Hezbollah Broadcasts Footage Of Cross-Border Attack That Triggered Second Lebanon War

Hezbollah, Iran's Shi'ite proxy in Lebanon, released previously unseen footage of the cross-border attack that resulted in the kidnap of two Israeli soldiers, Sgts. Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, and which ultimately sparked the Second Lebanon War in July 2006.

Released to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the war's outbreak, the video shows the tactics the Hezbollah operatives employed; crossing into Israel from Lebanon, approaching and firing at an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Humvee patrol vehicle. The Lebanese terrorists rush the vehicle, pull the bodies of the soldiers out and then returning back over the border.

Three other soldiers were killed in the attack and five more IDF troops were killed shortly thereafter in a failed Israeli rescue attempt, reported The Times of Israel.

Much of the footage had actually been previously released in 2018 on a Hezbollah-affiliated Twitter account - although the events leading up to the attack and immediately after the kidnapping do appear to be new.

The timing of the footage's release while obviously meant to coincide with the anniversary of the outbreak of the war is also somewhat serendipitous in view of the dire economic, financial and political straits that Lebanon finds itself in.

The war lasted 34 days and is the last time that Israel and Hezbollah have fought an all-out war. There are, however, serious warnings that it will very likely not be the last as the Iranian proxy has built up an arsenal of some 150,000 missiles and rockets, many of which are precision-guided.