“Before I am a brigade commander, I am a soldier," Shamka said. "And I remember the feelings of a soldier at moments like these."

He warned that those who will pay the price of holding the ridge will be the soldiers and Israeli citizens living in the north.

After crossing the Litani for the first time in decades, Givati troops seized the Beaufort Ridge, uncovered Hezbollah weapons caches and pushed deeper into southern Lebanon; 'Now…