After 18 months of Israeli air dominance and claims that Hezbollah had been dismantled south of the Litani River, advancing enemy forces encountered a different reality on the ground. Hezbollah resistance fighters have surfaced in a series of fierce engagements, confronting Israeli attempts to advance and launching rocket strikes on targets across the Zionist entity.
The Lebanese resistance group’s fighters on Monday have heroically repelled Israeli attempts to advance across the southern Lebanese border, targeting the enemy gatherings with rocket weapons, as part of Hezbollah’s Operation Eaten Straw.
In statements on Monday, Hezbollah’s Military Media announced a series of operations carried out by the Islamic Resistance fighters “in defense of Lebanon and its people.”
At 01:15 on Monday, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy army soldiers at the Calf Hill site, north of the Kfar Yuval settlement, with a rocket salvo, the first statement read.
At 23:30 on Sunday, an Israeli enemy army vehicle and soldiers gathered in Jdeidet Meiss El Jabal with artillery shells, the second statement on Monday announced.
At 00:40 on Monday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the newly established site in Jabal Al-Bat in the border town of Aytaroun with artillery shells, according to the third statement.
Later at 02:35 on Monday, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy army soldiers at the Calf Hill site north of the Kfar Yuval settlement for the second time with a rocket salvo, the fourth statement read.
The fourth strike on Monday coincided with the fifth one. At 02:35, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy army soldiers at the Hounin Gate opposite the town of Markaba with a rocket salvo, the fifth statement read.
Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Soldier’s House facility (Beit Ha-Chayal) in Kiryat Shmona twice, the sixth and seventh statements indicated.
At 09:00 on Monday, 16/03/2026, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy army soldiers in the Kiryat Shmona settlement with a swarm of attack drones, according to statement 8.
At 10:00 on Monday, March 16, 2026, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy army soldiers in the Zar’it settlement with a rocket barrage, according to statement 9.
“At 12:30 PM on Monday, March 16, 2026, Islamic Resistance fighters shot down an Israeli Hermes 450 drone over the city of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon using appropriate weapons. Israeli warplanes then attacked the crash site between Bint Jbeil and the town of Aitaroun,” statement 10 read.
At 17:00 on Monday, 16/03/2026, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy army soldiers in the settlement of Shomera with a rocket salvo, according to statement 11.
In the context of the warning issued by the Islamic Resistance to the occupied settlement of Nahariya in northern occupied Palestine, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted it at 18:00 on Monday, 16/03/2026 with a barrage of rockets and a swarm of attack drones, according to statement 12.
At 15:30 on Monday, March 16, 2026, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy army vehicles and soldiers in the Taybeh project area in southern Lebanon with a rocket barrage, according to statement 13.
At 15:30 on Monday, March 16, 2026, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy army vehicles and soldiers at Al-Khazan Hill in the town of Al-Adaisseh on the Lebanese-Palestinian border with artillery shells, according to statement 14.
At 18:30 on Monday, 16/03/2026, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the newly established site in Jabal Al-Bat in the border town of Aitaroun with a rocket salvo, according to statement 15.
At 20:35 on Monday, 16/03/2026, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted a Merkava tank in the Taybeh Project area with a guided missile and hit it directly, according to statement 16.
At 20:50 on Monday, 16/03/2026, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a second Merkava tank in the Taybeh Project area with a guided missile and hit it directly, according to statement 17.
“In continuation of the two previous statements, and after targeting and destroying two Merkava tanks in the Taybeh project area with guided missiles and achieving direct hits, the Israeli enemy army brought helicopters to the area of the operation to evacuate the casualties under heavy fire and smoke cover. The Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the evacuation area in two waves at 21:00 and 21:20 with missile salvos,” statement 18 read.
At 22:00 on Monday, March 16, 2026, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a third Merkava tank in the Taybeh Project area with a guided missile, scoring a direct hit, according to statement 19.
At 22:00 on Monday, 16/03/2026, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Calf Hill site north of the Kfar Yuval settlement with a rocket salvo, according to statement 20.
At 21:35 on Monday, March 16, 2026, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers in the city of Khiam with a rocket barrage, according to statement 21.
At 15:00 on Monday, 16/03/2026, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Katsafia barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan with a swarm of attack drones, according to statement 22.
At 18:00 on Monday, 16/03/2026, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted radar sites and control rooms at the Ramat David Air Base in northern occupied Palestine with a squadron of attack drones, according to statement 23.
On the other hand, the Israeli media reported a number of injuries in Hezbollah missile strike on Nahariya settlement in the north of occupied Palestine.
Meanwhile on Monday, Hezbollah’s Military Media released a video showing how a guided missile fired by Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava at the eastern outskirts of Markaba Lebanese border town. The operation was dated on March 8.
Later on Monday, Hezbollah’s Military Media announced two other strikes on the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona.
At 05:40, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the targeted the Soldier’s House facility (Beit Ha-Chayal) in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona with a rocket barrage, the sixth statement read.
The same facility was targeted anew at 08:30 on Monday with a quality missile and a squadron of kamikaze drones, according to the seventh statement.
A summary of Sunday’s operations released by Hezbollah’s Military Media pointed to 25 strikes, 13 of them were carried out against targets in the occupied Palestinian territories while the 12 others were carried against Israeli gatherings in the Lebanese territories.