Hezbollah Falaq, Burkan rockets pummel high value Israeli targets
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Hezbollah announces with "utmost pride and honor" the martyrdom of two of its fighters while carrying out their Resistance duty on the path to al-Quds.
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A screengrab from a video posted by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah showing an ATGM position somewhere in Southern Lebanon in February 2024 (Military Media)
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah announced Friday conducting around a dozen operations against Israeli occupation bases and forces, as part of the support front triumphing for Gaza.
Opening up the operations at 3:35 pm, the Resistance group targeted surveillance equipment at the Bayad Blida site, destroying it with precision strikes.
Hezbollah fighters hit the al-Malikiyah military site at 5:20 with two Burkan heavy rockets, achieving direct hits.
Additionally, the group said it targeted at 5:40 pm a building used by Israeli soldiers in the Margaliot settlement with rockets.
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In another attack at 5:35 pm, Hezbollah destroyed a Merkava tank in the Shtula settlement with guided missiles, killing and wounding its crew. The tank was deployed at the site as a replacement for another Merkava destroyed by the Resistance yesterday. Following the tank's destruction, the group fired artillery shells at Israeli soldiers moving around the wreckage, achieving direct hits.
Islamic Resistance fighters also struck at 6:30 pm the patrol company HQs in the Dovev barracks with Falaq rockets, causing significant damage.
Also at 6:30, a building in the Manara settlement used by military intelligence was targeted with appropriate weapons, leading to the destruction of surveillance equipment.
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Hezbollah targeted at 7:30 pm the al-Ramtha military base in the occupied Kfar Chouba hills with rockets, causing direct damage.
Responding to an Israeli attack on the village of Hanaouay, the Resistance announced carrying out two operations using explosive UAVs.
In the first operation at 6:35 pm, Resistance fighters targeted a position in the Yoav base where Israeli officers and soldiers were stationed using a one-way drone, confirming a precise hit. The second attack, also using a one-way drone, was carried out at 7:05 pm and targeted the newly established 91st Division headquarters in Ayelet, also accurately hitting the positions of Israeli officers and soldiers directly.
At 9:30 pm, Hezbollah struck the command center of Battalion 769 in Beit Hillel with Falaq rockets, achieving a direct hit.
Israeli media acknowledged that four Israeli soldiers were injured with varying degrees as a result of a drone attack on the Shtula settlement near the border with Lebanon.
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Hezbollah reiterated that the operations come in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza and their brave and honorable Resistance and in response to the Israeli aggression on the steadfast southern Lebanese villages and civilian homes.
The Islamic Resistance also announced that two of its fighters were martyred on Friday while carrying out their Resistance duty on the path to al-Quds.
The martyrs were identified as Hussein Nabil al-Mawla (Chemran), and Hassan Adel Che'bi (Jawad Ali).
Al-Mawla was born in 1996 and was from the town of Harbata, Beqaa.
Hezbollah official statement: martyr Hussein Nabil Al-Mawla (Chemran)
— aya (@political_aya__) May 24, 2024
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Che'bi was born in 2000 and was from the town of Tayr Harfa, South Lebanon.
Hezbollah official statement: martyr Hassan Adel Che'bi (Jawad Ali)
— aya (@political_aya__) May 24, 2024
{Among the faithful are men who fulfill what they have pledged to Allah: there are some among them who have fulfilled their pledge, & some of them who still wait, & they have not changed in the least} pic.twitter.com/ZIEVrAXfDJ
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