Hezbollah has carried out a fresh round of strikes against Israeli military positions in the north in response to the recent Israeli assassination of a top commander in southern Lebanon.
Sami Abdallah, better known by the nom the guerre Abu Taleb, was assassinated along with three other people in the Israeli strikes that targeted a residential building in the southern Lebanese town of Jwaya on Tuesday.
Hezbollah said in separate statements on Saturday that its forces had targeted “with guided missiles” Israel’s spying equipment and radar systems on Mount Meron as well as a gathering of the occupying regime’s soldiers in support of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and in response to the killing of Abdallah.
“In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance, and as part of the response to the assassination carried out by the Zionist enemy in the town of Jwaya, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance, targeted the headquarters of the Air Surveillance and Operations Management Unit at the Meron base with guided missiles, hitting and destroying part of its equipment and radars,” the Lebanese resistance movement said.
Hezbollah said it also “targeted a position of Israeli enemy soldiers at the Hadab Yaroun site with a guided missile, achieving a direct hit and causing those among them to be killed and wounded.”
The Israeli regime has repeatedly attacked southern Lebanon since October 7, 2023, when it launched a ferocious war on the besieged Gaza Strip that has so far killed about 37,300 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
In retaliation, Hezbollah has launched near-daily rocket attacks on Israeli positions in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
In its biggest attack since October 8, Hezbollah fired on Wednesday around 30 drones and 150 rockets at Israel in reprisal for the assassination of Abdallah.
Hezbollah has already fought off two Israeli wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. The resistance forced the regime to retreat in both conflicts.
