Published On 10/6/2026
Hezbollah broadcast images of the targeting of Israeli Merkava tank members with an Ababil assault drone at the Balata “Al-Mustaddid” site in southern Lebanon on June 6.
The pictures showed the drone flying at different heights and rotating, exploring the target location, to determine its target, which was a Merkava tank that was covered with a net to protect it from being targeted by drones, but the drone attacked it from the exposed side and destroyed it.
In recent days, Hezbollah has moved to a new and completely different style of fighting after the Israeli incursion into the front towns. The party has abandoned the method of “traditional frontal fighting” and the fixed defensive lines that are exhausted by the intensity of fire and the air cover of the Israeli army.
The assault marches put pressure on Israeli soldiers and turned into a crisis that preoccupies Israel without the possibility of finding radical solutions yet, and forced the Israeli army to allocate additional resources for protection and surveillance, as military experts confirm.
For its part, the Israeli army’s aggression against Lebanon left more than 3,000 people dead and 10,000 wounded, including hundreds of children and women. It also defined a buffer zone extending over about 600 square kilometers and issued warnings to evacuate hundreds of towns and villages of up to 2,000 square kilometers, or nearly one-fifth of Lebanon’s area, which led to the forced displacement of a large number of people from Hezbollah’s nurturing environment, estimated at about 1.2 million.
