Friday, 20/03/2026   
   Beirut 19:02

Hezbollah Maintains Relentless Fire on Israeli Targets Despite Claimed Air Superiority by Enemy

Screen capture of a video released by Hezbollah Military Media showing a missile strike on Israeli airbase of Palmachim (March 2026).

A rapid succession of some thirty operations announced so far by Hezbollah on Friday underscored the group’s sustained firepower and operational tempo, challenging Israeli claims of air superiority as rockets, drones, and guided weapons struck multiple targets across the border with occupied Palestine and the northern Palestinian territories.

Hezbollah’s Military Media announced 31 operations so far on Friday, “in defense of Lebanon and it’s people,” as said in the statements.

The operations demonstrated Hezbollah’s ability to maintain heavy and diversified firepower despite ongoing Israeli aggression, striking targets including Israeli settlements, military installations and gatherings in nortehrn occupied Palestine and along the frontier.

The first statement issued by Hezbollah Militray Media said that Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Shlomi settlement with a rocket barrage at 01:40 on Friday.

The second statement said fighters targeted the Kiryat Shmona settlement with a salvo of rockets at 09:00.

At 09:30 on Friday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Israeli settlement of Yiftah with a barrage of rockets, the second statement read.

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Hezbollah resistance fighter in an image released by the group’s Military Media.

At 12:15 on Friday, resistance fighters fired a salvo of rockets targeting a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the Lebanese border city of Khiam, according to the third statement.

Later at 12:35, the resistance fighters targeted Shomera settlement with a barrage of rockets, the fourth statement read.

The fifth statement announced that the resistance fighters pounded the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona with a salvo of rockets at 09:00 on Friday.

The Hezbollah Military Media announced drone strikes employing kamikaze UAVs on Ya’ra and Mattat settlements at 11:00 and 12:00 on Friday, according to the sixth and seventh statements.

Later at 12:20 on Friday, Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters fired salvo of rockets targeting the settlement of Ramot Naftali, the eighth statement read.

The ninth statement announced a rocket strike on Hanita settlement at 10:00 on Friday.

At 13:00 on Friday, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Biranit Barracks and Netu’a settlement with barrages of rockets, according to the tenth and eleventh statements.

The twelfth statement announced another rocket attack on the Israeli settlement, this time targeting the Israeli settlement of Zar’it at 12:00 on Friday.

At 13:45, Islamic resistance fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava in Baydar Al-Faq’ani in the Lebanese border town of Taybe with a guided missile, the thirteenth statement read, adding that a direct hit was achieved.

The Israeli settlement of Yir’on was targeted with a barrage of rockets at 12:50 on Friday, according to the fourteenth statement.

The Islamic Resistance fighters then fired artillery shells targeting a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Taybe Project area at 13:00 on Friday, the fifteenth statement read.

At 14:30 and 14:10, Hezbollah resistance fighters fired barrages of rockets targeting the Israeli settlements of Shlomi and Avivim, according to the sixteenth and seventeenth statement.

The newly established Israeli site of Jabal Al-Bat in the Lebanese border town of Aytaroun was targeted with a salvo of rockets at 14:10 on Friday, the eighteenth statement read.

At 14:20, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers in the Aytaroun forest with a rocket barrage, according to the nineteenth statement.

Later at 15:00 on Friday, the Israeli barracks of Kfar Giladi was targeted with a salvo of rockets, the twentieth statement announced.

The twenty-first statement said that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli enemy army position on Jabal Wardeh in the border town of Markaba with appropriate weapons at 12:30 on Friday.

At 15:00, the Islamic Resistance fighters staged a drone strike targeting the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona, the twenty-second statement read.

At 15:30 on Friday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Tifn base east of the occupied city of Acre with a squadron of attack drones, according to the twenty-third statement.

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Drones deployed by hezbollah fighters against Israeli targets (March 2026 / image released by the group’s Military Media).

Later at15:40, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gatherings of Israeli enemy army soldiers in the southern outskirts of Alma Al-Shaab and Dhaira Lebanese border towns with barrages of rockets, the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth statements read.

Israeli gatherings in Ayta Al-Shaab’s Khallet Warde area, eastern outskirts of Markaba, and the southern outskirts of Markaba with barrages of rockets and artillery fire, according to the twenty-sixth, twenty seventh and twenty-eighth statements.

At 15:20 and 16:25, Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona was targeted for third and fourth time on Friday with barrages of rockets, the twenty-ninth and thirtieth statements read.

The thirty-first statement announced a rocket attack targeting the Israeli base of Filon (Pilon) south of Rosh Pina at 15:15 on Friday.

Meanwhile on Friday, Hezbollah Military Media released a video showing a rocket attack by the Lebanese resistance group on the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona on Thursday.

Source: Al-Manar English Website