Published footage from the field shows Israeli Air Force airstrikes laying fire belts on the Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, supporting ground troops engaged in clashes with Hezbollah operatives, according to the source. No further details on casualties or the current state of the fighting have been reported.
Field footage posted late Saturday night shows Israeli Air Force strikes laying down fire belts on the Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, supporting IDF ground troops in active clashes with Hezbollah operatives in the area. The footage, attributed to sources in the field, comes hours after The Zioneer reported Friday night (June 19, 22:58 Jerusalem) that clashes on the ridge were ongoing and that the IDF had made a sixth assault attempt on the strategic high ground — a day after Hezbollah claimed to have destroyed an IDF Merkava tank with an IED during earlier fighting there.
Friday night's thread, published at 22:58 Jerusalem, marked an escalation in reporting on the ridge: an initial Russian source report of Israeli advances was followed within the same hour by Lebanese reports of continued vehicle movement and Hezbollah fire, then by Hezbollah's tank-destruction claim, and finally by the confirmation that clashes remained ongoing and the ridge a focal point. The new video footage, while sourced from the field rather than official channels, visually corroborates the sustained air-ground coordination suggested by the thread's progression from single-source claims to multi-channel reports of ground engagement.
As The Zioneer reported on June 10, 12, 13, and 16, the broader southern Lebanon campaign has featured airstrikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in Tyre, Haboush, and Tull, as well as ground clashes near Majdal Zoun and in Shiite villages — establishing a pattern of daytime and nighttime operations against Hezbollah assets. Hezbollah has separately claimed a surface-to-air missile launch at an Israeli jet (June 7, June 13), though those claims remain unverified.
The footage does not specify whether the Ali Taher operation is ongoing or concluded, and no casualty figures or scope of the fighting have been provided by the IDF or independent sources. The account remains single-source and unverified by the military at this stage; the status of Hezbollah's earlier tank-destruction claim also remains unconfirmed.
6 developments
- StrongNew activity reported at Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon
- StrongLebanese sources: Five killed in Israeli strike on south Lebanon's Ali Taher ridge
- ConfirmedIDF confirms dozens of overnight airstrikes across southern Lebanon, dismisses comment on Ali al-Taher clashes
- StrongHeavy ground fighting erupts in southern Lebanon as IDF column ambushed near Kfar Tebnit
Source and signal
- Internal intake