Summary:
- Hezbollah attacked Northern Israel with Rocket Fire.
- Hezbollah and Israel escalated their fighting over night, with both groups conducting significant cross-border attacks.
- based in Lebanon The IDF reported that Hezbollah had launched 150 missiles into Israel as payback for recent operations against it.
- According to accounts, rockets have landed far farther into Israel than they had in the past, causing injuries and property damage.
- Israel claimed to have destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers after conducting airstrikes on locations in southern Lebanon.
- Fears of an all-out conflict are growing, and the UN has warned that the region is “on the brink of imminent catastrophe”.
Hezbollah seeks to convey the idea that it is in decline but not out:
According to an Al Jazeera article, the firefight between Israel and Hezbollah has heightened
tensions in the Middle East. Israel has carried over 400 attacks on Lebanon, while Hezbollah has
fired rockets toward a crucial Israeli facility, Ramat David, which is located close to the city of
Haifa.
The organization said in a statement that it used dozens of missiles to target vital military
locations, particularly the Rafael Electronics manufacturing complexes north of Haifa, in
retaliation for the “paper and wireless devices massacre,” according to Anadolu Agency.
A group of teenage Hezbollah members brought a giant banner to hang over the street where
Israel attacked and killed at least 16 of the group’s special force leaders last night in Dahieh, a
southern suburb of Beirut. It had an Arabic poetry written on it that promised retribution.
However, following the Dahieh attack and two waves of pager and walkie talkie explosions that
injured over 3000 persons permanently, many of them Hezbollah militants, many began to
question whether the group was still capable of doing anything.
The strike on a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut on Thursday claimed 45 lives, according to the
health ministry of Lebanon. The IDF claims that during an attack on a building south of the city, it
killed multiple senior members of the armed group.
Notably, the explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon had disastrous effects. Over 450
people were injured and at least 20 people died in Lebanon as a result of the most recent attacks
on Wednesday.
In the meantime, the Israeli army confirmed the strike by stating that around 115 rockets were
fired toward northern Israel from southern Lebanon.
In a related development, the Israeli army declared in a statement that it is “now attacking
targets of Hezbollah in Lebanon” in retaliation for the organization’s assault on Haifa.
It stated that “in recent hours, the Air Force has intercepted aerial threats and launches carried
out by Hezbollah towards civilian spaces in the north of the country,” according to reports.
Additionally, the Israeli Defense Forces posted on the X account, claiming that Hezbollah is
targeting Israeli civilians and driving thousands of them to spend the night in bomb shelters.
Amid growing tensions between Israel and Lebanon, the UN special coordinator for Lebanon has
issued a warning, citing “imminent catastrophe” in the Middle East.
Israel airstrike, according to Lebanon, killed three individuals:
Special coordinator Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert wrote on X, “With the region on the verge of an
imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overstated enough: there is NO military solution that will
make either side safer.” Notably, tensions increased following the death toll from an Israeli Air
raid in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which claimed the lives of at least 37 people, including seven
women and three children. The comment from Lebanon’s health minister was cited in the story.
Patients at a Haifa hospital are moved to an underground parking lot:
After Hezbollah missiles entered the city in the early hours of the morning, Rambam Hospital in
Haifa, northern Israel, is moving its patients to a safe underground parking area until further
notice. Staff members are seen hauling hospital beds full of patients across the parking lot in a
photo and video that the hospital posted.
According to the health ministry, all hospitals in northern Israel are now located within approved safe zones.
There should be more Hezbollah strikes to come:
Hezbollah launched a nocturnal attack using medium-range Fadi 1 missiles, a replica of the
Iranian Kheibar missile. They are mostly produced in Syria in establishments that are under the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah’s supervision.
Israel launched an attack on one of these facilities in Masyaf, Syria, only a few weeks ago. Fadi 2 missiles, which were seen in
Hezbollah’s propaganda movie featuring its tunnel facility Imad 4, were also deployed by the
group around a month ago. The video provoked conjecture on the true location of this intricate,
expertly constructed tunnel—under the Lebanese mountains or somewhere else in the area.
