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<div class="gmail-inner-article-top"><h1 class="gmail-">'Unable to advance': Hezbollah details staggering Israeli losses in three weeks of war</h1><p class="gmail-">The Israeli army has incurred about 700 casualties since beginning ground infiltrations into Lebanon early this month </p><div class="gmail-another-name"><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9" style="color:rgb(164,4,4)">News Desk</a></p></div><div class="gmail-another-name" style="margin-top:16px"><p><span>OCT 24, 2024 -<font size="1"> </font></span><font size="1"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/unable-to-advance-hezbollah-details-staggering-israeli-losses-in-three-weeks-of-war">https://thecradle.co/articles/unable-to-advance-hezbollah-details-staggering-israeli-losses-in-three-weeks-of-war</a></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-img"><img src="http://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/61ae9e36-91e3-11ef-8156-00163e02c055.webp" alt="" width="464" height="261" style="margin-right: 0px;"><span>(Photo credit: Hezbollah Military Media)</span></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-content"><div class="gmail-row"><div class="gmail-col-md-8 gmail-col-sm-7"><div class="gmail-article-content"><span><p>Hezbollah
fighters have killed over 70 Israeli army soldiers and officers in
southern Lebanon and have injured hundreds, the resistance group’s <a href="https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B9-%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%AB%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86-70-%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1-28-%D8%AF%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9--%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD">Operations Room</a> said in a statement on 23 October. </p><p>“The
enemy's losses, according to what the Islamic Resistance fighters
monitored, amounted to more than 70 dead and more than 600 wounded
officers and soldiers of the Israeli enemy army,” the statement said. </p><p>It
adds that 28 Merkava tanks, four military bulldozers, an armed vehicle,
and an armored troop carrier were destroyed by the Lebanese
resistance. </p><p>The toll “does not include the Israeli enemy's losses
in military bases, sites and barracks in the north and depth of
occupied Palestine.” </p><p>The statement confirms that Israeli forces
have not been able to establish control over or occupy any villages and
that the troops have only been able to advance short distances into
southern Lebanese villages, given the intensity of the resistance’s
operations. </p><p>It detailed several recent operations on the
different axes in which the Israeli army is trying to advance into
numerous villages. </p><p>“The enemy forces attempted to infiltrate
towards the town of Taybeh … but our fighters confronted them with
machine guns and rockets, resulting in a large number of dead and
wounded among the infiltrating force. When an enemy support force
attempted to advance to retrieve the casualties, our fighters confronted
them, inflicting more losses on them and forcing them to retreat,”
Hezbollah said.</p><p>Fierce clashes at close range have inflicted heavy losses on Israeli forces, as well as longer-range rocket attacks that target <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/dozens-of-israeli-soldiers-injured-by-hezbollah-drone-on-lebanon-border">troops</a> as they attempt to advance. </p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p>In
one incident in which Hezbollah’s fighters ambushed troops in a
municipality building in one of the villages, Israeli army evacuation
operations took hours due to the resistance repeatedly attacking the
rescue forces. </p><p>Hezbollah confirmed that its rocket, missile, and drone <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/sirens-blare-in-tel-aviv-as-hezbollah-attacks-unit-8200-base">operations</a> are “gradually increasing day after” on the border and “all the way to the depths of occupied Palestine.” </p><p>It also confirmed that precision missiles have recently been used for the first time. </p><p>The
Israeli army has not released an updated figure of the number of
soldiers who have been killed in south Lebanon ground operations. Strict
military censorship is also regularly imposed on Hezbollah rocket and
drone attacks deep in Israel. </p><p>A Hezbollah drone exploded into the
window of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Caesarea home on
19 October. Less than a week earlier, at least four Golani Brigade
soldiers were killed and dozens wounded when a Hezbollah drone attack
hit their military base south of Haifa. </p></span></div></div></div></div>
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