Israel. Media: female soldiers are taking part in combat operations in Lebanon for the first time in history

A few weeks ago to the south Lebanon a women's military intelligence unit was deployed. Its task is to collect intelligence information, identify terrorists, create a list of targets and direct the fire of land and air units at them.

This is the first time in history that Israeli female soldiers take part in combat operations in Lebanon, writes the Jerusalem Post daily.

Almost two months ago Israel launched massive airstrikes on Lebanon, and later a land operation in the south of that country, declaring that its goal was to eliminate the threat from the Iran terrorist Hezbollah.

After the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip in the fall of 2023, Hezbollah, which controls the south of Lebanon, began regularly shelling the north of Israel. The attacks were met with strong responses.

The Israeli armed forces reported that they had killed over 2,000. Hezbollah fighters and destroyed a significant part of the military potential of the Shiite organization.

According to the Ministry of Health in Beirut, more than 3,300 people have died in over a year of Israeli attacks on Lebanon. people, most of them during the offensive that has been ongoing since the end of September. The media and local authorities report that some of the victims are civilians.

As a result of the Israeli campaign, approximately 1.2 million inhabitants of Lebanon fled their homes, 200-300 thousand of them left the country, the rest became internal refugees. Over a year of shelling on the Israeli side, approximately 100 people were killed, and the threat forced the evacuation of approximately 60,000 people. inhabitants of the north of the country.