Iraqi Resistance targets 'Israel' in Dead Sea, US bases
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The Islamic Resistance in Iraq attacks, for the first time, a vital Israeli target in the Dead Sea while it continues to target US occupation bases in Syria and Iraq.
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US soldiers stand amid damage at a site of Iranian bombed Ain al-Asad air US occupation base, in Anbar, Iraq, January 13, 2020. (AFP)
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced on Thursday that it attacked a vital target for the Israeli occupation on the coast of the Dead Sea.
The Resistance said, in a statement, that the attack came in response to the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq also confirmed that it would continue to "strike the enemy's strongholds."
المقاومة الاسلامية في العراق
— رضا الباشا Rida Albasha (@rh_albasha) November 2, 2023
استهدفنا هدفا حيويا للكيان الاسرائيلي عند سواحل البحر الميت pic.twitter.com/MOMvnNqeEc
Shortly after, Al Mayadeen's sources reported that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted American forces in Erbil with two kamikaze drones.
🔺بيان جديد صادر عن المقاومة الاسلامية في #العراق 🔺 pic.twitter.com/evbB9twxKA
— jamal cheaib (@JamalCheaib) November 2, 2023
Moreover, the US forces' occupation base in the city of al-Shaddadi, located south of al-Hasakah, northeastern Syria, was targeted by a suicide drone.
Hezbollah deploys drones in a first, targets 19 Israeli sites at once
In a related context, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon Hezbollah announced for the first time in the ongoing confrontations that it had used drones to target an Israeli military base near the Lebanese border.
In an operation on Thursday, the Resistance group announced it had targeted the headquarters of the Israeli Zebdine barracks in occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with two UAVs carrying a heavy load of explosives, confirming direct hits.
Footage from the Islamic Resistance operations today targeting the headquarters of an Israeli enemy army battalion in the #Zebdine Barracks in the occupied #Lebanese Shebaa Farms using an assault drone armed with a large quantity of explosives, which accurately hit its target… https://t.co/P9c5Tqgtl3
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 2, 2023
Following the Zebdine operation, sources informed Al Mayadeen that Israeli helicopters were seen landing at the targeted sites and started evacuating a significant number of casualties.
The drone attack came as part of a wide-scale operation carried out by Hezbollah, during which 19 Israeli military bases and outposts were targeted simultaneously, the Resistance said in a statement, noting that guided missiles, rockets, artillery shells, and the newly introduced drones were used.
The targeted sites and positions, according to the Resistance's statement, are as follows:
Marj,
al-Malikiyah,
Jal al-Deer,
Ras Naqoura,
Khirbet Zrariyt,
al-Dhayrah
As for the points targeted they are as follows in detail:
- 12/13/14/16 between al-Bahri site and Jal al-Alam,
- 59 opposite al-Dhayrah site,
- 62/67 opposite Hadab al-Bustan,
- 89/90/91 between Mount Abu Dajaj and Khirbet Zrariyt,
- 394/395/396 opposite the occupied town of Hounin.
Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that dozens of rockets were fired toward northern occupied Palestine in under an hour, with one missile striking the central street of "Kiryat Shmona" and leading to the injury of two settlers.
Footage shows the aftermath of a missile that targeted "Kiryat Shmona", according to Israeli media.
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 2, 2023
Settlers in "Kiryat Shmona" and al-Jalil were asked to remain in shelters over suspicion that a drone infiltrated occupied #Palestine from #Lebanon's side. pic.twitter.com/Dc2ewxnGRw
The "Kiryat Shmona" operation was later claimed by Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades - Lebanon, who announced that its Resistance fighters targeted the settlements in north Palestine with 12 rockets in response to the ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza.
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