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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Exclusive: Resistance ambushes IOF at Ali al-Taher, 15+ casualties</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time">June 21, 2026</div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><p>Resistance
fighters ambushed an Israeli commando force at Ali al-Taher Hill at
dawn Saturday, killing and wounding over 15 troops, Al Mayadeen's field
sources say.</p><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
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Smoke rises following multiple Israeli attacks on Ali
al-Taher heights near Nabatieh in South Lebanon, on May 8, 2025. (Social
media)
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<p>Resistance fighters in southern Lebanon set up and executed a tight
ambush against an Israeli commando infantry force attempting to
infiltrate the Ali al-Taher Hill at dawn on Saturday, killing and
wounding more than 15 <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/like-sitting-ducks--troops-dying-for-nothing-in-lebanon---is">Israeli officers and soldiers</a>, according to <strong>Al Mayadeen's</strong> field sources.</p>
<p>The Israeli force had been under close surveillance by Resistance
fighters in the lead-up to the operation. When the troops reached the
prepared ambush site, fighters engaged them at close range in clashes
that lasted more than two hours, the sources said.</p>
<p>The ground engagement was accompanied by missile and attack-drone strikes targeting the rear of the advancing Israeli force.</p>
<p>As the ambush unfolded, Israeli troops saturated the area with smoke
shells and carried out airstrikes in an attempt to evacuate <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-attack-kills-israeli-soldier--wounds-13-commando-t">their dead and wounded</a>, according to the same sources.</p>
<h2>Operations Room warning 'translated into action'</h2>
<p><strong>Al Mayadeen's</strong> field sources stressed that the operation made clear that the Resistance's warnings were backed by action on the ground.</p>
<p>Its <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof-infiltration-at-ali-al-taher-mid-ceasefire-thwarted--hez">Operations Room had previously warned</a>
that the Ali al-Taher Hill would remain beyond the reach of the Israeli
occupation, a warning the sources confirmed was carried out overnight
when fighters struck the advancing Israeli force.</p>
<p>The sources added that the coming days may prove <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-occupation-army-acknowledges-fifth-soldier-killed-in">increasingly difficult</a> for the occupation as long as it remains on Lebanese land.</p>
<h2>Field information contradicts Israeli claims of control</h2>
<p>Corroborating what the field sources said, <strong>Al Mayadeen's</strong> correspondent in South Lebanon explained that over the past four days, <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-debunks-ceasefire-breach-claims--cites-300-iof-vio">the occupation</a>
has deployed forces from several brigades, including armored, commando,
and Givati brigades, backed by intense air and ground firepower.</p>
<p>The Resistance has repelled every attempt to advance and inflicted
heavy losses on Israeli forces, with more than 10 Israeli officers and
soldiers killed, according to sources cited by our correspondent.</p>
<p>Our correspondent stressed that Israeli forces have also <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/two-martyrs-in-continued-israeli-attacks-on-southern--easter">targeted civilians</a>
in their homes across several towns in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa
in an attempt to obscure the occupation's failure and mounting losses.</p>
<p>Field information confirms that Israeli forces have so far been
unable to advance due to the Resistance's response, he concluded.</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof--hezbollah-targets--narrative-debunked--lebanon-buries-c">IOF 'Hezbollah targets' narrative debunked; Lebanon buries civilians</a></p>
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