Israeli forces inside Lebanon on Wednesday, reporting floor clashes for the primary time since Israeli forces pushed over the border.
The group added it destroyed three Israeli Merkava tanks with rockets close to the border city of Maroun El Ras.
It additionally stored up its strikes on Israel, saying it had fired a barrage of rockets on the metropolis of Tiberias in what it stated was a response to the bombardment of Lebanese “towns, villages and civilians.”
On Thursday, Israel’s army stated it killed 15 Hezbollah members in an airstrike within the Bint Jbeil municipality in south Lebanon, an space that had been closely broken throughout Israel’s final struggle there in 2006. Israel additionally advised locals to evacuate one other 25 villages within the south.
Source: www.dailysabah.com