Beirut While inhabitants in northern Israeli are still on the run after losing rely on the Netanyahu cabinet, the people of Odaisseh liberated the Lebanese town on Tuesday early morning, February 18, 2025, after a forced absence of more than a year.The Israeli army radio had formerly mentioned: Odaisseh will stay securely rooted in the Israeli collective memory as the town that saw among the most tough fights in the war, where 6 Egoz unit fighters fell in an ambush set by Hezbollah.MaskafAms inhabitants were astonished at the speed with which Odaissehs villagers began to rebuild their village.Israel Today said: The locals of the north are worried: How will we return when there is no facilities, and numerous homes in numerous settlements have not yet been refurbished, and the education systems are not all set? Will we go back to seeing convoys of Hezbollah flags in the villages near the fence?Yedioth Ahronoth in turn wrote: A long convoy of automobiles lined up at the entryway to the town of Odaisseh.
Engineering equipment was busy removing the debris and working to bring back the villages infrastructure.I swore to compromise my kid as a martyr just like Sayyedah Zahraa.
Thanks to his blood and sacrifices, we have actually emerged victorious.
If I had more children, I would have compromised them all.
Nobody will take away the resistances weapon, said one of the mothers of the heroes of the Odaisseh Ambush, Sayyed Mahdi al-Moussawi, a missed out on martyr (Shaheed Gomnm).
On the other side of the border, Libi Fox, a member of Kibbutz Maskaf Am, said: I do not see here the image of success for Israel.
Ofer Moskowitz, another member also commented: This takes me back to 2006, when we left Lebanon after the war in exactly the very same method, it added.Odaisseh is the closest Lebanese point to Palestine.
It was the very first town inhabited by the Israeli enemy in 1977, and the last village to be expelled from it in May 2000.
To the north, it is surrounded by Kfar Kila; to the south, Markaba and Hounin (among the seven occupied Lebanese villages).
In 1920, according to the San Remo Agreement and the Paulet-Newcombe Agreement, 7 Lebanese border villages were annexed to Palestine: Hounin, on whose ruins the settlement of Margaliot was established; Salha, on whose ruins the settlements of Yiron and Avivim were developed; Al-Malikiyah, on whose ruins the settlement of Malikah was developed; Ibl al-Qamh, on whose ruins the settlement of Yoshav Yuval was developed; Al-Nabiyusha, on whose ruins the settlement of Ramot Naftali was established; Qadas, on whose ruins the settlement of Yiftach was developed; Tarbikha and the settlement of Shumra was constructed on its ruins.Before Hezbollahs Odaisseh Ambush Operation, the Washington Post revealed an Israeli army official saying: Our forces performed 70 secret operations in Lebanon over the past year.
Hezbollahs heroes embarrassed the elite forces.According to Hezbollahs military media, in the early hours of October 1, 2024, the Mujahideen kept an eye on reconnaissance motions of the Israeli enemy army in Odaisseh.
They had the ability to establish an innovative ambush.
On the next day, more than 30 officers & & soldiers quietly infiltrated the ambush area.
With the call of Labbaik Ya Nasrallah, the Mujahideen showered them with a hail of bullets from their light weapons, gatling gun, and rocket-propelled grenades at zero distance, which led to many dead and wounded who were screaming and wailing.It continued: At the same time, the resistances close support groups targeted the opponents supply lines in Misgav Am, Kfar Giladi, and Matla with mortar shells and missiles, noting that the Israeli helicopters right away intervened to leave the dead and wounded.Despite the Israeli attempt to cover a large number of losses, Israeli Ziv Hospital confirmed that it got 39 injured, including 3 in important condition.
Yedioth Ahronoth described what happened as a catastrophe.The timing of the operation is extremely significant, considered that it happened a few days after the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
It exposed the failure of the Israeli evaluation and its failure to penetrate the ground in spite of its extensive bombardment of the area considering that October 2023, while Western envoys were threatening Hezbollah.Channel 13 reported that Odaisseh Ambush Operation revealed that Hezbollahs defensive developments run and battle like an army.Indeed, this validates the excellent impact of the Galilee in northern occupied Palestine tactically, politically, financially and socially in the long term on the cumulative awareness of the colonial entity.Galilee is an integrated quasi-state that extends from the Golan Heights and Upper Galilee in the north to the Beisan Valley and Ramot Menashe in the south on a location of 3,324 square kilometres (without the Golan).
It is considered an economic, security and military tributary to the short-term entity.
Its topographical nature likewise guarantees the geographical growth of Greater Israel in addition to its military significance as it consists of strategic heights.By the end of the 19th century, Galilee was he center of kibbutzim occupied by veteran Jews who were brought from Syria and Lebanon as it is a fertile farming land including underground water tanks that made it a significant base for food security in the short-lived entity.The 417 settlements in the north consist of 34.6% of all settlements.
Before October 2023, they were lived in by about 1.52 million individuals.
Those settlers complained about the absence of an organized evacuation strategy that had shaken the Zionist communities.In light of the inability to adapt to society, given that most of families are of a rural agricultural nature.
They currently experience high rates of mental illness, sexual assault, domestic violence, moral decadence, and the dissolution of household ties.
They feel that they are merely cannon fodder for Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beersheba, and Eilat.It is believed that any damage that impacts the northern kibbutzim is harm to the structures of the Hebrew colonial state.
Their factories were closed.
Plains and farms were deserted.
Business activity decreased by 75% and several investment companies moved outside inhabited Palestine.Armored workers providers caused damage to roadways, water and sewage pipes, gas, and orchards.
Numerous homes, shops, educational institutions, and recreational facilities were seriously damaged.The Bank of Israel had actually estimated that the lack of 57,600 settlers in the north from work costs the Israeli economy weekly about $63.2 million.Annually, the Galilee is visited by about 1.5 million travelers; its only ski resort yearly gets about 400,000 visitors.
Its closure caused a huge financial loss and the dismissal of about 400 employees.These damages raise the possibility that the northern colonial settlers will not return with the very same momentum as the Lebanese on the other side of the border.