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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged on March 6 that eight of its troops were wounded, five of them seriously, in a Hezbollah rocket attack.
The rocket struck a military position close to the Blue Line — a 120 kilometer demarcation line established by the United Nations — with Lebanon. According to a preliminary probe by the IDF, an alert sounded in the area, but the troops, who all serve with the Givati Brigade, did not manage to seek shelter in time.
The troops were taken to a hospital for treatment. Five were listed in serious condition and three were lightly hurt, the army said.
The office of Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich said that the minister’s son was among those lightly injured by the rocket attack.
Hezbollah resumed military operations against Israel on March 1, just a day after the start of the American-Israeli attack on Iran, ending a ceasefire in Lebanon that was brokered by the United States more than 15 months ago. Israel refused to withdraw from five points in southern Lebanon, and launched strikes on a regular basis throughout the ceasefire.
In the last two days, Hezbollah expanded its military operations beyond the front, where the IDF is currently conducting a ground operation, hitting military targets as far as central Israel using rockets and drones.
Videos released by Hezbollah’s Military Media revealed that the group is still in position of Fadi-2 heavy artillery rockets, which are Syrian M302s with a range of 100 kilometers and a warhead weighing 170 kg. The videos also show the group firing Nasir-1 precision guided rockets, which are basically to be M302s upgraded with a guidance kit. This version retains the 100 kilometer range, but with a lighter 100 kg warhead.
All of these rockets were made in Syria and supplied to Hezbollah during the rule of former president Bashar al-Assad, and it was widely speculated during the ceasefire in Lebanon that Hezbollah lost these capabilities.
Responding to this escalation by Hezbollah, the IDF carried out strikes in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, overnight and throughout March 6.
The overnight strikes hit ten multi-story buildings that were being used by Hezbollah in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh, according to the military, which said in a statement that the buildings, including a drone warehouse and the headquarters of Hezbollah’s executive council, “were intended to be used by Hezbollah to advance and carry out numerous attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”
A later wave of strikes in Dahiyeh struck the headquarters of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as several Hezbollah sites, the military said.
According to the IDF, the headquarters served the IRGC air force. In addition, the military said it struck three Hezbollah headquarters — of the group’s naval force, executive council, and financial division.
The IDF strikes in Beirut were preceded by a mass evacuation order for residents in all four major neighborhoods of the Dahiyeh.
Hezbollah has since responded by issuing its own evacuation warning for Israeli settlements located near the border with Lebanon.
All in all, Hezbollah is putting on far more resistance than expected. The fact that the group retained its advanced rocket and drone capabilities, despite facing hundreds of Israeli strikes during the ceasefire, in addition to a demilitarization plan pushed by the Lebanese government, came as a surprise.
The new war in Lebanon, which has so far killed 123 people and wounded 683 others, could go on for several weeks, or even more. Hebrew media is even reporting that it could continue well after the end of the ongoing war with Iran. Defense Minister Israel Katz on March 6 said that Israel would defeat Hezbollah “one way or another”.
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zionald will destroy america, mileikowsky promised in 1990 that he will chop america into pieces
donald trump is a pedophile and he will do anything to stay in the white house because he knows that as soon as he leaves the white house he will go to prison. pedophiles are at the bottom of the prison ladder. hated like lucy letby and urfan sharif.every prisoner wants to attack them and gain prison fame. he wants a long war with china because he raped a thirteen year old girl who bit him. he hates female children and that’s why he killed 165 iranian schoolgirls.
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viva hezbollah!
more regional us bases and assets will be targeted by iranian missiles for destruction. little else is likely. so israel will blame lebanon, hezbollah and anyone but themselves for regional destruction. until the us is forced out. israel must place death of idf soldiers for hasbara use
the zionist state is on the way of self-destruction because of their own desperate stupidity. they stupidity waste their ammos on decoys. report within tel aviv showed the iron dome now holes of doom ceased operation as the reserve is exhausted. the fear is coming to the zionists and their bosses
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from the nile river to the euphrates river, israel will never rule because jews have never managed to successfully govern any country on earth. note their current hold on amerikkka is not governance, it is a bacterial colony
what about ukraine they rule it for sure.
ukraine is another bacterial colony. no sane, normal country would be dong what “ukraine” is doing to itself. 3 case studies in jewish bacterial colonies: ukraine, israel and ussa. that is what you get when jews attempt to “rule”. you get bacterial colonies pretending to be countries.
please, don’t offend bacteria. they rule much better than many so-called western democracies.
bashar al-assad and his officers are the worst traitors in the history of traitors. because of their betrayal, pedophile trump will not stop until he either destroys iran and china or until there is a third world war. there will be a third world war if iran and china resist. all this just so that pedophile trump does not go to prison.for him, girls are not living beings. he killed 165 of them with a missile, he beat one because she bit him during a rape.
since putler betrayed syria, israel has had a free hand to destroy iran and lebanon.
the jooz and amerikunts are hiding heavy casualties. the walter reed hospital in germany has been emptied of normal work to deal with a large number of casualties. tel aviv is being turned into gaza.