Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah continues to defeat the Zionist invasion in southern Lebanon as losing Israeli forces resort to civilian massacres in violation of the April 7 ceasefire.
Israel invaded Lebanon on March 2 as part of the US-Israel genocidal campaign against Iran and resistance forces in the region. Fighting on the ground has been restricted to the proximity of Israeli outposts in Lebanon as the Israeli Defense Forces fail to make any significant ground.
The April 7 two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US-Israel forbade any further attacks in the region, including Lebanon. Despite this, Israel has continued its massacres in Lebanon. Israel murdered over 250 people and injured hundreds more after carpet bombing civilian areas on April 8, the deadliest day of the war.
The US and Israel have retroactively lied about the conditions of the ceasefire, claiming that Lebanon was not included despite the Pakistani mediators explicitly stating that it was. Hezbollah adhered to the ceasefire until the Israeli attacks resumed.
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said in late March that a security zone up to the Litani River would be created. Israeli forces have been unable to seize control of the river thus far, only reaching the south-east tip, which already connected with a pre-existing Israeli outpost.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir reportedly claimed at a late March security cabinet meeting that the “IDF is going to collapse in on itself” due to a severe manpower shortage as it is stretched thin across its wars of aggression in Iran, Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Lebanon.
Contrary to Zamir’s claims that “Hezbollah is sustaining significant damage,” Hezbollah carried out 1309 operations against the invasion in March—with roughly half the operations taking place in Lebanon and the other half in Israel—and shows no signs of slowing down.
Since the start of the war, Hezbollah reports destroying 136 Israeli Merkava tanks, striking Israeli command centers with drones and rockets, and hitting two Israeli military vessels with explosives. Inside and outside Lebanon, Hezbollah inflicted over 350 casualties on the Zionists throughout March while carrying out an average of 42 operations per day.
The Zionist military reports Hezbollah has fired around 3,000 missiles and other projectiles since the start of the war from an area in southern Lebanon that the sell-out Lebanese government had previously claimed to have disarmed, showing the anti-imperialist force to have a much higher operational activity than expected by the Zionists.
The comprador Lebanese government and the Zionist entity are meeting on April 14 for direct negotiations for the first time since 1983. The Lebanese government is seeking a ceasefire, while Israel is pressing for the disarmament of Hezbollah after being defeated by the resistance force once again.
Image: A damaged Israeli tank after an attack by Hezbollah, March 2026. Credit: Resistance News Network.
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