Israel – Lebanon War A Possible Order of Battle for Israeli Forces
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Israel – Lebanon War
A Possible Order of Battle
for
Israeli Forces
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Beruit
Sidon
Tyre
UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) Zone
Golan Heights – Israeli Occupied
Bin Jubeil – Site of Hezbollah encirclement
Haifa
IDF’s Zarit Position
12 Jul – Site of Hezbollah’s cross-border raid with mortar and artillery strikes into Israel resulting in two IDF Soldiers
being kidnapped and three IDF Soldiers being killed. Sheba
Farms also attacked
Sheba Farms
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0900 12 Jul – Hezbollah kidnaps two, kills three IDF
Soldiers
12 Jul – Israeli attempts to recover
Soldiers and five additional IDF
Soldiers are killed when tank hits mine
12 Jul – Israel shoots artillery at towns and IAF drops bridge at Al Qawzah to prevent Hezbollah from moving IDF Soldiers north
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25 Jul - Paratroopers Land & Golani Battalion 51 encircle Bint Jbeil. 13 IDF Soldiers killed as Hezbollah
forces reinforced from the north along a route IDF forces kept open to allow civilians to escape the battle.
Up to 200 Hezbollah fighters killed in this battle
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Latani River
The Western Sector running from the orchards and banana groves south of Tyre which includes the Palestinian Rashidiya refugee camp up to Mansoura, where Hizballah has concentrated a large force, and including Burj a-Shamali and Zabqine, southeast of Tyre. This large enclave of southwestern Lebanon is saturated with Hizballah rockets launchers of different types and fighting strength.
The Central Sector, which would entail the Israeli Bin Jubeil force heading north to take over Tebnine and deepening its thrust into South Lebanon up to 20 km from the Israeli border.
Source: DEBKAfile
The Eastern Sector, where Israeli forces would home in on Khiam on the road between the Israeli border town of Metula to the Lebanese village of Marjayoun which commands the Hatzbani River. From there, they way would be open to the Nabatiya plain and Hizballah’s main South Lebanon command center near the village of Taibe.
Sheba Farms
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26 Jul – IDF overtake Khiam enroute to Hatzbaya to give depth to defense for Israeli units at Sheba Farms which was attacked by Hezbollah on 12 Jul after cross-border raid. Hezbollah fighters caught off-guard during attack on eastern sector.
Sheba Farms
UNDOF
25 Jul – IAF bombs UN Position in Khiam as Hezbollah is using the UN post as cover to fire its rockets