{"id":15683,"date":"2019-01-03T04:23:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15683"},"modified":"2019-01-03T04:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T04:23:36","slug":"israel-forms-new-battalion-to-be-in-first-line-against-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/israel-forms-new-battalion-to-be-in-first-line-against-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIsrael\u201d Forms New Battalion to Be \u2018In First Line\u2019 against Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Zionist occupation military\u2019s fear from Hezbollah increasing might grows, it formed a new reserves battalion to act as the first line against Hezbollah by protecting the communities along the northern occupied border with Lebanon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dubbed \u201cGates of Fire,\u201d or Shaare Ha\u2019esh, the \u201cIsraeli\u201d force was created as part of the Zionist military\u2019s efforts to confront the powerful Hezbollah. Last month, the occupation army also launched an engineering operation, so-called \u201cNorthern Shield,\u201d to find and destroy alleged Hezbollah cross-border tunnels.<\/p>\n

The new battalion is aimed at \u201ccountering Hezbollah\u2019s plans\u201d to conquer parts of the occupied Galilee panhandle and the communities inside it in the future. It will serve under the brigade that guards the region, the Baram Brigade.<\/p>\n

The unit is made up of reservists freshly released from the Golani Infantry Brigade\u2019s Reconnaissance Battalion.<\/p>\n

Col. Roi Levi, commander of the Baram Brigade, told soldiers during the formation ceremony for the unit, that the Gates of Fire Battalion serves a dual purpose: It is first tasked with \u2018protecting the communities and military posts closest to the border. Once those sites are secured, the unit is then meant to go on the offensive and attack Hezbollah inside Lebanon.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Zionist army believes Hezbollah will seek to conquer swaths of northern occupied Palestine as the opening maneuver of a future war.<\/p>\n

The foundation of the battalion was mocked in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank God that we live in a time when our enemy is forming defensive battalions because of the force of our resistance, after we were in a time when the enemy was able to conquer our capital with just a marching band,\u201d Ali Shoeib, a journalist for a Al-Manar TV, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n

The newly formed battalion has already held its first exercise. Lasting about five days, the drill focused on \u201cconquering Hezbollah positions, night-time fighting and urban combat,\u201d the Zionist army claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Zionist occupation military\u2019s fear from Hezbollah increasing might grows, it formed a new reserves battalion to act as the first line against Hezbollah by protecting the communities along the northern occupied border with Lebanon. Dubbed \u201cGates of Fire,\u201d or Shaare Ha\u2019esh, the \u201cIsraeli\u201d force was created as part of the Zionist military\u2019s efforts …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-lectures","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15685,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions\/15685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}