Hezbollah's military media released statements early Monday detailing artillery and rocket attacks that reportedly forced advancing Israeli troops to retreat from the Lebanese border towns of Aitaroun and Adaisseh.
Early Monday morning, March 9, 2026, fighters of the Islamic Resistance reported repelling multiple Israeli forces attempting to advance into southern Lebanon. According to the War Media of the Islamic Resistance, the official communication wing of Hezbollah, these military responses were launched in direct retaliation for the criminal Israeli aggression that has targeted dozens of Lebanese cities, towns, and the southern suburbs of Beirut.
In its fifth statement of the day, which was also circulated by the pro-resistance channel Free People News Network, the group announced that it had monitored a force belonging to the Israeli enemy army advancing toward the border town of Aitaroun. At 00:30, resistance fighters targeted the advancing unit for the second time using artillery shells.
Less than two hours later, the War Media detailed a closer confrontation in a sixth statement. At 02:15, an infiltrating Israeli force moving toward the border town of Adaisseh was initially targeted with rocket salvos. The fighters subsequently engaged the troops directly with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. According to the channel, the heavy resistance fire successfully forced the Israeli force to retreat to Khallet al-Mahafer.
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