[News] Hezbollah reveals Israeli army losses in Lebanon: Over 1, 300 casualties, 59 tanks destroyed

[Anti-Imperialist News]

  Hezbollah reveals Israeli army losses in Lebanon: Over 1,300
  casualties, 59 tanks destroyed

The resistance group declared victory over its 'delusional enemy,' 
highlighting that the combined power of Israel and its allies 'could not 
undermine the resolve' of its fighters

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

NOV 28, 2024 
-https://thecradle.co/articles/hezbollah-reveals-israeli-army-losses-in-lebanon-over-1300-casualties-59-tanks-destroyed

(Photo Credit: AZIZ TAHER/REUTERS)

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah issued its first statement 
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/beacon-of-victory--hezbollah-s-operations-room-issues-statem> 
since the start of a ceasefire with Israel on 27 November, revealing 
that its forces killed at least 130 Israeli soldiers and injured about 
1,250 in under two months of battles inside Lebanon.

“The Resistance remained steadfast in its pledge and struggle for more 
than 13 months and was able to achieve victory against the delusional 
enemy, rendering it incapable of diminishing its determination or 
breaking its resolve,” Hezbollah's 4,638th statement since 8 October 
2023 reads.

The movement revealed that its troops conducted 1,666 military 
operations since 17 September 
<https://thecradle.co/articles/hundreds-injured-across-lebanon-after-communication-devices-explode> 
– the start of the expanded Israeli aggression against Lebanon – 
averaging 23 operations per day.

Parallel to these, Hezbollah also says it launched 105 special ‘Khaybar 
<https://thecradle.co/articles/hezbollah-begins-khaybar-operations-against-israel-targeting-key-intel-facilities>’ 
operations, which started following the assassination of former leader 
Hassan Nasrallah. These special operations targeted sensitive sites as 
deep as 150 kilometers inside Israel using advanced ballistic rockets, 
cruise missiles, and high-end assault drones.

Inside Lebanon, the resistance says it destroyed 59 Merkava tanks, 11 
military bulldozers, two Humvees, two armored vehicles, and two 
personnel carriers. Successful anti-air operations also brought down six 
Hermes 450 drones, two Hermes 900 drones, and a quadcopter.

“Throughout the entirety of the Israeli ground operation into Lebanese 
territories … the invading forces failed to occupy or settle in any of 
the frontline towns, which had been under fire since the start of 
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” Hezbollah says in its statement, adding that 
Tel Aviv “failed to establish an isolated military and security zone, 
and was unable to obstruct rocket and drone launches into occupied 
territories.”

“This is a direct product of the perseverance of the fighters on the 
battlefield, who continued striking enemy targets deep into occupied 
[Palestine] from the frontlines and border villages until the final day 
of aggression.”

Hezbollah also calls the second phase 
<https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-begins-2nd-phase-of-ground-operation-in-southern-lebanon-report/3392188> 
of the Israeli ground invasion “nothing but a political and media 
declaration as the enemy was unable to advance into second-tier towns on 
the southern front.”

On 12 November, Israeli media reported that the army “initiated the 
second phase of the ground maneuver in southern Lebanon, with the 36th 
Division advancing toward Hezbollah’s second defensive line” in an 
attempt to take control of the southern town of Khiam.

“[Israel] suffered significant losses in Khiam, from which it withdrew 
three times, as well as in Ainata, Tallousa, Bint Jbeil, and Al-Qawzah,” 
Hezbollah revealed on Wednesday.

“The only attempt to advance was to the towns of Bayada and Shamaa in 
the western sector, which became a graveyard for tanks and elite 
soldiers of the enemy army, who withdrew from it under the blows of the 
resistance,” the statement reads, highlighting that over “300 defense 
lines south of the Litani River” were established before the ground 
invasion. “What happened in Bayada and Khiam is the best evidence.”

As the first day of the US and French-mediated ceasefire deal comes to a 
close, the Lebanese resistance is reminding Israel and its allies that 
“fighters from various military specialties will remain fully prepared 
to deal with the enemy’s ambitions and attacks.”

The group also says that it will closely monitor the withdrawal of 
Israeli forces from the Lebanese border region, which needs to be 
completed within 60 days. “[Our] hands will remain on the trigger, in 
defense of Lebanon’s sovereignty and for the sake of the dignity and 
honor of its people,” Hezbollah says.

Finally, the Lebanese resistance confirmed it will “continue standing by 
the side of the oppressed, the weak, and the mujahideen in Palestine 
with its capital, Holy Jerusalem, which will remain a title and a path 
for generations dreaming of freedom and liberation.”

Hezbollah opened a support front for the Palestinian resistance in Gaza 
against Israel on 8 October 2023, trading fire across the border for 
months. The Lebanese resistance moved from being a support to a direct 
front against Israel on 1 August 
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26225> after the assassination of top 
war commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut.

A few weeks later, Israeli intelligence agencies set off thousands of 
bombs implanted inside communication devices all across Lebanon and 
significantly intensified airstrikes across the country. On 1 October, 
Israel officially began what it called a “limited” ground invasion 
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/27031> of southern Lebanon to force 
Hezbollah to withdraw behind the Litani River and guarantee 
<https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-failed-to-achieve-war-goals-outrage-in-north-israel-over-lebanon-ceasefire> 
the “safe return” of settlers to the north.
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