TEHRAN - Israeli infantry has made renewed attempts to invade southern Lebanon through various points in southern Lebanon since the early hours of Wednesday morning but failed to advance. 

The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) retreated following confrontations with Hezbollah and under heavy fire and artillery by the Lebanese resistance. 

The IOF attempted to advance via the Lebanese border villages of Meiss El Jabal, Mouhaybib, Blida, Labbouneh, and Maroun al-Ras. 

In multiple statements, Hezbollah said its fighters attacked enemy forces with rocket-propelled weapons, artillery shells, and rockets.

The fighters also detonated an explosive device targeting a group of Israeli soldiers and attacked them in Blida, inflicting “precise injuries”.

An Israeli infantry force that tried to advance towards Labouna for a second time on Wednesday was targeted with “guided missiles causing additional fatalities and injuries”. 

The Lebanese resistance said on Wednesday it is targeting Israeli military sites and gatherings of Israeli infantry along the front line in northern Israel.  

By Wednesday afternoon, Hezbollah said it targeted an Israeli force gathering in the settlement of Kiryat Shmona with a volley of rockets.

Israeli media reported that rocket fire from Lebanon left a number of Israelis dead in Kiryat Shmona. It is not clear if the incident was the same operation that was announced by Hezbollah. 

Hezbollah said its fighters targeted another gathering of Israeli forces in the Kfar Giladi settlement with a volley of rockets and then targeted the same settlement again later in the afternoon with a larger volley.

Israeli forces were also targeted in the “Manara settlement with a volley of rockets”.

Israelis in Haifa may be displaced like other regions in the north
On Tuesday night, news circulated that the IOF planted an Israeli flag in the Lebanese border village of Maroun al-Ras before removing the flat and retreating from the village under fire. 
The incident has reportedly been filmed by a member of UNIFIL. 

Hezbollah’s Operations Room noted that its fighters are engaged in a “heroic battle that this enemy has not experienced in its previous wars,” which has prompted it to “hide behind UNIFIL forces’ positions and in paths invisible to the Lebanese side.”

The Operations Room emphasized that the IOF “has not succeeded in entering our steadfast villages thus far and is suffering heavy losses, revealing that these losses exceed 35 dead and 200 injured among elite officers and soldiers.”

Meanwhile, Hezbollah continued to fire a series of rocket barrages on Wednesday targeting Haifa and expanding to other regions of northern Israel. 

Experts say despite the assassination of its Secretary-General General, political leaders, and commanders, Hezbollah is executing quite a remarkable military strategy. 

Amid the tenth day of Israeli ground infiltration failures and a rise in the intensity and range of Hezbollah’s missiles, it appears that the movement’s command and control centers are intact. 

There is growing concern among former Israeli politicians and generals that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is blindly walking into a trap.

No Israelis have returned to the areas in the north that they left many months ago. Hezbollah has shown it is outmaneuvering the IOF on the ground, and the movement has hinted that its mission has switched toward displacing Israelis in Haifa.