Draft:Battle of Kafr Kila 2024

The Battle of Kfar Kila 2024 took place in the Shiite village of Khula between October 10 and October 13, when the Galilee formation fought and destroyed the Kfar Company, as part of the ground maneuver in southern Lebanon in the Iron Swords War.

Background

On October 7, 2023, a number of terrorist organizations from the Gaza Strip , led by Hamas ' Az ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades , launched a surprise attack on Israel that included acts of mass slaughter and crimes against humanity, in which 1,145 Israelis and foreign citizens were murdered. In response, Israel started a war with iron swords . The very next day, the terrorist organization Hezbollah joined the campaign and began firing at Israel from Lebanon , in order to lure large forces of the IDF to the north, and to put pressure on Israel to end the campaign by displacing tens of thousands of residents of the conflict line from their homes.

For months, Israel concentrated on fighting in Gaza against Hamas, and during September 2024, it shifted most of its efforts to the north. In September 2024, the IDF launched Operation Northern Arrows , which included a series of targeted countermeasures in which most of Hezbollah's senior officials were killed - including the head of the organization, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in Operation New Order , and the commanders of the military branch, Ibrahim Akil and Ali Karachi . Along with the targeted countermeasures, the Israeli Air Force attacked thousands targets and destroyed many terrorist infrastructures of Hezbollah all over Lebanon, including the Da'iyah district in Beirut . The targets that were attacked include hundreds of rocket launchers with thousands of launch canes, underground headquarters and strategic weapons that included long-range missiles , cruise missiles , anti-ship missiles , missiles Ground-air strikes destroyed thousands of rockets and killed hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists. In addition, since the beginning of the war, the IDF has carried out dozens of secret commando raids in villages near the border in order to thwart terrorist infrastructure and prepare the ground for military maneuvers .

On September 30, 2024, the IDF, led by the Northern Command, launched a ground maneuver in Lebanon with the aim of returning the residents to the north safely.

Battle

On October 10, in an air force attack inside the area, the commander of the Khula area , the terrorist Ahmed Mustafa al-Haj Ali, who was responsible for hundreds of steep-track anti-tank launches towards the Kiryat Shmona area, was killed . In addition, the commander of the anti-tank formation in the Mis area was killed Al-Jabal , the terrorist Muhammad Ali Hamadan, who was responsible for many anti-tank missiles targeting the northern settlements.

On October 13, the terrorist Wadah Younes, a resident of the village and part of the company, was taken prisoner after the IDF found him in a tunnel 7 meters deep.