Battle of Ayta ash-Sha'b

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 (Hezbollah claim)	11 fighters killed (Lebanese 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 over the town of Ayta ash-Sha'b in southern Lebanon. The fighting started with the 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid. After a failed Israeli incursion immediately after the cross-border raid, the town was subjected to two and a half weeks of intense bombardment by air and artillery. The ground battle for the Ayta ash-Sha'b lasted about two weeks, from late July to mid-August. The IDF deployed five brigades. The Hezbollah force in the town was estimated to consist of little more than half a company. Still the IDF failed to capture the town and suffered relatively heavy casualties in the process.