Hezbollah strikes Tel Aviv, Haifa; unveils new precision missile

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has struck the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa in the occupied Palestinian territories with kamikaze drones and missiles, besides unveiling a new precision missile that it seeks to deploy in its ongoing struggle against the Israeli regime.

In a statement on Wednesday, the movement said it had launched a retaliatory aerial attack “with a squadron of attack drones on the Belo Base, which belongs to the reserve paratrooper brigade of the Israeli enemy army’s 98 Division south of Tel Aviv, for the first time and hit its targets accurately.”

Hezbollah said it had carried out the operation as part of the Khaybar series of operations under the slogan, "We are at your service O Nasrallah," referring to the movement’s former secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was martyred during intense Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon’s capital Beirut in late September.

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The leader of Hezbollah says the Lebanese Resistance movement is determined to force Israel to seek an end to its war on Lebanon.

The retaliation, the group said, came “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people.”

Hezbollah has conducted hundreds of such strikes since last October, when the regime launched a genocidal war on Gaza and markedly intensified its deadly aggression against Lebanon.

The brutal military onslaught has so far claimed the lives of at least 43,391 Palestinians, mostly women and children, while the escalation against Lebanon has killed at least 3,050 people.

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Separately, the movement announced staging an airstrike using a squadron of attack drones against the Haifa Naval Base that hosts a fleet of missile boats and submarines in Haifa Bay.

As in the case of the strike against Tel Aviv, the operation against Haifa was being carried out “for the first time and hit its targets accurately,” the group said.

Hezbollah’s fighters also staged “a complex operation” against the Stella Maris naval base, a strategic base used for naval monitoring and surveillance northwest of Haifa, with a barrage of missiles and a squadron of drones.

Israeli media outlets, meanwhile, reported that an Israeli trooper had been killed and around 10 others received injuries after Hezbollah targeted the illegal settlement of Avivim in the northern part of the occupied territories with rocket salvos.

The strike also wounded four illegal Israeli settlers, three of whom are reportedly in serious condition, and caused the targeted area to erupt in a huge blaze.

According to the outlets, an Israeli settler was also killed by Hezbollah’s rocket fire south of the city of Akka in the northwestern part of the territories.

In separate statements, Hezbollah reported that its fighters had targeted the Zevulun military industries base north of Haifa as well as the city of Safad with rocket salvos.

Footage circulated online also showed an advanced Israeli Merkava-4 tank that had been overturned as a result of Hezbollah’s retaliatory fire in the Maroun al-Ras Village in southern Lebanon, wounding its occupants.

Also on Wednesday, the movement said Fateh (Conqueror)-110, a precision surface-to-surface missile used to strike vital targets with an accuracy of 10 meters, had entered its firepower as it continues to respond to the Israeli regime’s aggression against Gaza and Lebanon.

The missile can fly as far as 300 kilometers (186 miles), boasts high destructive capabilities, can be launched from fixed or mobile platforms, and works on solid fuel.

The projectile has a 616-milimeter diameter, is 8.8 meters in length, weighs 3,450 kilograms, and is outfitted with a warhead weighing 500 kilograms.

Hezbollah has vowed to sustain its strikes until the Israeli regime ends its war on Gaza and aggression against Lebanon.

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