{"id":12083,"date":"2023-10-31T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12083"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:43:27","slug":"lebanons-hezbollah-works-to-curb-hefty-losses-in-israel-clashes-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12083","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah works to curb hefty losses in Israel clashes, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Iran-backed group has lost 47 fighters to Israeli strikes at Lebanon&#8217;s frontier since its Palestinian ally Hamas and Israel went to war on Oct. 7 &#8211; about a fifth of the number killed in a full-scale war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With most of its fighters killed in Israeli drone strikes, Hezbollah has unveiled its surface-to-air missile capability for the first time, declaring on Sunday it downed an Israeli drone. The missiles are part of an increasingly potent arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Israeli military has not commented on Sunday&#8217;s reported drone incident. But Israel said on Saturday it had stopped a surface-to-air missile fired from Lebanon at one of its drones and that it responded by striking the launch site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the sources familiar with Hezbollah&#8217;s thinking told Reuters that the use of anti-aircraft missiles was one of several steps taken by the Shi&#8217;ite Muslim group to curb its losses and counter Israeli drones, which have picked off its fighters in the rocky terrain and olive groves along the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah had made &#8220;arrangements to reduce the number of martyrs&#8221;, the source said, without offering further details.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/exclusive-lebanons-hezbollah-works-curb-172852985.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/exclusive-lebanons-hezbollah-works-curb-172852985.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Iran-backed group has lost 47 fighters to Israeli strikes at Lebanon&#8217;s frontier since its Palestinian ally Hamas and Israel went to war on Oct. 7 &#8211; about a fifth of the number killed in a full-scale war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.<br \/>\nWith most of its fighters killed in Israeli drone strikes, Hezbollah has unveiled its surface-to-air missile capability for the first time, declaring on Sunday it downed an Israeli drone. The missiles are part of an increasingly potent arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military has not commented on Sunday&#8217;s reported drone incident. But Israel said on Saturday it had stopped a surface-to-air missile fired from Lebanon at one of its drones and that it responded by striking the launch site.<\/p>\n<p>One of the sources familiar with Hezbollah&#8217;s thinking told Reuters that the use of anti-aircraft missiles was one of several steps taken by the Shi&#8217;ite Muslim group to curb its losses and counter Israeli drones, which have picked off its fighters in the rocky terrain and olive groves along the border.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah had made &#8220;arrangements to reduce the number of martyrs&#8221;, the source said, without offering further details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/exclusive-lebanons-hezbollah-works-curb-172852985.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,1965,194,360,391,158],"class_list":["post-12083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12084,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083\/revisions\/12084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}