“During an attempted infiltration of an enemy infantry force into Lebanese territory” near the border town of Markaba, Hezbollah fighters fired “artillery shells,” the Lebanese militia said in a statement, adding that the militants attacked with rockets. to soldiers in other locations, including the Labouneh area in southern Lebanon.
“The Islamic Resistance carried out an operation on the night of Sunday, October 13, 2024, launching a group of assault drones against a training camp of the Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of Haifa,” said Hezbollah, considered terrorist organization by the US and other Western countries such as Argentina, while the European Union and other countries only classify its armed wing that way.
The pro-Iran group said it was a “complex operation,” in which it fired dozens of rockets simultaneously at several targets in the Nahariya and Acre regions to distract Israeli air defenses. As a result, several drones escaped the radar of the Israeli air defense. According to Hezbollah, some drones were used “for the first time” in the attack.
Hezbollah dedicated the attack to its leader Hasan Nasrallah, assassinated by Israel at the end of September. At the same time, the group justified this action as part of a series of operations in response to “Zionist attacks, particularly in the neighborhoods of Al Nwaireh and Al Basta, in the capital Beirut and other Lebanese regions,” in which at least 22 people on Thursday, according to local information.
Furthermore, Hezbollah assured that the attack was “only a preview” of what Israel could face if it continued its offensive in Lebanon.
Israel confirmed the death of 4 soldiers
“Yesterday (Sunday), a UAV launched by the terrorist organization Hezbollah hit a military base adjacent to Binyamina,” the Israeli Army confirmed this Monday night in a statement, adding that “four soldiers (…) died in the incident and “Seven others were seriously injured.” This made this attack the deadliest by Hezbollah since the conflict escalated significantly since September 23.
On Monday morning, the Army published the names of the four deceased, after notifying their families. All four were 19 years old and in infantry training. In the attack on the Binjamina military base, located between Haifa and Tel Aviv, and other points in northern Israel, a total of 67 people were injured, Israeli emergency services previously reported. Some of them were in danger of death.
Hezbollah’s attack comes as Israel maintains its offensive in southern Lebanon, in a conflict in which the UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, has been increasingly caught between the fronts in recent days.
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