Hezbollah dismisses Israeli claims of preemptive attack as ‘baseless’

Hezbollah has dismissed as “baseless” Israel’s claims of preemptive action against the Lebanese resistance movement, saying that Israeli forces failed to intercept and shoot down the drones launched by resistance fighters.

A Hezbollah source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Qatari al-Araby television network on Sunday that Hezbollah resistance forces had managed to deceive the Israeli army to launch heavy barrages of rockets.

According to the unnamed source, the Lebanese fighters could strike two “strategic” sites at the northern flank of the coastal city of Tel Aviv in the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories, stating that the details of the operation would be announced later on.

There have been no casualties as a result of Israeli aerial assaults on more than 30 buildings, as we had evacuated them earlier, the source said.

“The Israeli military’s claims of thwarting the Hezbollah attack are unfounded as our drones have successfully penetrated the airspace over the occupied territories,” the source added.

“All offensive drones were launched at specific times from all of their sites” and that they crossed the border into Israel “towards their intended targets from multiple routes.”

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“Thus, our military operation for today has been completed,” the source said.

The source reiterated that Israel’s claims about its “preemptive actions, the targets it allegedly hit, and its supposed disruption of the Resistance’s attack are baseless and contradict the facts on the ground.”

The source noted that more details would be provided in a speech by Hezbollah’s Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, later today.

Hezbollah operation conducted precisely, successfully: Report

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news channel, citing reliable information, reported that Hezbollah’s large drone and rocket strike against the occupied territories, which came in retaliation for the Israeli military’s killing of its commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut in July, was carried out accurately and effectively.

The report added that what the occupying Tel Aviv regime has claimed so far regarding its supposed thwarting of the Hezbollah operation is downright lies, and a futile attempt to deceive its own public opinion. 

Hezbollah could precisely hit its designated targets despite the Israeli regime’s reliance on significant American intelligence and operational support, the al-Mayadeen TV report added.

It stressed that the operation succeeded despite Israel’s full state of alert for over a month following Shukr’s targeted killing. 

The first phase of the Hezbollah attack was successfully over and could warn Israel against targeting civilians in southern Lebanon as the response to such acts of aggression would be extremely severe.

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