⚔The Markaba and Khiam plain battles: 18 killed and 15 tanks

On 10 August 2006 the enemy lost 18 dead, officers and men, and 15 Merkava tanks were destroyed on the axes, the fiercest at Markaba where ten were killed, four of them inside a tank, with three tanks at Ainata and four dead at Mashrou' al-Taybeh. Aircraft dropped leaflets on Hay al-Sellom, Burj al-Barajneh and Chiyah and bombed the Ras Beirut lighthouse and the Radio Lebanon antennas in Amchit, "a message to the government"; Olmert called his army commanders "insolent" after the defeats, and Hariri told CNN that "Lebanon has nothing to do with this war".