{"id":2637,"date":"2024-10-23T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/hezbollah-hits-six-israeli-merkava-tanks-in-southern-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T05:00:00","slug":"hezbollah-hits-six-israeli-merkava-tanks-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/hezbollah-hits-six-israeli-merkava-tanks-in-southern-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah hits six Israeli Merkava tanks in southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2024\/10\/23\/4\/5217717.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>In the latest operations, Hezbollah said on Tuesday that it hit six Israeli Merkava tanks in different locations south of the Arab country, using guided missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, while a force of Israeli enemy soldiers were advancing towards the targeted Merkava tank on the outskirts of the town of Taybeh, at 02:00 pm on Tuesday, 22-10-2024, the combatants of the Islamic Resistance targeted it with a guided missile and inflicted confirmed casualties including the dead and wounded,\u201d Hezbollah said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Another statement said that \u201ccombatants of the Islamic Resistance targeted a Merkava tank in the vicinity of \u2018Misgav Am\u2019 with a guided missile, which led to its burning and the death and injury of its crew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Resistance group also shot down a Hermes 450 drone over the Lebanese town of Jebchit, PressTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Barrages of Hezbollah rockets also hit gatherings of Israeli soldiers in Aita Al-Shaab and Khallet Al-Asaker, within the Lebanese borders, and Kiryat Shmona and Manara settlements in occupied Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>The Hezbollah statement said that \u201cat 10:00 pm on Tuesday, 22-10-2024, the combatants\u00a0of the Islamic Resistance targeted movements of \u2018Israeli\u2019 enemy soldiers in Malikiyah with a rocket barrage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group also launched a squadron of suicide drones on the regime\u2019s Eliakim base south of occupied Haifa.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. As many as 2,483 Lebanese people have been killed and 11,628 others wounded as a result of the regime\u2019s intensified attacks against the country.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/223407\/Hezbollah-hits-six-Israeli-Merkava-tanks-in-southern-Lebanon\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest operations, Hezbollah said on Tuesday that it hit six Israeli Merkava tanks in different locations south of the Arab country, using guided missiles. \u201cIn support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}