Click to see full-size image. By Al-Manar TV correspondent Ali Shoeib.
Hezbollah launched a series of attacks from southern Lebanon on February 1, targeting military sites and settlements in northern Israel.
In two separate statements, Hezbollah said its fighters fired rockets at two sites of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), al-Ramtha and al-Samaqa. In another statement, it announced that it had destroyed surveillance equipment at the al-Radar site, which is located on one of the peaks of Mount Hermon.
The attacks were carried out “to support the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance,” Hezbollah noted its statements.
In addition to the attacks claimed by Hezbollah, the IDF said that several rockets were launched from southern Lebanon at the settlements of Kiryat Shmona and Metula, causing no injuries.
The IDF carried out an airstrike against a building used by Hezbollah in the town of Tayr Harfa in southern Lebanon, in response to the attacks. Video footage of the airstrikes were released. No casualties or material losses were reported by Lebanese media.
Hezbollah and its allies have been launching attacks from southern Lebanon against the IDF since the outbreak of the war in Gaza with the aim of supporting the Palestinian people and armed factions there.
So far, the clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border have resulted in six civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of nine IDF soldiers. On the Lebanese side, more than 200 have been killed. The toll includes 166 Hezbollah fighters, 14 of whom were killed in Syria, 28 Palestinians, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 24 civilians.
