Hezbollah strikes Israeli military bases

Hezbollah strikes Israeli military bases

TEHRAN- The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has announced a series of operations targeting key Israeli military bases.

Hezbollah announced it targeted the Tel Haim base, which serves as the military intelligence division for Israeli forces, with a “barrage of qualitative missiles”. 

The base is located 120 kilometers from the Lebanese border in Tel Aviv. The operation, late on Thursday night, marks the first time that this sensitive Israeli site has been attacked. 

On Thursday night, Hezbollah said, “Drones targeted the Eliakim base (which houses training camps under the command of the northern region of the Israeli enemy army), located 50 kilometers from the Lebanese-Palestinian border, south of occupied Haifa, hitting the targets precisely.” 

The Israeli Stella Maris Naval Base (a strategic surveillance and monitoring base along the northern coast) 35 kilometers northwest of Haifa also came under missile fire. 

This is while drones “accurately hit their targets” at the Eliakim Base (housing training camps under the Israeli army’s Northern Command) 50 kilometers south of Haifa. 

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The Lebanese resistance movement said the latest strikes were part of the Khaybar Operations. 

On Friday, Hezbollah said its fighters “targeted the Shraga Base (the administrative headquarters of the Golani Brigade command) north of the occupied city of Akka with a missile barrage”. 

Also on Friday, Hezbollah continued its Khayber Operations that included a missile barrage on the Israeli Tirat Carmel Base, south of Haifa. 

Hezbollah further announced in a statement that another Israeli Hermes 450 drone was shot down over Lebanon.

According to Hezbollah’s previous statements, this is the sixth Hermes 450 and the ninth Israeli drone that has been shot down since the beginning of the ground attack on Lebanon in late September. 

Experts say the live images transmitted from the long-term flights of these Israeli drones play an important role in identifying positions and fighters of Hezbollah and managing the battlefield by the Israeli army.

The Tel Aviv military base struck for the first time 120 km from the Lebanese border The resistance also says it has inflicted heavy losses on the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on the Lebanese border. 

Over the past 48 hours, the Israeli military has announced the death of at least seven troops during combat in South Lebanon. There have been conflicting reports on the number of troops that have sustained injuries. 

According to Israeli media, an initial IOF probe on Thursday indicated that six troops from the Golani Brigade were killed in armed clashes with four Hezbollah fighters. 

Israeli Channel 14 revealed that 11 Israeli officers and soldiers were killed and over 10 others were injured within 48 hours during ongoing confrontations in Gaza and the southern Lebanese border. 

According to Israeli Army Radio, the IOF has laid out plans to create 600 additional graves for soldiers at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem). 

Military analysts have said that the actual death toll announced by the IOF may be higher, accusing the Israeli authorities of trying to conceal the real numbers. 

Reports also indicate that indirect talks have started between Hezbollah and the Israelis on a path to end the indiscriminate bombing campaign on Lebanon. 

Several days ago, Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said, “There is no sane person who thinks that we will agree to a settlement or solution that achieves the interest of Israel at the expense of Lebanon and its sovereignty.”

Analysts say the Lebanese resistance is escalating its operations in terms of quality and quantity, and the IOF is escalating its bombing of civilian areas in the suburbs of Beirut and elsewhere. 

source: tehrantimes.com