Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Israeli troops captured two Hezbollah fighters, members of the group’s elite Radwan Force, during operations in southern Lebanon over the weekend, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on March 23.
In a statement, the IDF said that troops of the Givati Brigade spotted the Radwan fighters while they were planning to launch anti-tank guided missiles at the forces, as well as at Israeli territories.
A short while later, the pair surrendered to the troops, the military added, noting that the forces located weapons and other military equipment alongside the fighters and that the building they were in was destroyed overnight.
Click to see full-size image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Click to see full-size image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
The two fighters were taken to Israel and questioned by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504, which specializes in human intelligence.
Click to see full-size image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Click to see full-size image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
According to the IDF, their interrogation revealed that the fighters arrived in southern Lebanon from the Beqaa Valley area at the start of the American-Israeli war with Iran.
“This case once again proves that the Lebanese army failed and did not prevent the movement of terrorists and weapons south of the Litani [River],” the military said.
Hezbollah resumed military operations right after the start of the war on Iran, ending a ceasefire brokered by the United States more than 15 months earlier and promoting the IDF to launch “targeted” ground operations in southern Lebanon.
The group stepped up attacks on northern Israel in recent days. In fact, just before the IDF announced the capture of the group’s fighters, a salvo or rockets hit the settlement of Kiryat Shmona, wounding at least four people, including one seriously, according to Hebrew media.
A day earlier, the IDF bombed a bridge on the Litani River in response to a Hezbollah rocket attack that killed a person in the settlement of Misgav Am.
Litani lies 20 to 30 kilometers away from the Blue Line, and Israel has repeatedly implied that it wants to occupy all territories up to the river since Hezbollah resumed military operations.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, whose son was seriously wounded by a recent Hezbollah attack, said on March 23 that Israel should extend its border with Lebanon up to the Litani.
Smotrich told an Israeli radio program that the military campaign in Lebanon “needs to end with a different reality entirely, both with the Hezbollah decision but also with the change of Israel’s borders.”
“I say here definitively…in every room and in every discussion, too: the new Israeli border must be the Litani,” Smotrich said.
Smotrich’s remarks are yet another evidence that ongoing Israeli ground operations in southern Lebanon are not “targeted,” but rather a part of a wider policy amid efforts to expand the territories of Israel. These remarks will likely strengthen Hezbollah’s position within Lebanon, even beyond its main support base.
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hezbollah took terrible losses from the israeli terrorist pager attack. it is back, perhaps better than ever. the two soldiers will surly be illegally tortured, but had good weapons. what price did the idf pay to capture them ?
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fake news, hezbollah fighters do not surrender.
they all know it’s better to die fighting than be tortured to death by motherless animals
https://hawarnews.com/ar/139180
you’ll like this. i’ll like it when the democrats bomb russia.
they will be annally-penetrated in prison…heheheh
ramses vagyna opens wide.
when they get done shocking them they will be sterile should have went down shooting
they both have tatoos, and the background is totally ai. tatoos in islam are prohibited.
how deep is israhells power sunken to fetch for so cheap tricks… can’t say how much i laught.
hezbollah and iran are destroyed. it’s all the fault of the alawites and the russians.i hope that for the next thousand years both the alawites and the russians will be hungry and persecuted by everyone.hated more than the gypsies are hated in europe.i want the hts in syria to sterilize all the alawite women like the czechoslovakian government did with the gipsy women. maybe bill gates would help too, because the alawites betrayed hezbollah to the israelis
wh en t he y wen t to hezb ol l ah fun e ra ls, wh en hez bol lah mem b ers die d fo r th e m.
hez boll ah me meb ers died for the al awit es.most syrians su pport i s i s a n y wa y.so on h t s will be th r o wn out of po wer and isi s w ill co m e .t ha t will be t he onl y ju st solu t ion.and it will be even more just if isis the n ster ili ze all the ala wite wom en.a lawit es went to hezb ollah funerals and then rep orted to isr ae l for mo ne y . w e a ll k no w th is.
ala wites went to hez bolla h fun erals and then re ported to israe l for mo n ey . we all k n ow th is. that is w hy it is nece ss ary t h at all al aw i te wo m en be st er ili zed by is i s. th e effect must be gre at er th an in th e ca se of the gy ps y wo m en in czec hoslo vakia and danish ethnic cleansing across gree nla nd and the acti v ities of bill gates. but if gates sterilized all alawite women, justice for the betrayed and murdered hezbollah members would finally be achieved.
wh en t he y wen t to hezb ol l ah fun e ra ls, wh en hez bol lah mem b ers die d fo r th e m.
hez boll ah me meb ers died for the al awit es.most syrians su pport i s i s a n y wa y.so on h t s will be th r o wn out of po wer and isi s w ill co m e .t ha t will be t he onl y ju st solu t ion.and it will be even more just if isis then sterilize all the alawite women.alawites went to hezbollah funerals and then rep orted to isr ae l for mo ne y . w e a ll k no w th is.
ala wites went to hez bolla h fun erals and then re ported to israe l for mo n ey . we all k n ow th is. that is w hy it is nece ss ary t h at all al aw i te wo m en be st er ili zed by is i s. th e effect must be gre at er th an in th e ca se of the gy ps y wo m en in czec hoslo vakia and danish ethnic cleansing across greenland and the activ ities of bill gat es.
i hear those israeli diapers forces are struggling in lebanon. maybe the amerikunt marines can go and help them, like 1983, the marines will go kabooooooooom and go home in bodybags again
śmierć zdrajcom z krajów arabskich. szejkowie za szekle sprzedali swoje narody. kraje islamskie stoją za iranem, tylko sprzedajni politycy lizą jaja żydom i amerykanom. gdzie jest turcja? dziś liban, a jutro kolej na nich i oni na pewno to wiedzą. ukraina niszczy porty naftowe na bałtyku. zaplanowana akcja żydów. mamy być biedni, nędzarzami bez prawa do niczego.