4 soldiers killed – DW – 10/14/2024

“During an attempted incursion of enemy infantry 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 fired rockets at troops in other locations. , which includes the Labouneh region of southern Lebanon.

“The Islamic Resistance launched a group of attack drones against a training camp of the Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of Haifa, on the night of Sunday, October 13, 2024,” said Hezbollah, which is considered a terrorist organization by the US. and other Western countries such as Argentina, while the European Union and other countries classify only their armed branches as such.

The pro-Iranian group said it was a “complex operation” in which it fired dozens of rockets simultaneously at multiple targets in the Nahariya and Acre areas to distract Israeli air defenses. As a result, many drones escaped Israeli air defense radar. According to Hezbollah, some drones were used in the attack “for the first time”.

Hezbollah dedicated the attack to its leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel in late September. Also, the group justified this action as part of a series of operations in response to “Zionist attacks, especially in the neighborhoods of Al Nawareh and Al Basta in the capital Beirut and other Lebanese areas”, including at least 22 people on Thursday according to local information.

Furthermore, Hezbollah claimed that the attack was “only a preview” of what it might face if Israel continued its offensive into Lebanon.

Israel confirmed the death of 4 soldiers

“Yesterday (Sunday) a UAV launched by the terrorist organization Hezbollah struck a military base adjacent to Binyamina,” the Israeli military confirmed in a statement on Monday night. Others were seriously injured. This made the attack the deadliest by Hezbollah since the conflict escalated on 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 were in infantry training. Israeli emergency services earlier reported that a total of 67 people were injured in the attack on the Binjamina military base, located between Haifa and Tel Aviv and other points in northern Israel. Some of them were in danger of death.

The Hezbollah attack comes as Israel continues its offensive in southern Lebanon, and a day after the country launched attacks against Lebanese Red Cross paramedics, wounding three Lebanese soldiers in an attack on a vehicle in the southern Lebanon country. Crossed the border between Lebanon and Syria and destroyed a mosque in an attack that killed at least four people.

In the conflict, the UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, has in recent days become increasingly caught between the two fronts.

RML (EFE, AFP)