ISRAEL SAYS WILL NOT ALLOW HEZBOLLAH TO RETURN TO BORDER AREAS AFTER TROOPS WITHDRAW

Mon 14 October 2024:

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday vowed to prevent Hezbollah from returning to fighting positions along the border, even after the Israeli military withdraws from the area.

“Even once IDF (military) troops withdraw, we will not allow Hezbollah terrorists to return to these areas,” said Gallant during a visit to an observation post overseeing southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah’s deadly drone attack is ‘painful’, Israeli army chief says

Herzi Halevi says the Hezbollah attack on a training base that killed at least four soldiers and injured 58 was “difficult and painful”.

“We are at war and an attack on a training base on the home front is difficult and the results are painful,” he told soldiers during a visit to the Golani Brigade base that was hit.

It is located in the Binyamina area, south of the port city of Haifa, on the Mediterranean coast. Hezbollah said a “swarm of drones” was used to target the facility, in response to Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon.

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Israeli military claims Hezbollah has launched 25 rockets from near peacekeeper posts

The Israeli military has posted a video on X reportedly showing a Hezbollah weapons cache near a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) base.

The text accompanying the video claimed Hezbollah has launched “25 rockets and missiles” at Israeli communities and soldiers from “terrorist compounds embedded near UNIFIL posts” over the past month.

It said it found “weapons were stored inside underground compounds located from a few dozen meters to up to a few hundred meters from UNIFIL posts situated near the Blue Line” in southern Lebanon in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

Beyond the video, it did not provide any evidence for the claims.

Israeli forces have been responsible for several attacks on UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon, injuring at least five peacekeepers since Thursday. The attacks have drawn widespread international condemnation, including from the US.

Hezbollah strike on Israeli military unit was a ‘symbolic choice of target’

Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reporting from Amman, Jordan

Four Israeli soldiers have been killed and seven others are in critical condition, along with a few dozen who are injured, following a surprise Hezbollah drone attack that evaded detection or interception by the Israeli army.

The attack happened on a military base in Binyamina, south of Haifa, and it comes after several warnings from Hezbollah that attacks would escalate. Shortly after the attack, we saw sirens going off with more rockets fired. The Israeli army said five rockets were intercepted over the skies of Haifa.

It’s a very symbolic choice of target by Hezbollah. The Golani Brigade is the elite unit of the Israeli military. This is a brigade that has participated in all of Israel’s wars and military operations, so it would have been part of the assault on Lebanon in the past – whether the 2006 war, the 1978 invasion or the 1982 invasion.

There is symbolism in targeting an elite unit that is supposed to be training in preparation for a ground offensive on Lebanon itself.

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