[News] Israeli media: Hezbollah achieving its goals, disrupting Gaza invasion

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Israeli media: Hezbollah achieving its goals, disrupting Gaza invasion
Al Mayadeen English - October 21, 2023
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The Israeli occupation underlines that Hezbollah's intensifying operations
are affecting its focus and even its plans to conduct a ground invasion in
Gaza.
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   - [image: Iranian demonstrators wave Iranian, Palestinian, and Hezbollah
   flags in a pro-Palestinian rally at the Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran,
   October 20, 2023 (AP)]
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   Iranian demonstrators wave Iranian, Palestinian, and Hezbollah flags in a
   pro-Palestinian rally at the Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, October 20,
   2023 (AP)

Israeli media outlets have been discussing for weeks Hezbollah's strategy
of disruption and keeping the Israeli occupation forces busy at the
Palestinian-Lebanese border area, underlining that it has "achieved what it
wants."

"Hezbollah has achieved what it wanted because it repeatedly targets
Israeli leaders and the army with attacks in the border area, and every day
the intensity increases," *Walla!* military affairs analyst Amir Bohbot
said.

"This distracts the army's focus and forces it to deploy additional
troops," he explained. It also "creates awareness of solidarity with the
Palestinians, conveys a regional message, and perhaps above all,
contributes to preventing or reducing ground maneuvers."

Earlier in the day, three Israeli soldiers were killed while four others
were injured in Hezbollah's attack on an infantry force positioned near the
"Branit" Barracks, sources told *Al Mayadeen*.

The Lebanese Resistance party announced that it had targeted an infantry
force near the barracks after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assaulted
journalists in South Lebanon near the al-Aabad military site on Thursday.

The IOF also prevented emergency services and UN peacekeeping forces from
assisting an injured civilian in the area. Abdullah Rabih al-Bekaai died as
a result of the IOF's blatant crime as he was left to bleed out for several
hours before emergency services were able to rescue him.

Hezbollah said that it targeted the occupation force with guided missiles
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/resistance-in-lebanon-targets-israeli-outpost-with-atgm>,
confirming that several members of the force were injured and killed as a
result of the attack.

An Israeli Apache attack helicopter combed nearby areas in Lebanese
territories, while gunfire and heavy artillery shelling were heard in the
area, *Al Mayadeen*'s correspondent reported.

Israeli military sites were targeted via guided missiles in the occupied
Shebaa Farms as well as two Israeli sites in the occupied Kfar Chouba
Hills, according to our correspondent.

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Moreover, *Al Mayadeen*'s correspondent in southern Lebanon reported that
the Israeli occupation forces are implementing exceptional measures in the
border areas while warning sirens sounded at the UNIFIL headquarters in
Naqoura, southern Lebanon.

*Al Mayadeen* correspondent reported that Israeli forces have been shelling
the outskirts of Kafr Chouba, the Shebaa farms, and around the barbed wire
fence in Wadi Hunin.

Skirmishes have intensified in occupied Lebanese territories and at the
Lebanese-Palestinian border. Hezbollah has launched several attacks
alongside other resistance factions targeting Israeli military and
intelligence sites. Most of the attacks focused on targeting Israeli
intelligence and surveillance equipment while others targeted infantry
forces and armored vehicles.
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