Battle of Ayta ash-Sha'b | |||||||
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Part of 2006 Lebanon War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Brig.-Gen. Udi Adam, head of Northern Command Brig.-Gen. Gal Hirsch, commander of the 91st Div. Col. Ilan Atias, commander of 2nd Brigade Col. Hagai Mordechai, commander of 35th Brigade | Unknown | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
84th Nahal Brigade
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60–70 fighters (Israeli estimate)[2] 100 fighters (Lebanese estimate)[3] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
28 killed (IDF claim) |
11 fighters killed (Lebanese, Israeli and International media estimates) [5][6][7][3][8][9]40 killed (IDF claim)[10] 2 captured[11] | ||||||
8 Lebanese civilians killed (Lebanese sources) |
The Battle of Ayta ash-Sha'b took place during the 2006 Lebanon War, when the Israel Defense Forces and the Islamic Resistance, the armed wing of Hezbollah, fought a 33 days battle for the town of Ayta ash-Sha'b and the neighboring villages of Ramiya, al-Qawzah and Dibil in southern Lebanon. The initial phase of the battle consisted of two and a half weeks of intense bombardment by air and artillery, followed by more than two weeks of intensive fighting in and around the town. The IDF deployed five brigades against an Hizbullah force consisting of litte more than half a company. Still the IDF failed to capture the town and suffered relatively heavy casualties in the process.[1]
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