The Slog is on in Bint Jbail
BY Herschel Smith
18 years, 5 months ago
From Haaretz:
A large number of Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded Wednesday in fierce gun battles with Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail.The IDF was involved in efforts Wednesday to retrieve the casualties, even as the heavy clashes continued.
The troops became involved in close-quarter fighting with Hezbollah guerillas in the early hours of Wednesday, despite taking control of the town a day earlier. The fighting has been going on since.
On Tuesday, IDF infantry and armored corps soldiers surrounded the Hezbollah stronghold, but decided against seizing the entire town.Military officials said Golani Brigade infantry troops had surrounded the village Tuesday, imposed a closure and took some houses on the outskirts.
“There is fighting from every direction, including from the air. We are hitting terrorists, we have also taken several prisoners in this fighting. The enemy has more than a few casualties, and overall we are now stabilizing the situation to completely take over the village,” Lieutenant Colonel Itzik Ronen, a deputy brigade commander of a unit operating in the area, told Army Radio.
It looks as if the IDF is now involved in very difficult house to house, room to room clearing to take Bint Jbail.
So much for all those schools and hospitals that Hezbollah started. The final aim of all training, infrastructure, assistance and help from Hezbollah is to enable people to die in house to house fighting. The “religion of peace” at work.
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