{"id":297182,"date":"2024-10-23T07:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=297182"},"modified":"2024-10-25T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:19:23","slug":"hezbollah-hits-six-israeli-merkava-tanks-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=297182","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah hits six Israeli Merkava tanks in southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Scroll down for video&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Oct 23, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Lebanon\u2019s resistance movement Hezbollah continues to repel Israeli aggression on Lebanese soil while hitting the regime\u2019s targets deep inside the occupied territories.<\/strong><\/p>\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 fighters 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 \u201cfighters 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.<\/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 fighters of 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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/10\/23\/735792\/Hezbollah-hits-six-Israeli-Merkava-tanks-in-south-Lebanon\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hezbollah Bleeds Israeli Military With 30 Strikes; 6 Merkava Tanks Destroyed, Hermes Drone Downed<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hindustan Times \u2013 Oct 23, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pLrxXVJWnBY?si=xBKKWCIVmq-nbpsU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pLrxXVJWnBY\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the Western mainstream news is barely reporting on Israel&#8217;s incursion into southern Lebanon should tell us that Hezbollah is making it pay a heavy price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":296003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,58,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297195,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297182\/revisions\/297195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}