Israeli troops are 'killed in ambush' inside Lebanon after 'direct clash near Hezbollah terror tunnel' as IDF releases video of commandos advancing during invasion

The IDF has sustained its first losses since launching a crushed incursion into confederate Lebanon aft a commando portion was caught successful a Hezbollah ambush precocious this morning.

Israeli officials this day confirmed astatine slightest 1 typical forces worker was killed successful a firefight pinch Hezbollah militants who sprang a astonishment battle connected nan IDF portion arsenic it approached a passageway entranceway adjacent nan colony of Adaisseh.

At slightest 1 worker was officially confirmed dead, but sources told The Times their portion sustained respective casualties pinch arsenic galore arsenic 4 group thought to person been killed. 

The fallen worker was named arsenic Captain Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, a personnel of nan Egoz commando unit. 

News of nan losses came arsenic Israel's subject released video footage showing its typical forces carrying retired nan penetration for nan first time.

Heavily equipped soldiers were seen stalking crossed nan separator nether screen of acheronian earlier later advancing into a Lebanese colony - an municipality combat situation that would undoubtedly supply ample opportunity for Hezbollah to employment devastating guerrilla tactics. 

Earlier today, Hezbollah's media serviceman Mohammad Afif claimed his fighters inflicted losses connected Israeli units successful nan villages of Adaisseh and Maroun al-Ras, and said much than 100 rockets were launched astatine unit gatherings crossed nan border.   

He besides sought to dispel speculation that nan Lebanese militant outfit had been weakened by ongoing Israeli attacks, which past week killed leader Hassan Nasrallah and a slew of different elder commanders.

'Our forces and guidance are afloat prepared to face and defy nan enemy. I show everyone that nan guidance is good and nan bid and power strategy is fine,' Afif declared. 

'What happened coming successful Misgav Am, Maroun al-Ras and Adaisseh coming is only nan beginning,' Afif said.

Meanwhile, Israel's subject is preparing a consequence to yesterday's shocking onslaught by Iran that saw astir 200 ballistic missiles streak crossed nan Middle East and rainfall down connected Israel past night.

The IDF coming pressed connected pinch its sadistic bombardment of Hezbollah positions crossed Lebanon, pinch astatine slightest 5 powerful explosions rocking confederate Beirut this morning.

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians are fleeing northbound while Britons and different overseas nationals are rushing to flight nan country aft nan IDF warned those surviving successful nan southbound to evacuate their homes.

The region is edging person to an all-out warfare that is already drafting successful friends connected some sides - pinch British jets utilized to antagonistic Iran's strikes yesterday.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) reported nan attack, which they said included hypersonic missiles, was successful consequence to nan sidesplitting of Hezbollah's Nasrallah, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Iranian commandant Abbas Nilforoushan of nan Quds Force.

'Iran made a large correction coming and will salary for it,' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. 'Whoever attacks us, we onslaught them.'

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who was astatine nan bid and power centre monitoring nan interception of Iranian missiles, besides vowed vengeance, adding: 'Iran has not learned a elemental instruction - those who onslaught nan authorities of Israel, salary a dense price.'

Reports suggest Israel could spell aft nan Islamic Republic's lipid accommodation successful retaliation for nan rocket bombardment past night.

Iran is nan 3rd biggest shaper of crude lipid successful nan OPEC group of oil-producing countries and is heavy reliant connected its lipid and state exports to prop up its ailing system amid years of sanctions.

Meanwhile, erstwhile Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett this greeting called for a decisive onslaught to destruct Iran's atomic facilities.

'We must enactment now to destruct Iran's atomic program, its cardinal power facilities, and to fatally cripple this violent regime,' Bennett wrote connected X conscionable hours aft nan onslaught connected Israel connected Tuesday.

'We person nan justification. We person nan tools. Now that Hezbollah and Hamas are paralysed, Iran stands exposed.'

Retired US Army Colonel Jonathan Sweet and information master Mark Toth told MailOnline that Israel could surely cripple Iran's burgeoning atomic programme, fixed its immense technological advantages and US-supplied weaponry.

'(An Israeli attack) could return nan shape of nan IDF striking Iran's atomic sites successful an effort to termination 2 birds pinch 1 stone: deterrence and markedly mounting backmost Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's atomic weapons programme.

'Israel could deploy 1 aliases each of its long-range assets to onslaught those targets - F-35 stealth fighter-bombers, precision deep-strike ballistic missiles, and/or ICBM-equipped submarines.'

Matthew Savill, Director of Military Sciences astatine nan RUSI deliberation tank, added: 'Israel can't beryllium successful nan position of tolerating nonstop attacks from ballistic missiles connected its territory, particularly if those attacks summation successful standard and statesman to put unit connected nan rocket defence system. 

'At nan little extremity of nan spectrum for a subject consequence would beryllium a reminder of its accepted superiority, striking Iranian subject targets which emphasise and widen that gap, specified arsenic rocket defence and radar sites wrong Iran. Ballistic rocket production, retention aliases cognition sites would service nan dual intent of widening nan spread and removing threats to Israel.

'Moving up nan scale, ports aliases Iranian infrastructure, including lipid accumulation facilities, could beryllium attacked to emphasise nan harm that Israel tin do to Iran. At nan apical extremity would beryllium elder Iranian officials and nan Iranian atomic programme.'

Iran claimed yesterday's onslaught was successful self-defence successful statement pinch Article 51 of nan UN charter and urged nan United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to intervene to forestall Israel and nan US from continuing its subject operations successful nan region.

Israel meanwhile declared UN main Antonio Guterres 'persona non grata', banning him from entering nan state for failing to condemn nan Iranian attack

'Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran's heinous onslaught connected Israel does not merit to measurement ft connected Israeli soil. 

'This is an anti-Israel Secretary-General who lends support to terrorists, rapists, and murderers,' said Foreign Minister Israel Katz successful a statement.

In a connection this morning, nan IDF said 'additional forces' are joining 'the limited, localised, targeted raids connected Hezbollah targets' successful confederate Lebanon.

It added that they would beryllium drawn from a scope of forces including nan 36th Division, who were withdrawn from Gaza earlier this year, and would beryllium joining nan 98th section which is already successful Lebanon.

As it steps up its campaign, Israel has warned group successful confederate Lebanon to time off their homes successful confederate Lebanon and evacuate to nan northbound of nan Awali River, immoderate 36 miles from nan border.

It is overmuch further than nan Litani River, which marks nan bluish separator of a UN-declared area intended to service arsenic a buffer betwixt Israel and Hezbollah aft their 2006 war.

The separator region has mostly emptied retired of nan hundreds of thousands of group who unrecorded connected some sides amid sustained cross-border occurrence complete nan past year.

Israeli strikes person killed complete 1,000 group successful Lebanon complete nan past 2 weeks, astir a 4th of them women and children, according to nan Health Ministry. Hundreds of thousands person fled their homes.

The IDF has said it will proceed to onslaught Hezbollah until it is safe for tens of thousands of its citizens displaced from homes adjacent nan Lebanon separator to return, but Hezbollah has vowed to support firing rockets into Israel until location is simply a cease-fire successful Gaza pinch Hamas. 

Late into nan night, residents successful Beirut were told to evacuate by nan IDF, which said that their homes were wrong 500 metres of Hezbollah accommodation that would beryllium struck imminently.

Lebanese politician Michel Helou told nan BBC that nan business is 'tense' successful nan country's capital.

'Last nighttime nary of america slept overmuch because it was nan 5th nighttime successful a statement that nan confederate suburb is struck.

'Every hr nan Israeli service sends a Twitter station informing group to evacuate, but really and wherever and really could it beryllium imaginable for them to evacuate successful half an hr earlier a onslaught hits.

'It's very traumatising evidently psychologically, connected apical of nan quality toll of those strikes.'

Meanwhile successful Gaza, Israeli strikes killed astatine slightest 32 group overnight arsenic nan subject launched crushed operations successful nan hard-hit metropolis of Khan Younis.

Israel has continued to onslaught what it says are militant targets crossed Gaza astir a twelvemonth aft Hamas' October 7 onslaught ignited nan war, moreover arsenic attraction has shifted to Lebanon and increasing tensions pinch Iran.

In a awesome escalation by Iran, 181 missiles began raining down connected Israel connected Tuesday night, pinch immoderate rockets dramatically exploding into agleam orangish flames adjacent Tel Aviv arsenic aerial ambush sirens sounded. 

It prompted celebrations successful Tehran, wherever Israeli flags were paraded done nan streets and group alight by thousands of revellers.

But Israel's vaunted aerial defence systems stood patient against nan Iranian barrages, fired in revenge for Mr Netanyahu's run against Tehran's Hezbollah friends successful Lebanon, including nan assassination of its leader past week. 

Falling projectiles burned for illustration comets against nan nighttime entity aft they were intercepted by Israel's 'Iron Dome', supported by US and UK jets.

MailOnline understands that nan UK played a akin domiciled to erstwhile it defended Israel from an Iranian onslaught successful April. On that occasion, RAF fighter jets changeable down a number of drones, pinch support from respective different countries including nan US.

The White House said Iran's rocket volley was 'defeated and ineffective', pinch conscionable 1 reported decease - a Palestinian man who was killed by shrapnel successful nan West Bank.

Still, nan aerial battle forced civilians crossed Israel to activity shelter arsenic immense chunks of molten metallic collapsed to nan ground, and was 'twice nan scope' of Tehran's bombardment successful April, which saw much than 170 explosive drones and 120 ballistic missiles launched.

In nan aftermath of nan attack, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran considers nan matter 'concluded... unless Israeli authorities decides to induce further retaliation. In that scenario, our consequence will beryllium stronger and much powerful.'

He added that Iran informed nan US that nan 'operation is complete and we do not intend to continue'. 

Araghchi besides styled nan onslaught arsenic 'self-defence' and noted that Iran had 'exercised tremendous restraint' aft nan assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh successful Tehran successful July.  

But Israeli sources told Axios all options were connected nan array for retaliation contempt Iran's threats - including targeting lipid and moreover atomic facilities.

Despite Iran claiming a caller type of hypersonic rocket was besides utilized for nan first time, IDF Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said location were no Israeli casualties and conscionable a fewer hits successful nan centre of nan state and successful nan south.

'We are connected precocious alert some defensively and offensively,' Hagari said successful a TV broadcast. 

'We will take sides nan citizens of nan State of Israel. This onslaught will person consequences. We person plans, and we will run astatine nan spot and clip we decide.'

Israel declared UN main Antonio Guterres 'persona non grata', banning him from entering nan state for failing to condemn Iran's rocket onslaught connected Israel.

'Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran's heinous onslaught connected Israel does not merit to measurement ft connected Israeli soil. This is an anti-Israel Secretary-General who lends support to terrorists, rapists, and murderers,' said Foreign Minister Israel Katz successful a statement.

President Joe Biden said his management is 'fully supportive' of Israel and that he's successful 'active discussion' pinch aides astir what nan due consequence should be. 

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who was connected nan telephone pinch his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu erstwhile nan Iranian onslaught began yesterday, said: 'I americium profoundly concerned that nan region is connected nan brink and I americium profoundly concerned astir nan consequence of miscalculation.'

In a uncommon urgent connection from Downing Street yesterday, nan Prime Minister warned Brits to evacuate Lebanon, wherever Israeli forces launched a crushed penetration connected Iran-backed Hezbollah targets connected Monday night.

Britain's Defence Secretary John Healey and Foreign Secretary David Lammy some 'condemned' Iran's attack, adding: 'British forces person this evening played their portion successful attempts to forestall further escalation successful nan Middle East.' 

Mr Healey added: 'I want to convey each British unit progressive successful nan cognition for their courageousness and professionalism. The UK stands afloat down Israel's correct to take sides its state and its group against threats.'