[News] Hezbollah thwarts Israeli attempt to infiltrate south Lebanon

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Hezbollah thwarts Israeli attempt to infiltrate south Lebanon

The Lebanese resistance also targeted two military sites in the Galilee
with several drones, inflicting casualties on Israeli soldiers

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

AUG 19, 2024 -
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Hezbollah
<https://thecradle.co/articles/hezbollah-reveals-massive-underground-base-reminds-israel-retaliation-imminent>
launched several operations against Israeli forces and military sites on 19
August, including an attack to prevent infiltrating troops into south
Lebanon.

“In response to the attack and assassination carried out by the Israeli
enemy in the Qadmus area, the Islamic Resistance fighters launched a
simultaneous air attack on Monday 8-19-2024 with squadrons of suicide
drones on the Yara barracks (the headquarters of the Western Brigade 300)
and the Sanat Jin base (a logistical base affiliated with the Northern
Region Command),” Hezbollah said on Monday.

The attack “targeted the locations of their officers and soldiers – hitting
their targets accurately and inflicting a number of deaths and injuries
among them,” the statement added.

Hebrew news site *Ynet* <https://www.ynet.co.il/blogs/gazawar318day> said
at least three drones entered the Galilee, some being intercepted and
others exploding, causing casualties in the Yara area.

The Israeli army said
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/soldier-killed-another-seriously-hurt-in-hezbollah-drone-attack-on-western-galilee/>
one was soldier was killed and several wounded, including one seriously, in
the Yara barracks.

Hezbollah also announced an artillery and rocket attack on troop
deployments in Israel’s Zarit barracks, “leading to destruction and the
outbreak of fires in it,” the resistance group said in its second statement
of the day.

The Lebanese resistance said earlier on Monday that its fighters prevented
an Israeli force from infiltrating into the south of Lebanon.

“After monitoring and following up on the presence of Israeli enemy forces,
and upon observing the infiltration of a group of its soldiers into the
Hadab Aita forest, the Islamic Resistance fighters confronted them on
Monday 8-19-2024 and targeted them with rockets and artillery shells, which
forced them to retreat and inflicted confirmed casualties on them,”
Hezbollah said during the early hours of 19 August, marking its first
operation of the week.

Israel carried out several airstrikes on southern Lebanon on 19 and 18
August.

Hezbollah announced on Sunday the death of Fadi Qassem Kanaan, a member of
the Lebanese Resistance Brigades – a multi-confessional brigade founded by
Hezbollah in the late 1990s, which has been taking part in operations
against Israel.

Israel’s allies have been scrambling to prevent Iran and Hezbollah from
retaliating for the Israeli attacks on their capitals last month. The
assassination of top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut on 30 July
killed several civilians, including children.

Washington has expressed hope that reaching an agreement to end the war in
Gaza could stymie an incoming response and avoid a larger-scale regional
war. Ceasefire
<https://thecradle.co/articles/hamas-reveals-details-of-latest-us-proposal-for-gaza-ceasefire-report>
talks – which took place in Qatar on Friday – ended without any progress,
as Hamas opted out of this latest round due to constant obstruction and
procrastination from Netanyahu.

Hezbollah has repeatedly vowed that it will not stop operations until the
war in Gaza ends and has promised a harsh retaliation to Shukr’s
assassination in the Lebanese capital.
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