In a series of coordinated operations overnight and into Wednesday, Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance group repelled Israeli attempts of advance along the border between Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories, while keeping high momentum of firepower targeting the Israeli settlements in northern occupied territories.
From precision strikes on Israeli enemy gatherings and tanks in the border town of Al-Qawzah to targeted missile attacks on northern settlements including Kiryat Shmona, Dishon, and Safad, resistance fighters repelled invasions, forced retreats, and inflicted direct hits, while air defense units drove back enemy warplanes during assaults on southern Lebanon.
The operations, part of Operation Eaten Straw, demonstrates Hezbollah resistance’s unyielding defense of the homeland in face of brutal Israeli attacks.
The Lebanese resistance group’s Military Media released a series of statements detailing the ongoing operations “in defense of Lebanon and its people,” as said in the statements.
Hezbollah Military Media Statements
The first two statements announced rocket barrages targeting gatherings of Israeli troops and vehicles in Al-Qawzah southern border town at 23:20 on Tuesday and 00:30 on Wednesday.
At 01:30 on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance fighters fired a salvo of rockets at the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona, “as part of the warning issued to a number of settlements in northern occupied Palestine,” the third statement read.
Two Israeli Merkava tacks were targeted by guided missiles in Al-Qawzah at 04:45 and at 06:00 on Wednesday. Direct hits were achieved, the fourth ad sixth statement read. The sixth statement noted that while a military helicopter was attempting to land to evacuate the Israeli casualties, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted it with an air defense missile and forced it to retreat.
The fifth statement announced a rocket barrage and artillery shelling targeting Israeli troop gathering at 05:45, also in Al-Qawzah.
At 05:35 on Wednesday, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers in the Shomera Barracks with a squadron of attack drones, the seventh statement released by Hezbollah Military Media read.
Between 05:50 and 06:30 on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance fighters carried out four rocket attacks targeting Israeli barracks of Yiftah, Dado Base north of Safed, Dishon settlement and Berea barracks according to eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh statements.
The twelfth statement read that Islamic Resistance air defense units engaged an Israeli warplane during its assault on southern Lebanon, launching surface-to-air missiles that forced it to disengage and retreat at 17:30 on Tuesday.
At 07:00 and 07:40 on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance fighters fired barrages of rockets targeting gatherings of Israeli troops and vehicles in Al-Qawzah and Al-Naqoura, the thirteenth and fourteenth statements read.
The fifteenth statement announced that between 07:30 and 09:00 on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted gatherings of Israeli enemy vehicles and soldiers massed in the border towns of Al-Naqoura and Al-Qawzah and some settlements in northern occupied Palestine with ten rocket salvos totaling more than one hundred rockets, achieving direct hits.
A gathering of Israeli troops in Al-Qawzah was targeted anew at 08:40, this time with a kamikaze drone, resulting in confirmed casualties among enemy soldiers, the sixteenth statement read.
At 09:05 and 09:15 on Wednesday, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli troops and vehicles in the southern border cityof Khiam. The first strike employed rockets while the second employed a kamikaze drone the seventeenth and twentieth statements read.
Later at 10:15, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank in Taybe Project area with a kamikaze drone, according to the eighteenth statement.
The Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Al-Qawzah with a kamikaze drone, resulting in direct hits, the nineteenth statement read.
In the border town of Mais Al-Jabal (located in eastern sector of southern Lebanon), Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 09:15 on Wednesday an Israeli Hummer near the town’s hospital with a guided missile, the twenty-first statement read, adding that a direct hit was achieved.
At 10:40 on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance fighters launched a squadron of kamikaze drones targeting a gathering of Israeli soldiers in their newly established site in Al-Hamames Hill, south of Khiam border city, according to the twenty-second statement.
The Islamic Resistance fighters, at 10:45, foiled an Israeli attempt to pull the targeted Merkava tank in the Taybe Project, the twenty-third statement read, noting that the Israeli soldiers who attempted to pull the tank were targeted by a barrage of rockets.
Additional drone strikes were carried out by Islamic Resistance fighters against Israeli gatherings in Al-Qawzah and Alma Al-Shaab border towns at 05:30 and 09:30 on Wednesday, the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth statements read.
In the border town of Debel, Israeli concentrations were targeted for four times by rocket barrages at 08:30, 12:00, 12:45 and 14:00 on Wednesday, twenty-sixth, twenty-eighth, thirty and thirty-seventh statements read.
Israeli concentrations in Beit Leef and Al-Qawzah were targeted by rocket barrage and artillery shells at 6:00 and 08:30 on Wednesday, according to the twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth statements.
At 13:15, Islamic Resistance fighters shelled gathering of Israeli soldiers in Khiam with artillery rounds, the thirty-first statement read.
The Islamic Resistance fighters then, at 13:20, fired a barrage of rockets targeting Israeli barracks of Beit Hillel, according to the thirty-second statement.
Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Krayot area north of the occupied city of Haifa at 13:20 on Wednesday with a salvo of high-quality missiles, “in defense of Lebanon and its people, and in response to the enemy’s ongoing attacks on civilians, including bombings, forced displacement, and home demolitions,” the thirty-third statement read.
The Islamic Resistance fighters fired barrages of rockets, targeting Israeli settlement of Katzrin, as well as cities of Safed and Karmiel, according to thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth statements.
“After spotting a force of Israeli enemy soldiers in the town of Taybeh, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted them at 12:30 on Wednesday with a kamikaze drone, achieving direct hits, after which enemy helicopters intervened to evacuate the wounded,” the thirty-eighth statement read.
Hezbollah Military Media announced another drone strike, this time targeting Meron Air Operations Command and Control Base in northern occupied Palestine with an attack drone at 08:30 on Wednesday, according to the thirty-ninth statement.
At 11:00 on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a Hummer vehicle belonging to the Israeli enemy army in the border town of Maroun Al-Ras with an attack drone and achieved a direct hit, the fortieth statement read.
Another drone strike targeted Israeli soldiers in the border town of Taybe at 14:30 on Wednesday, the forty-first statement read.
The Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a logistics base belonging to the Israeli enemy army in the settlement of Kerem Ben Zimra in the Upper Galilee at 14:10 on Wednesday with a rocket salvo, according to the forty-second statement.
Source: Al-Manar English Website