Hezbollah repels Israeli military advance in southern Lebanon🇱🇧🔻 Hezbollah on Thursday said it thwarted Israeli attempts over the past four days to advance toward the southern Lebanese town of Kfartebnit and the Ali al-Taher area, claiming to have inflicted casualties and material losses on the attacking forces.
The statement marked the group’s first military announcement in nearly 48 hours, according to an Anadolu correspondent.
The pace of Israeli attacks on Lebanon has generally slowed over the past three days, coinciding with a US-Iran agreement intended to pave the way for ending the war launched by Washington and Tel Aviv against Tehran on Feb. 28.
Hezbollah said the Israeli army had been attempting for four days to advance toward Kfartebnit and the Ali al-Taher area along multiple routes, backed by heavy artillery fire and aerial surveillance carried out by reconnaissance aircraft.
It said its fighters confronted all of those attempts by targeting Israeli troop movements with rockets, drones, and loitering munitions, “inflicting losses among officers, soldiers, and military vehicles, forcing the troops to withdraw and use helicopters under cover of smoke and artillery fire to evacuate their casualties.”
According to the statement, Hezbollah fighters detected at 8 pm local time (1700 GMT) on Wednesday an Israeli infantry force infiltrating the northeastern outskirts of Kfartebnit and targeted it with a swarm of drones and “Ababil” loitering munitions, leaving its members dead or wounded.
Hezbollah also said that at 1.50 am local time on Thursday (2250 GMT Wednesday), while Israeli forces were attempting to regroup near the crossing area, its fighters struck a Merkava tank with a direct hit, forcing the assembled troops to withdraw.
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