By Foreign Desk
Hezbollah has announced its fighters have killed over 110 Israeli troops and injured more than 1,050 others on the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine since October 1.
A new report published by the Lebanese resistance movement states the number of Israeli casualties had been recorded until Tuesday night and does not include “the enemy’s losses at its bases, military sites, barracks, settlements, or occupied cities.”
The report, issued by the Islamic Resistance Operations Room, details the latest battlefield developments.
Hezbollah said its fighters continue to repel the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, inflicting heavy losses on the Israeli military across various fronts, including deep within the apartheid regime.
The report touches on a recent missile operation against Haifa, which it said was built on a promise to intensify and escalate the “Khaybar series of special operations”.
“It also serves to refute the claims of enemy leaders regarding the destruction of the Resistance’s missile force.”
Israeli government ministers and senior military officials had previously claimed the regime had depleted 80 percent of Hezbollah’s missile stockpile.
The report says that the attack on Haifa affirmed Hezbollah’s ability to target “enemy military bases of various types simultaneously and with large salvos of precise missiles, which rained down on the occupied city of Haifa and successfully hit their targets.”
“The operation achieved its objectives, with Resistance missiles striking the five announced military bases, forcing over 300,000 settlers into shelters.”
Hezbollah noted that Israeli civilians are paying the price for their army’s strategy of placing “military bases within settlements and occupied cities, near commercial and economic interests.”
The report warns the Lebanese resistance movement has prepared itself to ensure its readiness and capability to conduct such operations in “Haifa and beyond Haifa, over a timeframe that the enemy does not anticipate.”
The report highlights the failures of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in their botched ground invasion of southern Lebanon and the inability to establish control within Lebanese territory, despite declaring a second phase of ground operation.
“The Operations Room confirms that the concentrated and strategic defensive operations it carried out during the ‘first phase’ of the enemy’s ground operations forced [the IOF] to retreat beyond the border in some areas and denied them the ability to stabilize in most of the border towns.”
The report points out that the Israeli air force continues to attack border villages, “which it claims to control” with dozens of daily airstrikes by warplanes and drones.
These assaults, Hezbollah said, confirm the IOF’s failure to establish control within Lebanese territory.
“The recent attempts to advance toward areas south of Khiam – where they previously attempted to enter but were forced to withdraw under the blows of the (Hezbollah) fighters – further demonstrate the failure of the first phase.”
Since the start of the attempted ground invasion until Tuesday evening, Hezbollah said it had carried out over 350 operations against the IOF on Lebanese territories.
More than 600 operations have been waged targeting “the zones of responsibility of Israeli military divisions on occupied Palestinian territories, causing significant losses to the enemy army.”
“To the officers and soldiers of the Israeli enemy army, we affirm that what happened to Battalion 51 of the Golani Brigade at the outskirts of the Ainata – Maroun Al-Ras – Aitaroun triangle is just the beginning, and between you and us, there are the days, the nights, and the battlefield. As our most sacred martyr [His Eminence Martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah] said: ‘You will enter vertically and leave horizontally.’”
The report goes on to detail the IOF’s failures in other attempted routes to advance in southern Lebanon and how Hezbollah confronted them, which on several occasions fell into a series of planned ambushes by the Lebanese resistance.
At times, the report said Hezbollah paved the way for the IOF to advance into Lebanese territory only to fall into a sophisticated and deadly ambush, which allowed the Lebanese resistance fighters to target IOF rescue teams, with very “close-range clashes”.
In relation to IOF losses, the report said since the Israeli military announced the “second phase” of ground operations in southern Lebanon on November 12, Hezbollah’s Operations Room has documented the following losses:
- “Over 18 killed and 32 wounded (some critically) among enemy troops.”
- “Destruction of five Merkava tanks and one military bulldozer.”
The report concludes that the cumulative losses of the IOF from October 1, 2024, until Tuesday evening are as follows:
- “Over 110 killed and more than 1,050 wounded among enemy officers and soldiers.”
- “Destruction of 48 Merkava tanks, 9 military bulldozers, 2 Hummer vehicles, 2 armored vehicles, and 2 troop carriers.
- “Downing of 6 Hermes 450 drones, 2 Hermes 900 drones, and 1 Quadcopter glider.”
The Lebanese resistance movement has inflicted many other losses on Israeli soldiers and military equipment with missile and drone attacks on Israeli bases as far as Tel Aviv and Haifa, as well as barracks in the northern settlements.
Credit: Tehran Times
