Israel Ends Ground Military Offensive in Lebanon

CROSSFIREARABIA – The Israeli army announced the end of its ground invasion of southern Lebanon as reported by Channel 11 and the Kann official channel.

The announcement, which is trending was made, Friday evening and would take one to two weeks for a complete withdrawal.

The news of the end of ground operations was made after the Israeli army suffered huge losses against Hezbollah fighters.

This is seen as a humiliating defeat for the Israel army which has been trying to enter Lebanon from the south and east of the country through the occupied Golan Heights since the beginning of October.

On the southern Lebanese border Israeli troops made some in-roads over the past weeks, but they would go in one or two kilometers inside Lebanese territory but quickly withdraw because of heavy resistance from Hezbollah fighters.

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Bloodbath

The spokesperson for foreign affairs of the Sweden Social Democratic Party, Morgan Johansson, condemned the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation during the ongoing war in Gaza, describing them as a bloodbath.

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Israeli Soldiers Discover Lebanon is No Joyride

The Israeli occupation army announced, Friday morning, the killing of two officers and three other soldiers in battles in southern Lebanon, bringing the announced death toll to 10 in less than 24 hours.

Israeli army radio said the Lebanese Hezbollah launched rockets intensively the previous Thursday night towards the forces stationed in a village in southern Lebanon.

It reported Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets towards a gathering of the occupation army inside a village in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon, and one of the rockets fell near a building where a force from the 89th Battalion was present according to Jordan24.

This is addition to fighters from a logistical convoy that was about to leave the place after renewing the force’s supplies to continue fighting. As a result of the rocket attack, 24 soldiers were injured, five of whom were killed, four were seriously injured, seven were moderately injured, and eight were slightly injured.

Israeli media reported that the dead included the deputy commander of the 89th Battalion, and all five dead were from the 8th Armored Brigade, 89th Battalion.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense announced 890 soldiers, officers, police officers, and security personnel were killed since October 7 of last year.

The Israeli army reported in a statement published by Israeli media four reserve soldiers were killed and six others were wounded during a clash with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, Wednesday, when a group of Hezbollah fighters emerged from a tunnel in a rugged area and threw hand grenades at the force.

It pointed out that the number of dead does not include settlers and that among them are 808 officers and soldiers from the Israeli army, 75 members of the Israeli police, and 7 members of the General Security Service (Shabak).

Since September 23, the occupation forces have expanded the scope of the genocide they have been committing in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, to include most areas of Lebanon, including the capital Beirut, through unprecedentedly violent and intense airstrikes, and have also begun a ground incursion into the south, disregarding international warnings and UN resolutions.

The aggression on Lebanon has resulted in the deaths of 2,574 people and the injury of more than 12,000 others, including a large number of women and children, in addition to more than 1,340,000 displaced persons.

Hezbollah Statistics

Hezbollah, and with numbers and statistics drawn up the latest heavy losses it inflicted on the Israeli occupation forces, despite the intensive aerial bombardment.

Hezbollah confirmed that the Israeli army was unable to occupy any of the villages on the front edge of southern Lebanon, confirming that its elements confronted the Israeli forces on five axes on the border according to Al Jazeera.

The party said 70 Israeli soldiers were killed and more than 600 wounded in addition to the destruction of 28 Merkava tanks, four military bulldozers, an armored vehicle, and an armored personnel carrier, in addition to the shooting down four drones.

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Israeli Strikes Kill 3 Journalists in South Lebanon

Three Lebanese journalists were killed, Friday morning, in the village of Hasbya as they were sleeping in a vicious Israeli attack.

It was a dawn raid that killed Al Mayadeen cameraman Ghassan Najjar and broadcast engineer Mohammad Reda. The raid also killed Wissam Kassem who worked, also as a cameraman for Al Manar TV.

News is trending on the social media with reports of a compound that was struck in the Hasbaya village that also resulted in the wounding of three other journalists.

The Lebanese Civil Defense confirmed the martyrdom of the three journalists who were deliberately targeted.

Charred vehicles in the compound were clearly marked with the “Press” logo according to the Lebanese media.

The targeting of the guest-house compound in the south-east of the country has sparked an international outcry on the need to protect journalists.

One blogger says: “The Zionist cowards have murdered three Lebanese journalists in their beds as they slept,” whilst the “compound in Hasbaiyya was bombed deliberately and with warning by Israel.”  

A Lebanese minister calls the killing of the three journalists as a war crime.

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Thousands Rally in Amman For Gaza

Thousands held a rally, Friday in downtown Amman, Jordan, in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Lebanon in the face of the ongoing Israeli aggression.

The great march started after the Friday noon prayers from the famous Al-Husseini Mosque under the slogan “Cancel the shameful Wadi Araba Treaty”.

Participants denounced the genocide the Gazans are being subjected by the Israeli army with unlimited American and Western support whilst denouncing the international and Arab silence despite the massacres against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The participants called on the government and Arab countries to take the necessary measures to stop the genocide and stop all forms of normalization with the Israeli army and called on Jordan government to cancel the 1994 Wadi Araba Agreement and the latest gas agreement.

The participants affirmed their support for the Palestinian resistance factions, led by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), noting the resistance constitutes the first line of defense against the Zionist expansionist project that targets Jordan as it targets Palestine according to Jordan24.

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