Hezbollah intensifies operations, targets Israeli Merkava tank
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The Lebanese Resistance group confirms the tank was directly hit, and its crew fell between dead and injured.
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A Hezbollah Resistance fighter in southern Lebanon aiming an anti-tank missile toward an unknown Israeli occupation target (Hezbollah military media)
Hezbollah announced on Sunday successfully targeted a Merkava tank in the "Al-Rahheb" Israeli occupation military site using anti-tank guided missiles.
In a statement, the Lebanese Resistance group confirmed that the tank was hit directly, resulting in casualties among the crew.
The Israeli occupation army confirmed the operation.
This is the second consecutive targeting that Hezbollah claimed responsibility for on the same day.
Earlier today, an Israeli military outpost located in the settlement of "Shtula" near the Lebanese border was targeted by the Resistance faction with anti-tank guided missiles.
In a statement, Hezbollah said that the operation came in response to the Israeli aggression on a team of journalists on Friday in southern Lebanon, which led to the martyrdom of Lebanese Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah and the wounding of others of his colleagues, the statement said, adding that It is also in response to the Israeli shelling on a civilian home in Shebaa, which resulted in the martyrdom of two elderly Lebanese civilians: Khalil Ali Hashem and Rabab Al-Aaqoum.
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Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation military confirmed the killing of one Israeli and the wounding of five others.
Israeli media said that this is the fifth Israeli killed in under a week in an operation launched by Hezbollah.
On Saturday, Hezbollah announced targeting five Israeli occupation military sites in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms. Precise impacts were recorded.
