In a statement, Lebanese Hezbollah stated this Thursday, October 24, that its fighters confronted Israeli troops “at point-blank range in Aita al-Chaab with automatic weapons and missiles.”
Hezbollah also announced that it had destroyed an Israeli tank, following a similar announcement on Thursday morning.
According to a source close to Hezbollah, Aïta al-Chaab is one of the most violently bombed towns since the opening of the front in southern Lebanon in October 2023, when Hezbollah bombed northern Israel in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza. . .
According to this source, Israeli forces have not yet managed to consolidate their advance in the numerous towns on the border, including Aïta al-Chaab, where they are trying to advance.
Incessant fighting for several days.
In this town, the Israeli army has dynamited several houses in recent days, according to the Lebanese National Information Agency (Ani), which reported violent fighting in the early hours of this Thursday, October 24.
“Enemy helicopters landed on the site five times” to evacuate victims of the fighting in Aita al-Chaab and the neighboring town of Ramia, Ani said.
In Aita al-Chaab, AFPTV images from mid-October showed the Israeli flag raised over the water tank that supplies the town.
“The enemy has not been able to fully control or establish itself in any village,” Hezbollah deputy Hassan Fadlallah declared at a recent press conference. According to him, Israel “destroys, films and flees.”
On Monday, October 21, the Qatari pan-Arab channel Al-Jazeera broadcast images showing Israeli tanks on the outskirts of the village.
Following its bombing campaign against Hezbollah strongholds across Lebanon, the Israeli military has been carrying out ground operations in the south of the country since September 30.
He says he wants to neutralize Hezbollah, with which he went into open war on September 23, to allow the return to northern Israel of people displaced by months of cross-border shootings.
It was in Aita al-Chaab that Hezbollah fighters captured two Israeli soldiers in July 2006, triggering a devastating month-long conflict against Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Source: BFM TV