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Battle of Bint Jbeil
Part of the 2006 Lebanon War
central
Map of South Lebanon showing the location of Bint Jbeil
Date23 July – 11 August 2006
(2 weeks and 5 days)
Location
Result A late victory for the IDF
Belligerents
 Israel Hezbollah
Commanders and leaders
Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch
Maj. Roi Klein 
Com. Khalid Bazzi  
Com. Muhammad Qanso 
Units involved

35th Paratroopers Brigade

  • 101st battalion
  • 890th battalion
  • Recon company

Golani Brigade


  • 51st battalion


Units from air force and artillery[1]

Armed wing

  • Local garrison
  • Nasr Unit, Hezbollah Special Forces unit
Strength
3,000 soldiers 100–150 fighters in the region, incl. 40 Special Forces (IDF estimate)[2][3]
Casualties and losses
8 IDF soldiers killed 32 killed (Hezbollah claim)[4]
50–80 soldiers (IDF claim)[5]
"A very large number" (Winograd Report)[6]
"Dozens" (Reuven Erlich)[7]
76 Lebanese civilians killed in Aynata,[8] Bint Jbeil,[4] and Aytaroun.[9]

The course of the battle - Golani Brigade

In the darkness of the morning reserve of Wednesday 1st of the 1st of July 2006 July 26 2006, Battalion 51 began to move towards the center of the town of Bint Jbeil. Company A with the battalion commander, Lt. Col. Yaniv Asur, moved first and settled in its new position.  Company C with the deputy commander of the battalion Roi Klein was the last to move and reached its destination near first light.  The special unit moved first with the SMG, Major Roy Klein, and the deputy company commander, Alex Schwartzman, and they headed for the first building, the attempts to break into the house were unsuccessful.  At 5:00 a.m. when the special unit was waiting in the yard for the house to be broken into, the special machine gun spotted a Hezbollah fighter behind him from the east (the direction they came from) beyond the wall, he fired a bunch of bullets at him and so began a battle that lasted for 11 consecutive hours[10]


During the battle it became clear that dozens of Hezbollah fighters were located in the nearby buildings to the east that they passed on their way to their new destination, and more than ten Hezbollah fighters even reached the wall of the olive grove that surrounded the courtyard of the building they intended to break into and spread out along it, but during the first hour of the battle Golani fighters did not know this and thought they encountered  in only a limited squad of the enemy.  Golani Brigade fighters opened fire and threw grenades back over the wall, but the high wall made it difficult for the fighters to return fire with their personal weapons.  Maj. Gen. Klein gave the order to attack in the right flank. Lieutenant Amichai Merhavia led his platoon to the flank through the upper olive grove and was stopped by another stone wall that surrounded the upper olive grove and behind it the Hezbollah fighters had already managed to deploy, who controlled the fire on the upper grove. Platoon commander Amichai Merhavia and Sgt.  The Shimon Dahan platoon was hit by a lethal squad that was positioned to their right behind the wall. The force continued shooting and throwing grenades from beyond the wall and called for help. Sgt.  A stretcher that was passed to him.


On the other hand, there was an exchange of fire between the forces and Assaf Nemer, one of the soldiers of the platoon, was hit in the head and killed.  Another grenade that was thrown fell near Klein.  Klein recognized the grenade thrown at the force and jumped on it to save his soldiers who were nearby.  Klein was mortally wounded, shouted "Shema Israel" and reported himself on the line "Klein is dead. Klein is dead" to announce that the avenue of command had been hit.  After SMP Schwartzman broke through the door of the building with an explosive brick, he also jumped with his associate Idan Cohen to the Upper Plantation to help, but they too were seriously injured in their legs by a bundle fired at them from the lethal squad that was positioned to the right of the plantation. The elimination of the lethal squad on the right (probably by SMP Schwartzman  and Klausner fan) at 5:30 (about 30 minutes after the start of the fight) was the first turning point in the fight.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rap15 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ehrich, p. 77 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Harel, p. 139
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference SafirBint was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "The Second Lebanon War: A Timeline IDF Blog | the Official Blog of the Israel Defense Forces". Archived from the original on 8 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  6. ^ The Final Winograd Commission Report, p. 364
  7. ^ Erlich, Part Two: Documentation, p.23
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference SafirAyn was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ zeina karam (23 October 2006). "Violence Casts Shadow on Muslim Holiday". The Washington Post. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  10. ^ https://www.idf.il/141793/