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MUST READ: The full statement from Hezbollah's operations room:
The Islamic Resistance continues to confront the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, and the Israeli enemy army has suffered heavy losses in its equipment and the number of officers and soldiers, along the confrontation axes at the front edge in southern Lebanon, reaching its locations deep inside occupied Palestine. Since the start of the ground operations at the front edge near the Lebanese-Palestinian border, the Israeli enemy army has brought in 5 military divisions comprising more than 70,000 officers and soldiers and hundreds of tanks and military vehicles. In contrast, hundreds of Islamic Resistance fighters were fully prepared and ready to confront any Israeli ground incursion towards the villages of southern Lebanon.
1- Land confrontations:
The beginning of this week witnessed an escalation in the pace of heroic confrontations waged by the Islamic Resistance fighters with the officers and soldiers of the Israeli enemy who penetrated from several paths in the eastern and western sectors towards the villages of Adaisseh, Rab Thalatheen, Blida, Markaba, Al-Qawzah, Aita al-Shaab, and Ramia, with heavy fire cover from the air force and artillery targeting the aforementioned villages and their surroundings.
According to pre-prepared field plans, the Islamic Resistance fighters confronted the enemy forces around and inside some villages by targeting the advance paths, and luring these forces into some advanced ambushes inside some border villages, where violent clashes took place with the enemy at zero distance, especially in the towns of Al-Qawzah and Rab Thalatheen, which resulted in the enemy suffering 10 dead and more than 150 wounded and the destruction of 9 Merkava tanks and 4 military bulldozers.
2- Missile force:
The missile force of the Islamic Resistance continues, gradually increasing day after day, to target the gatherings of the Israeli enemy in military sites and barracks along the Lebanese-Palestinian border and in the settlements and occupied cities in the north, reaching its military bases deep inside occupied Palestine, with various types of missiles, including precision missiles that are being used for the first time.
3- Air Force:
The Air Force of the Islamic Resistance continues, gradually increasing day after day, to target the enemy's military bases from the Lebanese-Palestinian border, reaching deep into occupied Palestine, with various types of suicide bombers, including the type that is being used for the first time. In addition to reconnaissance and information gathering missions.
4- Air Defense Unit:
The Islamic Resistance fighters in the Air Defense Unit confronted and continue to confront, with appropriate weapons, the Israeli military aircraft that are attacking Lebanon, both reconnaissance and combat aircraft, where they were able to shoot down two “Hermes 450” reconnaissance aircraft.
The enemy's losses, according to what the Islamic Resistance fighters monitored, amounted to about 55 dead and more than 500 wounded officers and soldiers of the Israeli enemy army, in addition to the destruction of 20 Merkava tanks, the destruction of 4 military bulldozers, an armored vehicle and an armored personnel carrier, in addition to the downing of two "Hermes 450" drones.
This toll does not include the losses of the Israeli enemy in military bases and barracks along the Lebanese-Palestinian border, reaching deep into occupied Palestine.
Based on the directives of the resistance leadership, the Islamic Resistance Operations Room announces the transition to a new and escalating phase in the confrontation with the Israeli enemy, which will be discussed in the events of the coming days.
@SNNenglish