In Lebanon, report identifies the militant killed after crossing into the Ramim Ridge area

The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah terror organization, published details today about the militant who infiltrated the Ramim Ridge area and nearly crossed the fence, Hamza Hamoud, 25, from the Ba'r al-Abed neighborhood in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, after his family had moved from the village of Markaba in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon to Beirut back in 1978. “Hamza probably needed nothing more than anger and hostility toward Israel on his last journey to pull out the pistol and knife in his possession, when he set out on his motorcycle to the southernmost point,” reported Roi Kais on Kan 11.

The newspaper also wrote that Hamoud's friends say that two days ago he called his friends and relatives, “when he was at the southernmost point,” as it was written, and expressed anger at what Israel is doing, and therefore decided to take revenge, fully understanding that the final path would be fighting. The report also noted that Hamoud slept in one of the valleys near IDF forces before he reached the village of Markaba and from there entered Israeli territory, where IDF forces identified him, engaged him in combat and then killed him. The article also stated: “According to ancient and modern, local and global history, this resistance path begins with one event involving one person. Then it expands and grows like a snowball. Hamza, the lone and inexperienced young man, without advanced equipment or support, even without detailed knowledge of the border area and its hills, valleys and caves, shattered the narrative promoted by the enemy army and the prime minister of the occupation for about two years regarding the security buffer zone or the yellow line area. Hamza, the fighter who crossed and reached the encounter with enemy soldiers in the heart of a military post inside a settlement, draws with his blood the path for the fighters who will come after him and for those who will sacrifice themselves when they arrive one day and cross.”