Hezbollah responds, strikes sensitive military Israeli bases
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The Islamic Resistance confirms direct hits in the Israeli military bases.
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Hezbollah Resistance fighters during a public military exercise in Aramta, Southern Lebanon, in May 2023 (AFP)
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah - announced on Monday the targeting of two sensitive Israeli occupation military sites in northern occupied Palestine as an initial response to the martyrdom of three Resistance fighters killed in an Israeli aggression on a Lebanese town near the Palestinian border earlier this afternoon.
In a statement, Hezbollah said it targeted "Biranit" barracks, which is the command center of the Galilee Division, and the "Avivim" military base, the command center for a battalion affiliated with the Western Brigade.
The operation was carried out using guided missiles and mortar shells, confirming direct hits to the military sites.
Hezbollah mourned three of its fighters; Hossam Mohammed Ibrahim, Ali Raif Ftouni, and Ali Hassan Hodroj earlier.
On its part, the Lebanese army announced that border areas in the south were bombarded by the Israeli entity, with several mortar shells falling in the yard of one of the army's bases, resulting in minor injuries to a Lebanese officer.
Israeli media reported on Monday evening that four fighters attempted to infiltrate the settlement of "Arab Al-Aramshe", which is adjacent to the Lebanese village of al-Dhayra. The group confronted an Israeli occupation force while explosions and gunfire could be heard in towns nearby.
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Later, Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, Al-Quds Brigades, announced its responsibility for the operation.
Reporting on the Israeli aggression, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in southern Lebanon said the Israeli occupation shelled the outskirts of Lebanese Ayta al-Shab town and neighboring villages. The aggression also targeted the border towns of al-Dhayra and Yarine.
He confirmed that the scope of Israeli shelling expanded to include the town of Yaroun, adding that "a house was hit in the outskirts of the town."
Al Mayadeen's correspondent later reported that the occupation forces had started bombing the outskirts of al-Dhayra and Yarine before moving to the outskirts of Ayta ash-Shab and adjacent towns, targeting residential areas.
Israeli media reported on Sunday that a "conflict" with Lebanon will not resemble the "conflict" in the southern region, referring to Gaza, stressing that “Israel” does not want a battle in the north [with Hezbollah].
Channel 12 military affairs commentator Nir Dvori said, “No one can say where things are headed in the north, so there are very high preparations there,” adding that “some of the [Israeli] forces that were recruited during the last 24 hours have gone up to the north.”
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The Israeli concerns came after Hezbollah conducted an operation targeting Israeli military sites near the Lebanese border in support of the Palestinian Resistance currently engaging in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Three military bases, ar-Radar, Zebdine, and Ruwaisat al-Alam, located in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms, were simultaneously attacked with a number of guided anti-armor missiles and a barrage of mortar shells.
"On the path of liberating what is left of our occupied Lebanese land and in solidarity with the triumphant Palestinian Resistance and the [persevering] and patient Palestinian people... groups of martyr leader Hajj Imad Mughniyeh, this Sunday morning, corresponding to 8 October 2023, attacked three occupation sites in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms," the Resistance party said in a statement.
