Back at Golders Green,
Nearly six in ten Americans say President Donald Trump’s war in Iran has gone too far, according to a poll out Wednesday from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Hezbollah,
Following is the list of operations carried out on Thursday, March 26, 2026:
Merkava hits, direct confrontations
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At 1:30 am, Hezbollah’s fighters engaged an Israeli force in close-quarters combat, near Deir Seryan’s school and hospital.
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At 1:50 am, the Resistance hit an Israeli Merkava tank, positioned near Deir Seryan’s farm pond, using a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG).
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At 2:20 am, Hezbollah fighters ambushed an advancing Israeli force near the same pond, engaging the force in close-quarter combat and targeting another Merkava tank with an RPG.
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At 2:30 am, on the road linking al-Taybeh to al-Qantara, a Merkava tank was hit by an ATGM.
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At 3:00 am, Hezbollah fighters ambushed an advancing Israeli force near al-Qantara’s Mosque.
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At 3:15 am, another Merkava tank was hit in al-Qantara via an ATGM.
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At 3:40 am, the Resistance hit another Merkava tank near the technical school in the same town. A military helicopter attempted to evacuate casualties from the town; however, Hezbollah fighters fired a Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPAD) at it, forcing it to retreat.
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At 5:00 am, a Merkava tank was hit in the town of Debl by an ATGM.
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At 5:06 am, the Resistance hit a Merkava tank in al-Qantara with an ATGM, this time positioned near the town’s technical school.
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At 5:15 am, a Merkava tank was near the technical school, raising the total number of tanks hit in al-Qantara to five.
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Concurrently, three Merkava tanks were hit in the town of Deir Seryan with ATGMs. At the time of the statement’s release, Hezbollah said that five tanks were hit in total in Deir Seryan alone.
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At 5:30 am, a Merkava tank was hit in Dibl with an ATGM.
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At 6:00 am, three Merkava tanks were hit on the al-Muhaysbat hilltop in al-Taybeh, via ATGMs.
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At 6:30 am, a Merkava tank was hit near the technical school in al-Qantara, raising the number of confirmed hits to six.
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At 6:40 am, Hezbollah fighters hit the seventh Merkava tank with an ATGM in al-Qantara, this time positioned near the town’s water tower.
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At the same time, the Resistance targeted an assembly point of Israeli troops and armored vehicles in al-Qawzah with a salvo of rockets.
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At 7:05 am, the Resistance hit the eighth Merkava tank in al-Qantara, near the water tower, with an ATGM.
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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-targets-hakirya--atgms-haunt-israeli-merkavas-high
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https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2036952072134730011?s=46
Hezbollah lured an entire Israeli armored company into a textbook ambush last night on the Taybeh–Qantara axis
Tuesday, Israel’s 7th Brigade sent a remote-controlled bulldozer to probe Hezbollah’s defensive lines between Muhaysibat and Qantara.
The fighters spotted it and let it pass. They wanted the real prize.
Wednesday at 6:50 PM, it came. A full armored column of Merkava tanks and D9 bulldozers, rolling single-file toward Qantara.
Hezbollah waited. Every vehicle entered the kill zone. Then the order came, and with the battle cry “Ya Rasul Allah,” the fighters launched.
Guided missiles slammed into the middle of the column. Four Merkavas and a D9, all destroyed. The column was now cut in half.
The rear platoon popped smoke to hide. It didn’t matter. Missiles found them too. All four tanks burned.
The lead platoon tried to push through into Qantara anyway. More missiles. Another D9 and two more Merkavas gone.
The surviving soldiers abandoned their vehicles and tried to evacuate their casualties, fleeing on foot back toward Muhaysibat while Hezbollah artillery pounded their command posts and reinforcements.
Final toll: ten tanks, two bulldozers. An entire company’s worth of armor wiped out in a single engagement.
And this was the second time in three days. Two days earlier, Hezbollah destroyed eight Merkavas in a similar ambush on the Taybeh to Deir Siryan road.
