IDF operating in southern Lebanon against rocket launching grounds The IDF is operating in the area of El Khayam in southern Lebanon, an area from which Hezbollah have been firing Katyusha rockets at Metula, Kiryat Shmona and the Galilee panhandle. Israel Radio military affairs correspondent Carmella Menashe reported after midnight (Thursday 00:05) that the IDF Spokesman has now released: 15 IDF soldiers died today in Lebanon – of which one was killed by friendly fire. It was not clear from the description of the various incidents to whatextent the deaths could be attributed to what appears to be an ongoingactive
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Received by email:=====Today 12 reserve soldiers died next to Kibbutz Kfar Giladi. They moved their meeting to [deleted] believing it to be safe but were out in the open, unprotected, during a bombardment of Katyushas. Ironically they died next to the cemetery of Kfar Giladi where Joseph Trumpeldor, one of the greatest soldiers for Eretz Yisrael, is buried. http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/PEOPLE/BIOS/trump.html Yesterday was a Shabbat without Shalom 4 more people died in another flurry of Katyusha missiles. I believe the Hezb-Allah are cornered and dangerous and are letting fly with everything they have in their weapons arsenal. This will be a hard
Read More +Three women were killed Saturday in the Bedouin village of Arab al-Aramshe, near Shlomi in northern Israel, by a Katyusha rocket fired by Hizballah.
Read More +11:30 AM Israel time Rocket hits house near Shlomi Hizbullah renews rocket attacks on Israel; house in Shlomi area along border sustains direct hit Ahiya Raved Rocket fire renewed: Hizbullah fired a barrage of rockets at the Western Galilee in Israel on Monday morning. A house in Shlomi sustained a direct hit. A man was lightly injured. ——————– On Sunday, three people were killed in a rocket attack on Haifa: Labiba Mazawi, 67 from Haifa, Hana Hamam, 62 from Haifa and Ronny Robinsky, 30 from Kiryat Motzkin. Names of 10 killed reservists released The names of 10 of the 12
Read More +Received by email:=====In the middle of the fourth week of the Lebanon War, the tide began to turn in Israel’s favor. DEBKAfile’s military sources report the battlefield finally responded to the effect of Israel’s air might, its tank columns, the pounding by mobile artillery and naval craft and its repeated armored infantry assaults. After losing 44 fighting men, more than 30 civilians, many thousands of wounded and billions of dollars of damage, finally, the Israeli military was given the chance to do what it does best: focus its firepower instead of spreading it out thin over too many targets. The
Read More +Adi Cohen Z”L An IDF Dead Soldier Story
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Another story about an Israeli that you won’t hear about from Martin Bashir. Received by email:=====Adi Cohen, 19 from Hadera grew up near the ocean. He received his red hat only 9 months ago at the “Kumta” ceremony as a member of the 101 paratroopers. Adi’s older brothers Avner, 24, and younger brothers, Tom, 16, and Tomer 13 (only 4 days since bar mitzvah) were very close to Adi. They were proud of the 101 unit of IDF paratroopers. Last week, Adi Cohen was on the second floor of a Hizbollah house in S. Lebanon when a katyusha hit the
Read More +4 August 2006Israel Radio reported this late afternoon that a Hezbullah Katyusha landed in the town of Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
Read More +Updates from various sources
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Received by email, not all sources were named:——————-DebkaFile: Israeli commandoes landed by helicopter Tuesday night kill a number of Hizballah operatives, take prisoners, in operation near east Lebanese stronghold of Baalbek and return safely to base. DEBKAfile reports the Israeli force fought its way into the Dar al Hikmeh hospital which Hizballah’s Beqaa commander Muhammad Yazbek had converted into his staff headquarters. This was the deepest Israeli incursion in Lebanon so far, 150km from the border. Overnight, Lebanese witnesses reported an unprecedented number of Israeli warplanes over the Beqaa valley Tuesday night and aerial strikes against five Hizballah positions near
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