Israeli media says operations on Lebanon border is 'war of attrition'
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The Israeli occupation says they are engaged in a war of attrition with the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon amid recent border flare ups and mass tensions.
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Israeli tanks are stationed near the border with Lebanon on October 11, 2023 (AP)
The situation in the northern borders of occupied Palestine is becoming a real war of attrition against "Israel" and the Israeli occupation forces, Israeli media said on the sixth day since the start of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
What is happening in the North is "simply a war of attrition on the Lebanese border," a Channel 12 correspondent said about the escalation and the increased tensions witnessed at the border two days after three Israeli soldiers, including a colonel, were killed during confrontations with freedom fighters and after Hezbollah fired rockets at the IOF.
The spokesperson for the Israeli occupation forces said Thursday that "the Northern Command is at peak alertness. We are currently examining warnings; we are in a state of extreme readiness and high alert in the north."
Addressing the mistaken launch of a Patriot missile today and the activation of the Emergency Alert System in northern occupation Palestine on Wednesday, wherein the Israeli occupation believed that a swarm of drones and gliders were conducting an infiltration from Lebanon, which later turned out to be an error, the IOF spokesperson said: "Part of this alertness and readiness pushes us to respond to false alarms by launching interception missiles, and today we launched a Patriot missile in response to a false alarm."
UAVs and possibly paratroopers and paragliders infiltrated the occupied Palestinian-Lebanese borders sending shockwaves throughout the Israeli occupation in a step that potentially stokes the existing tensions in the region, Israeli media reported Wednesday, meanwhile, it turned out to be a fluke.
The security operation carried out in northern Palestine, whose presumed origin in Lebanon, overwhelmed the Israeli occupation and caused sirens to sound all over occupied Northern Palestine, with nearly every single settlement activating its EAS.
Israeli media reported that preliminary reports suggest that dozens of UAVs were launched from Lebanon toward the Israeli settlements erected in northern occupied Palestine.
Meanwhile, some outlets suggested that the UAVs were launched in tandem with paratroopers and paragliders taking into the airspace of occupied Palestine from Lebanon.
"Launching missiles based on a false alarm is better than missing a real one," he said, with a translator saying during the live broadcast: "I wish he hadn't said that... What a disgrace."
"We have informed the families of 245 fallen Israeli soldiers, and we have informed the families of 97 missing individuals" that said individuals died or were taken captive by the Palestinian Resistance, respectively.
North at threat of deterioration
The former head of the Israeli occupation's Military Intelligence Division (Aman), Tamir Hayman reported in an interview on Channel 12 that "the danger of deterioration in the North is very clear."
"We expect to see more of these incidents because it aligns with Hezbollah's interest," he said. "Creating tensions on the northern borders aims to exhaust Israel and divert its attention from the south."
He also emphasized that the real problem in any potential war is not the strength of the Rodwan force on the fence but rather the "quantity of firepower that Hezbollah possesses and the damage it can inflict on the home front."
Hayman warned that "the home front is already tense and does not need the burden of another one."
The assertions from the Israeli occupation come after AFP reported earlier in the day that an Israeli settlement turned into a "ghost town" after growing fears of Israelis that it could be hit by a Hezbollah rocket from Lebanon.
The northern settlement of "Rosh Hanikra" [occupied Ras al-Naqoura] had numerous abandoned vehicles and empty roads following the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Mohammad Deif, Commander-in-Chief of al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said that the operation was launched in response to the Israeli occupation's desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as multiple assaults against women in its courtyards.
The IOF spokesperson confirmed that the death toll of IOF members had reached over 220, and there were 60 occupation soldiers that were captured and are being in the Gaza Strip.
Abu Hamza: Lebanon events sheer example of what is awaiting 'Israel'
The military spokesperson for Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) - Abu Hamza revealed on Wednesday that the battle may soon expand to include the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948, stressing that the battle is no longer limited to the Gaza Strip.
In an audio speech regarding the developments of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Abu Hamza said that other fronts may soon join in the battle.
He stressed that the scope of fire was expanding and that what the Israeli occupation witnessed in South Lebanon was merely a small example of what was awaiting the enemy, reassuring everyone that victory was just around the corner.
Addressing the Resistance in the West Bank, Abu Hamza called on the Jenin and Lions' Den brigades, as well as the Palestinians to engage in confrontations with the Israeli occupation.
Furthermore, the military spokesperson threatened the Israeli occupation, “We have come prepared for you outside Palestine just as we were inside Palestine, and the events that unfolded in the Gaza Envelope shall be mirrored in other battlegrounds.”
