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At least eight Israeli troops were killed by Hezbollah on October 2 as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attempted to make its first serious push into southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah announced in separate statements that its fighters targeted Israeli troops who advanced towards the towns of Odaisseh, Maroun al-Ras, Yaroun and Kfarkela. Later, the IDF admitted that five troops from the Egoz Commando Unit, two from the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit and one from the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit were killed.
The five Egoz commandos, including a team commander, and the Yahalom engineer were all killed during a gun battle with Hezbollah fighters, according to the IDF, which said that another officer and four soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident.
The military also said that two soldiers of the Golani recon unit were killed in a separate incident, in which another soldier was seriously wounded. In a third incident, a combat medic with the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion was seriously wounded, per the military.
The Lebanese military said in a statement that Israeli troops advanced some 400 meters into Lebanon before withdrawing.
Hezbollah announced other attacks against the IDF. The group shelled several gatherings along the Lebanese border, struck a group of troops between Odaisseh and the site of Misgav Am, attacked an artillery position near the settlement of Neve Ziv and destroyed three Merkava main battle tanks near Maroun al-Ras using guided missiles.
While the IDF has announced the death of eight troops so far. Sky News Arabia, citing Israeli security sources, reported that at least 14 were killed. Dozens others were reportedly killed.
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 on September 30.
Overall, 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 30 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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reports from independent western media outlets are saying that the idf have suffered serious casualty numbers during their invasion of southern lebanon with some 14 idf members dead. scores of others injured in short the jews are talking a serious beating in their ground operations in southern lebanon in recent hours
this is just at the gates of southern lebanon and occupied north palestine.
i wish hezbollah could drown them in a little deep before the mass slaughter.
yes, i’m hoping hezbolah will let them come in a few kilometers and then cut then down..
thats because they came face to face with men and not children.
quote.. “… israeli troops advanced some 400 meters into lebanon before withdrawing”
after all the blather, they had to run like foq after 400 meters… foq’n ell
let me ask you this: where are those trolls today? just that.
the beautiful tradition of fertilizing southern lebanon with satanic jews lives on.
they look lost, “israel” has no purpose. the us and israel don’t know what they’re doing anymore.
did they ever? i mean aside from sowing chaos in the region and trying benefit from it? it seems like it’s all just a big scam on american taxpayers. in the end, all they did was benefit the rich by taking from the poor. that’s their only achievement. the same poor people that the whole system depended on and now they basically rug pulled themselves.
satanic zionist filth.
satanic zionist flith must be destroyed!
its all for good! thank you
don’t know why the hezbollah isn’t hitting those helicopters.
because they are in rear and stay there only a couple of minutes…
because the assassination of their leadership has eliminated resistance to the jewish supremacist terror state in palestine.
because that´s what the geneva convention requires to do? they are medics evacuating wounded, and are not engaged in the fighting themselves. that isr bombs medics is no excuse to be as barbaric as they are.
why indeed. hamas have a policy of not firing on medical helicopters – even though they don’t carry red x markings. i think they need to ditch these scruples when dealing with ruthless zio psycho kiddie killers.
karma—well shit happens not only in the kiddie killers’ diapers.
zionist subhumans are not good at fighting hezbollah.
or hamas but gaza allows limited options for guerrilla warfare. southern lebanon will be the death of the idf. this will be a limited incursion. looks like the buffer zone will continue to be northern occupied palestine not south lebanon.
what sf forgot to mention is that the oldest “commander” was 24, clearly reservists with no military skills whatsoever.
any links. but at 24 you could have 6 yrs xp. but you get complacent when you only kill children throwing rocks at you
just look at times of israel, they gave name, grade and age for all 8 soldiers. 5 of them from the egoz commando unit, 2 from golani brigades, supposedly the crown jewel of the israeli army. kids from the reserves, whose only experience was probably running a checkpoint in the west bank, versus men who fought isis for the past 12 years.
there was much more than 8 dead soldiers today, the actual number is at least 80 dead + wounded, and mostof those were iskhaeli “special forces”. don’t trust the “official” casulaties numbers
i was about to say same thing.
i don´t trust them either, but even those supposedly small numbers on day one are sufficient to send a chill down their spines about the memories of 2006… of course the casualty numbers are higher, they got totally caned in odeisseh, 30 of them, and hezbollah also hit the rescue mission they sent, they had to send the iaf in, which means hannibal directive for those poor sods.
strange, they have 24 year old colonels, 20 year old majors and 19 year old captains. their privates must be about 12. they must hand out rank badges in corn flake packets. all the colonels i knew were crusty 40 year olds.
remember they are the chosen ones, highly intelligent, they learn fast, therefore go up the ladder naturally quickly as well
thanks, i forgot how chosen they are.
did you not see how quickly they learnt not to stand in windows???
nothing like the smell of smoked zios in the morning.
8 dead jews – not near enough dead jews. must be in the hundred of thousands to make them flee, like the rats they are!
hit the big planes…
dead jews!
good news!
lol
the gallant resistance whacking and stacking zionazi thugs and baby murdering sub human scum is truly a delightful thing to see. more bags for kosher meat from uncle schmuel are on the way. karma time!
latest:0helicopter shot down…
is there any more on this?
really? where did you get that?
over 18 and 60 injured iof, helicopter shot down
idk where you got that from, care to point us to a source?
these are hits on special units, commandos highly trained, not foot soldiers.
where are the gloating kike trolls today?
hee he
hasbarats come and go, like a herpes flare-up. someone is likely putting together new talking points for them after yesterday’s developments.
an iranian missile smoked the main troll factory, you know, one of those missiles that exploded harmlessly in the desert.
come on in, you’re sure of a warm welcome in lebanon. i’m a bit disappointed those zio troops didn’t give us a display of their inimitable tik tok dancing, though. and where are their little rainbow flags? come on shlomo, get a grip.
in my tel aviv gay bar prefer amerikunt mulattos
remember, a good invading zionist is always a dead one
the dancing israelis are in for a treat. they thought taking out nasrallah would kill hezbollah lol. just wait and see. if they cannot launch a full invasion of lebanon or even occupy small parts for a long time, they achieved nothing and their deterrence means nothing. the arrogant jews have no idea what they are in for because ive always been saying, the jews lack self awareness and self control.
50 iof commandos killed thus far
search online, its all over youtube, helicopter down and many iof dead in ambushes
so far reports of 8 killed. 3 tanks also knocked out, crews killed and wounded. helicopter came under fire but was not hit. one report of 14 killed. may be out of date but can’t find any reports of 50 killed. could be 50 total casualties.
heavy censorship and news blackouts throughout israel, its called fog of war. they dont want the world to see how vulnerable israel actually is. the veil is off…
don’t be lazy…