Battle of Ayta ash-Shab

Battle of Ayta ash-Sha'b
	Part of 2006 Lebanon War
Date	12 July – 14 August 2006
Location	Ayta ash-Sha'b, Southern Lebanon
Result	Hezbollah victory Israel failed to capture the town;
Belligerents
Israel Defense Forces	Hezbollah
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
35th Paratroopers Brigade 101st battalion; 890th battalion; 84th Nahal Brigade; 2nd Infantry Reserve Brigade (Carmeli); 847th Armored Reserve Brigade; 551st Paratrooper Reserve Brigade 8219th Engineering Battalion;	60–70 fighters (Israeli estimate); 100 fighters (Lebanese estimate)
Casualties and losses
28 killed (IDF claim); 200 killed and wounded (Hizbullah claim)	11 fighters killed (Lebanese, Israeli and International media estimates) ; 40 killed (IDF claim); 2 captured
	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.

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