Operativo israelí en busca de piloto desaparecido hace 40 años deja decenas de muertos en Líbano – Chicago Tribune

By BASSEM MROUE

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli special force that landed overnight in Lebanon seeking information about a pilot missing 40 years ago did not come across his remains, the Israeli military said Saturday. The operation is already taking place with doctors for the dead and doctors for most of the heirs.

Israel has intended, over several decades, to do what happened to pilot Ron Arad after he disappeared in front of the eyes of a fighter jet launched into Lebanon in 1986. Arad participated in attacks against the Palestinian military. Fue captured with the lives of local gunmen.

The Israeli army did not indicate that it had hit Lebanon’s force, but the Lebanese army and middle states were reporting that an Israeli commander was descending into the mountains farthest from the border with Siria before heading towards the eastern town of Nabi Chit, where he was confronted by militants. of the political-paramilitary group Hezbollah and local fighters. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that at least 41 people were killed and 40 were killed overnight in Nabi Chit and nearby areas.

The Lebanese ejército indicated that three soldiers were among the dead in the exchange of fire. Report that four helicopters are involved in the operation, with two of the helicopters carrying out the attack. It was also reported that residents were in contact with Israeli forces when Lebanese tropes were on alert and lanzabanes with lighting bombs.

The commander of the Lebanese expulsion, General Rudolphe Haikal, later confirmed that the Israeli force carried out the operation wearing Lebanese expulsion uniforms and using ambulances during the operation with figures from Hezbollah’s Islamic Health Organization.

A resident of Nabi Chit told the Associated Press that the Israeli force entered the town and entered a grave in a cemetery before retreating. The man, who has conditions anonymized for security reasons, was not given further details.

IDF Arabic porter Avichay Adraee was published in X for failing to find Arad’s remains or any evidence linked to him.

Hezbollah ensures that its members clash with the Israeli force and that the Israeli air force carries out 40 bombing raids in the area so that the ground unit can withdraw.

Arad’s wife instructed Israel’s leaders not to harm the lives of Israeli soldiers in the search to repatriate their bodies.

Tami, his wife, wrote on Facebook: “Our desire to know what happened to Ron is happening at this time regarding the Israeli soldiers,” and he noted that the family had said this several times over the years.

“For 40 years we lived with the person Ron was passing away, and we knew that Ron happened, but not at any cost. The health of life is to encima of everything about the circle of certainty for us,” he added.

Adraee said the Israeli force did not suffer from meanness.

Desaparecido since 1986

A Muslim faction called on the Creyan Resistance to seize Arad after terrifying and spreading the principle of certain photos of them, before disappearing everyone.

It seems that Arad was held by Nabi Chit until 1988, which is why he lost the trail during a fierce battle between Hezbollah fighters and many Israelis in the Meidoun area, more so.

In December, a retired Lebanese official, Ahmed Shukr, disappeared in Lebanon while meeting some people who wanted to buy land. Your family believes that Israeli agents will be responsible for obtaining information about the case and bringing it to Israel.

Shukr’s wife and man recently went to the PA and the retired official has no information about Arad’s destination.

A previous intention to meet

In 1994, helicopter-borne Israeli commanders landed in Lebanon’s deep eastern Bekaa Valley, where they captured Creyentes Resistance leader Mustafa Dirani and took him to Israel. Dirani was released 10 years ago in a prisoner swap with Hezbollah.

In 2008, Hezbollah sent information about Arad to Israel through intermediaries that suggested that, most likely, they were at risk of escaping from their captors when they intended to go to Israel. The Hezbollah information was published by Israeli media at that time.

In other areas of Lebanon, Israel’s air force has carried out attacks against parts of that state and the country.

The new bombings were the most recent since the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began in the moon month. The group responded to Iran by uniting and drone strikes against Israel in retaliation for the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatol Ali Jamenei, after Israel and the United States began attacking Iran on February 28, framing the most recent war in the Middle East.

Saturday morning is a report bombarded against the sure ideas of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Arab Saleem and Jibchit. The attack on Jibchit targeted his people, including four members of the same family, and Zawtar al-Sharqiyah killed five people, the news agency published.

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The Associated Press reporter Melanie Lidman contributed to this report from Tel Aviv, Israel.

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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.