Monday, 09/03/2026   
   Beirut 16:52

“Weakened” Hezbollah Still Stands Its Ground, Pounds Israeli Targets

Hezbollah fighters operating in south Lebanon in an image from 2024.

While some rushed to pronounce the Hezbollah Lebanese resistance group “weakened”, its fighters continue to prove otherwise, confronting Israeli enemy advances and pounding Israeli targets with dozens of rockets from an area that was claimed to be disarmed.

The Lebanese resistance group’s Military Media announced so far on Monday twelve operations in which its fighters defended their land and fired rockets at Israeli targets in northern occupied Palestine with unshaken resolve, “in response to the criminal Israeli aggression that targeted dozens of Lebanese cities and towns as well as the Beirut’s Dahiyeh (southern suburb).

The first statement on Monday announced that Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters confronted Israeli helicopters that infiltrated into east Lebanon from the Syrian side.

At 23:50 on Sunday, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli force attempting to advance towards Khallat Al-Makhafer in Adaisseh border town with artillery shells, according to the second statement on released on Monday.

The same Israeli force was then targeted by Islamic Resistance fighters with artillery shells at 00:45 on Monday, the third statement announced.

Another Israeli force attempted to advance towards the border town of Aytaroun at 23:50 on Sunday. The Islamic Resistance forces targeted it with artillery shells, according to the fourth statement.

The Israeli force was targeted for the second time at 00:30 on Monday by Hezbollah fighters with artillery shells, the fifth statement on Monday added.

Later at 02:15, Islamic Resistance fighters observed another advance attempt by the Israeli force which was repelled in Adaisseh. Resistance fighters clashed with the Israeli force using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, forcing it to retreat to Khallat Al-Makhafer, according to the sixth statement.

At 05:50, Islamic Resistance fighters fired a barrage of rockets targeting the northern Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona “as part of the warning issued” earlier, Hezbollah Military Media announced in the seventh statement for Monday.

The resistance fighters launched a salvo of rockets targeting an Israeli gathering in Khallat Al-Makhafer, in the outskirts of Adaisseh, at 06:30, according to the eighth statement.

Later at 11:30 on Monday, Hezbollah fighters targeted Kiryat Shmona for the second time “as part of the warning issued” earlier, the ninth statement announced.

The Islamic Resistance fighters then, at 12:15 on Monday, fired a powerful barrage of rockets, targeting the Ze’ev air defense base in the northern Israeli occupied city of Haifa, according to the tenth statement.

Earlier at 06:30 on Monday, Islamic Resistance fighters fired salvoes of rockets targeting Israeli forces trying to advance in Markaba and Rub Al-Thalatheen, the eleventh and twelfth statements said.

The video below, circulated on social media, show rocket impact in Haifa.

Earlier on Saturday, Hezbollah issued evacuation warnings for Israeli settlers in Kiryat Shmona and Nahariya.

Source: Al-Manar English Website