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hubs. The Zionist forces are trying to advance and centralize in Rmeish, Shihin, Aytaroun, Bint Jubeil, Al-Taybeh, Ayta Al-Shaab, Udaissa, and Kafarkela. On the other hand, the resistance fighters are bursting through the ambushes in front of the tanks and armored vehicles, and then destroying them with their rockets and their bullets and their hearts.
The enemy at the battlefront is fighting with six military squads" from the "Golani", the "Paratroopers", and the "Nahal" brigades, in addition to the mechanical and armored battalions, under the cover of heavy and nonstop bombardment from war craft and helicopters that continued day and night. The artillery bombing also backed up the invading ground forces.
The Zionist troops clash with the resistance fighters thinking they would be distracted from guarding the back lines while preoccupied in fighting at the front lines. Therefore, each five or six hours, the Zionist army carries out landing attempts behind the front lines; and each time, the "Israeli" soldiers clash there with the resistance groups that await for the Zionists until they land, and then surround them and attack them with the adequate weaponry and artillery. Soon later, the "Israeli" war craft intervene to save the trapped soldiers and to retrieve the dead bodies and wounded of the "elite" soldiers.
The enemy claimed to enter "Shihin"; but with the early morning hours, the Zionist public were told by the same source that their army suffered heavy losses there, starting with two tanks and a military Bulldozer. Meanwhile, the Zionist forces were being targeted by the resistance fires and having their "Merkavas" destroyed. The "Men of God" in the Islamic resistance reported of 49 casualties among the Zionist soldiers, while the "Israeli" forces claimed that one soldier was killed and 17 were injured during the morning clashes.
The fierce military confrontations in Shihin -the Lebanese village with significant proximity to the borders with occupied Palestine- continued, and the Zionist enemy discovered that the resistance fighters are as prepared, steadfast, and in control as in Maroon Al-Rass that was half-liberated by now, and its other half, that was still occupied by "Israeli" soldiers, is under the resistance`s fire and rockets.
Remarkable confrontations are taking place at Udaissa-Kafarkela, which are two Lebanese villages that touch with what is known as the "Blue Line". There, the resistance men are surrounding most of the enemy`s armored and infantry brigades, after leading them on to deadly ambushes. Add to all this the obvious issue that became a fact understood by the "elite" soldiers, which is that the back-up squads, whose mission is to withdraw the dead and wounded soldiers from lost battles, are arriving late, even when the battlefield is so close to the settlements!
In Meyss Al-Jabal, Mhaybeeb hill, a similar scene takes place.
By the way, "Mhaybeeb" is not a village, as some Lebanese and Arab media sources are implying; it is in fact a hill in the bordering village, Meyss Al-Jabal; the word "Mhaybeeb" is the name of a prophet, and the hill is named after him. "Mhaybeeb" hill is facing the Zionist settlement, "Al-Manarah", which is very close to Meyss Al-Jabal village, and which was inflamed by the resistance fighters` direct rockets and "60 and 80" mortar rounds. "Al-Manarah" settlement does not require Katyusha rockets to reach it; the rockets being fired at Metula settlement, Grad 106, can easily reach the targets there, and they are the ones that the resistance fighters are mainly using to target it.
The new phenomenon in the confrontation of the resistance with the Zionist enemy is that the "Golani", "Nahal", and "Paratroopers" forces, which spread all along the borders, no longer hold on in the battlefield. For instance, whenever a tank is hit and the clashes begin, the rest of the armored vehicles, followed by the infantry troops, retreat under heavy aerial cover. In some cases, the clashes continue in posterior locations, 500 to 800 meters behind the initial line of confrontations.
Add to that the shock that the "elite" leadership suffered after receiving the reports of what happened during Wednesday-Thursday night. That night, while the enemy clashed with "the Men of God" at the middle and eastern military hubs, "Al-Akhyar" units of the Islamic resistance attacked the "Israeli" forces behind the battlefront line, and specifically inside the "Israeli" settlements: "Al-Raheb", "Khallat El-Warda", and "Zarit", which is in fact the Lebanese village, Hounin, and which is one of the seven Lebanese villages that "Israel" occupied in 1948. The clashes also reached "Shtoula" settlement, which is the occupied Lebanese village, "Salha".
As a result, the Zionist infantry units had to fight the resistance fighters at the main military hubs, and also behind the battle lines inside the settlement, which forced the enemy to withdraw from several locations and reduce the intensity of the clashes.
Also, the enemy had to deal with another problem: The occupation posts clashed with resistance groups in occupied Shabaa Farms, where a rockets and artillery battle took place and lasted for more than ten hours. Resistance fighters from the battlefield assured that their rockets hit their targets directly.
The yield of the last two days of confrontations is no less than sixty casualties among the Zionist troops, in addition to burning more than ten "Merkava" tanks... And what is more interesting about this war is that the "Israeli" government and its army became in their media like the Arab media in the past; they write and talk about victories; and hours later, their public and media discover that they are being deluded and misinformed, being told about imaginary victories and achievements in Maroun Al-Rass, Ayta Al-Shaab, Mayss Al-Jabal, Rmeish, Shihin, Udaissa, Kafarkela, and Al-Taybeh... And later they receive the dead and wounded of their "undefeatable" army.
- Source: Al-Diyar Newspaper, 04/08/2006.
- Translated by the English division Of Wa3ad.org.