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The Palestine Chronicle – April 20, 2026
Key Developments
- Hezbollah targets Israeli armored convoy with pre-planted explosive devices.
- Four Merkava tanks destroyed in coordinated double-wave ambush.
- Israeli losses continue following earlier deadly IED incidents.
Ambush Destroys Israeli Armor
The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah carried out a coordinated ambush against an Israeli armored convoy in southern Lebanon, destroying multiple tanks and inflicting further losses on occupation forces.
According to Al Mayadeen, the convoy, consisting of eight armored vehicles, was targeted on Sunday as it moved from the town of Taybeh toward the old Al-Sal‘a outpost near Deir Siryan.
The Resistance said the attack was executed using a chain of pre-planted explosive devices that detonated in two successive waves between 3:40 pm and 4:40 PM.
The explosions resulted in the destruction of four Merkava tanks, which were seen engulfed in flames.
By 6:00 PM, Israeli occupation forces had begun withdrawing the damaged vehicles from the area.
The ambush came amid continued Israeli military activity in southern Lebanon, despite the ceasefire that came into effect days earlier.
According to Al Mayadeen, Israeli occupation forces have carried out repeated violations, including incursions, bombardment, and ongoing ground movements.
The movement of the armored column itself was part of these continued operations inside Lebanese territory.
⚠️ Video | Islamic Resistance targets Israeli Merkava tank in Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon during a resistance operation. pic.twitter.com/OamEwaxIUL
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) April 20, 2026
Israeli Losses Continue to Mount
The latest ambush follows a series of deadly incidents targeting Israeli troops in southern Lebanon over the past two days.
Israeli military sources confirmed that a reservist soldier was killed and nine others were wounded in an improvised explosive device explosion in the border village of Kfar Kila. The soldier belonged to the 7106th Battalion of the 769th ‘Hiram’ Regional Brigade.
In a separate incident a day earlier, another reservist was killed and three soldiers were wounded when an explosive device detonated during a building search operation in the village of Jebbayn.
Israeli media reports indicate that at least 36 soldiers were killed or wounded between Saturday and Sunday.
Expanding Israeli Military Presence
Israeli occupation forces continue to operate within what they describe as an “advanced defense zone” extending from Ras al-Bayyada on the coast to Shebaa in the east.
The zone, which stretches several kilometers into Lebanese territory, is seen as an attempt to impose a new military reality on the ground.
According to Israeli statements, the objective includes maintaining long-term control over areas along the border.
Hezbollah: Ceasefire Not One-Sided
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said the Resistance remains fully prepared to respond to any Israeli violations.
He stressed that a ceasefire requires a complete halt to hostilities and cannot be applied selectively.
Qassem said the Resistance does not trust Israeli commitments and will maintain operational readiness in the field.
He outlined key conditions for the next phase, including a full Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territory, the return of displaced residents, and the launch of reconstruction efforts.
‘Most Challenging Enemy’
Israeli media have warned of a growing battlefield challenge facing the occupation army, driven by Hezbollah’s evolving drone capabilities.
According to Al Mayadeen, citing Israeli newspaper Maariv, military analyst Avi Ashkenazi reported that Hezbollah has deployed drones guided through fiber-optic systems rather than wireless or satellite signals, effectively bypassing Israeli electronic warfare defenses.
Ashkenazi noted that the use of these systems has allowed Hezbollah to operate drones beyond previously estimated ranges, while maintaining direct control that cannot be intercepted or jammed.
Israeli military officials reportedly told Maariv that the technology has disrupted operational movement on the ground, complicating both armored maneuvers and infantry deployment.
Commanders within the 162nd Division described Hezbollah as “the most challenging enemy,” pointing to the precision and effectiveness of these systems in targeting forces and limiting battlefield mobility.
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The citizens of Lebanon fight back and they’re “resisting” – the jews have invaded and are trying to take over their country remember.
In the jewkraine, when the Russians went in to rescue the people in the Donbass etc, it was the other way around – the Russians were “invading”.
It’s important to remember what your jewish masters tell you so you don’t make a faux pas at your bar mitzvah.
Thank God someone is effectively fighting back against these Israeli demons
this is such good news
rothschild takes billions from us each year
rothschild and israel must be smashed
God is not on the side of Pissrael who gets ass kicked by Hezbollah
Hungary’s new PM: I will arrest Netanyahu
Story by Joe Barnes • 1h
Hungary would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if the Israeli prime minister visited the country under its new leadership,
the prime minister-elect has said.
Peter Magyar said the country would respect its obligation to detain terrorist leaders on its territory if they were sought by the International Criminal Court.
Mr Magyar also said he would halt a decision by his predecessor Viktor Orbán to quit the Hague-based tribunal.
In the UK the petition to arrest Nutenyahu
has reached 3 million signatures
A petition is being considered to stop all payments to rothschild
interest fees alone are £ 5000 per second
Dead jew murderers. Great !!!
Whinging jews !!! Great !!!
The Israeli high command wants the invasion to look difficult for the IDF. It needs the resistance to justify the land grab and as a pretext to either murder the inhabitants or to drive them off their lands and into the north. Israel does not intend the relinquish the lands. Maintaining their huge land grab in Syria after Trump was elected in 2024 and Russia on cue abandoned Syria, the Israelis have no intention of giving up any of the stolen Lebanese lands, or those they filched in Syria. They want the war against Iran to continue along with the Straight of Hormuz continuing to be plugged up, with the US sticking its neck out, as it is serving as a diversion from the Israeli crimes going on in Lebanon, which from the point of view of their goal of a “Greater Israel” in fact, is the principal reason they started the war with Iran in the first place.
For expansion into Gaza the Israelis needed the threat from Hamas. For their usurpations in Lebanon they needed the resistance of Hezbollah and the cover of the bigger war with Iran, which nation they also want to destroy as they cannot have a power sticking up for non-Jewish people in the region. This does not mean that the rank and file in the resistance organizations against Israeli are consciously working for Israel. Nor does it mean that their leadership is controlled opposition, although in the case of Hamas in Gaza that was the case. What it means is the Hezbollah and the Iranians have no choice but to fight back in self defense, and that very hostility is a very controlled by the US and Israel in order to serve mainly Jewish interests, in the region and not just for gobble up Iran’s resources for the West.
The IDF has over 150,000 active military personnel with a potential of calling up another 300,000. It has the most advanced technology on the planet. Hezbollah has at most an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 fighters, and it is mainly reliant on armaments only from Iran and Russia, which is quickly disappearing. It has no heavy equipment.
The Lebanese government is a puppet of the West meaning that it is a puppet of the US, and its military which is no match for anything, is dependent on the US, which is the main backer of Israel.
Russia is out for Russia and ever since the 1917 Revolution it has been controlled by the Jewish money power.
Russia abandoned Syria in a deal where it is getting a huge hunk of the Ukraine. It is already abandoning Iran and will get much more of the Ukraine in another Zio deal taking place. Over the past month Russia dismantled its nuclear plant in Iran and recalled all of its scientist. The reason for the war against Iran is mainly to serve Jewish interests and the Greater Israel Project. That is now “a given”. Also, the reason for the war in the Ukraine is to serve the same Zio interests. The US is owned and controlled by the same powers. Since the 2014 US-engineered “revolution” in the Ukraine, the US has been in control of that nation, meaning that Zio interest are in control, which also means that the Ukrainian provocations against Russia, serving as a pretext for the 2022 Russian invasion were mainly to serve those same Zio interests.
International Jewry controlling the Ukraine and the war in the Ukraine, has no love for the Ukrainian people, who have been dispersed around the world in greater numbers than their Syrian victims, or in any past Jewish dispersion. They have no love for the Ukrainian people after WWII. They never forget. They never forgive. They never admit or take any responsibility for their own wrongs against other peoples. They will ensure that Russia and other sources give Hezbollah only enough arms to make a good fight of it in order to justify the Israeli invasions as a self-defensive necessity from all of those outsiders whom they say “hate and want to kill them.”
Gaza needs more than $71 billion for recovery and reconstruction, EU-UN report says
Story by Clara Nabaa •
More than $71 billion (€60.3bn) will be needed over the next decade for recovery and reconstruction in war-ravaged Gaza, according to an EU-UN assessment published Monday.
The international courts are expecting israel to pay reparations
They refused when they set the stuxnet virus on iran and it went viral almost destroying japan
Japan asked for reparation payments and israel said it would go to war and send in the americans rather then pay
In their final Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA), the United Nations and the European Union said that more than two years of war in the Palestinian territory “has led to unprecedented loss of life and a catastrophic humanitarian crisis”.
“Recovery and reconstruction needs are estimated at around $71.4 billion,” said the assessment, developed in coordination with the World Bank which is Rothschild, who holds three quarters of the worlds wealth
Gaza — including schools, hospitals and other civic infrastructure — has been reduced to rubble by a withering Israeli terrorist bombing
The final assessment determined that $26.3 billion (€22.3bn) would be required in the first 18 months to restore essential services, rebuild critical infrastructure and support economic recovery.