Hezbollah stages unprecedented strike on Israeli forces after Hamas cmdr. assassination
The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has staged an unprecedented retaliatory strike on Israeli forces stationed in the northern part of the occupied Palestinian territories after an Israeli attack that assassinated a senior Hamas’ commander in Lebanon.
On Saturday, Hezbollah reported targeting the Michve Alon base, which it identified as a gathering and mobilization site for Israeli troops and an emergency storage facility near the town of Safad, for the first time.
The movement said it hit the positions of Israeli officers and troopers at the outpost “with swarms of attack drones, striking them directly and inflicting confirmed casualties.”
The retaliation came a day after an Israeli attack targeted a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, assassinating Samer al-Hajj, a field commander with al-Qassam Brigades, which is Hamas’ armed wing. The Palestinian resistance movement has acknowledged losing al-Hajj to “a treacherous Zionist strike.”
The Israeli regime has been conducting near-daily attacks against the southern parts of Lebanon since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on Gaza.
Hezbollah has been responding with strikes aimed both at retaliating against the regime and supporting the war-hit Gazans.
Announcing the Saturday strike, Hezbollah likewise underlined that it staged the reprisal “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance.”
The regime, which waged wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006, has, meanwhile, been repeatedly threatening to expand its attacks into another wholesale military onslaught against the country.
Hezbollah has vowed to defend the Lebanese soil with all its resources.
It has also pledged to avenge the blood of Fuad Shukr, one of the group’s senior commanders, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ former political leader, who were killed in separate assassination operations conducted by Tel Aviv in Lebanon’s capital Beirut and the Iranian capital Tehran late last month.
Speaking on Tuesday, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the occupying regime was incapable of defending itself and was fearful of the Islamic Republic and the resistance’s response to the assassinations.
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