Hezbollah destroys Israeli tank advancing on southern border
Hezbollah said it destroyed an Israeli tank advancing on Lebanon's southern border on Thursday.
The group fired rockets at "an Israeli tank as it advanced towards Ras al-Naqoura, leading to its burning and destruction," it said, claiming casualties.
Hezbollah later targeted Israeli troops many times as they tried to evacuate the wounded and the killed soldiers.
The group also attacked troops who tried to enter the southern border town of Mays al-Jabal.
- Israeli releases video showing 'weapons in Lebanese home' -
The Israeli military released a video Thursday showing what it says are piles of weapons stored inside a house in south Lebanon.
The military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, appears in the video, saying it was filed in a village in Lebanon near the Israeli border.
He said the weapons show how Hezbollah has turned homes into military “bases” as part of a planned raid on northern Israel and that the army was going house to house to dismantle the militant’s group capabilities.
Hagari has held regular briefings throughout the war, but this is the first time he has spoken "from inside Lebanon." Thursday’s video was made for the international media, and Hagari spoke in English.
“I want you to see with your own eyes what we found here today. In this house, a storage of gear waiting for Hezbollah’s Radwan forces with vests, helmets, night vision, mines,” Hagari says. He goes on to show grenades, sniper rifles and explosive rocket-propelled grenades. He did not say which village he was standing in.
The Israeli army had earlier posted a photo of an Israeli flag in Maround al-Ras. Lebanese media said the photo is not inside the village but on its border behind UNIFIL's positions. Hezbollah had said its fighters won't attack Israeli soldiers near peacekeepers to preserve the peacekeepers' lives.
Source: Agence France Presse
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