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Hezbollah pounds multiple Israeli targets after assassination of member

Saturday, 22 June 2024 7:21 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 22 June 2024 7:30 AM ]

Smoke rises from an Israeli military position that was attacked by Hezbollah fighters near a Lebanese border village. (File photo)

Lebanese Hezbollah resistance fighters have conducted a series of strikes against Israeli sites in the northern part of the 1948 occupied territories in response to the brutal aggression against Gaza.

The group announced in a statement that its fighters struck the Ras Naqoura base with a squadron of kamikaze drones on Friday, stressing that the unmanned aerial vehicles hit the designated targets precisely and inflicted casualties on Israeli forces.

It added that the aerial raid was carried out in reprisal for the Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon’s southern village of Deir Kifa on Thursday, which targeted a car and killed a man.

Hezbollah forces also targeted Ruwaisat al-Qarn and Zibdin sites in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with separate rocket barrages.

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A series of other strikes by Hezbollah fighters targeted al-Samaqah and Ramtha outposts in the occupied Kfar Shuba Hills.

The resistance group also targeted an Israeli artillery position at the al-Zaoura site, hitting it accurately.

Hezbollah has been carrying out almost daily rocket attacks on Israeli positions in retaliation for the regime’s aggression against Lebanon and in solidarity with Palestinians.

The genocidal war in Gaza has killed at least 37,431 Palestinians, predominantly women and children so far.

At least 455 people have also been killed on the Lebanese border, including more than 80 civilians, according to a tally by AFP.

Two Israeli wars waged against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006 were met with strong resistance from Hezbollah, resulting in the retreat of the regime in both conflicts.

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