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Hezbollah’s Military Media has released video footage of the large-scale rocket and drone attack that targeted the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on July 4.
The Iran-backed Lebanese group carried out the large-scale attack in response to the assassination of its senior military commander Muhammad Nimah Nasser a day earlier, which was claimed by the IDF. Nasser was the head of one of the group’s three main regional units in its heartland, southern Lebanon.
During the attack, Hezbollah targeted 11 headquarters and bases of different IDF formations in northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. More than 200 rockets and 20 drones were reportedly launched by the group.
The IDF admitted that a reservist officer who served as a deputy company commander in the Yiftah Reserve Armored Brigade’s 8679th unit was killed in the attack. Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said that at least two other people were wounded. In addition, the attack caused multiple fires and material damage.
The footage released by Hezbollah show the launch of dozens of Grad-type 122 mm and Falaq-1 240 mm rockets as well as a number of Ababil-2-type suicide drones. Both the Falaq-1 and Ababil-2 were developed in Iran.
In response to the attack, the IDF carried out several waves of strikes against targets of Hezbollah, including multiple rocket launchers, in southern Lebanon. The strikes claimed the lives of a single fighter of the group.
The rocket and drone attack was one of the largest launched by Hezbollah since the clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border broke out after the start of IDF operations in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October. Still, it was a very measured response to the assassination of Nasser, considering the vast capabilities of the group.
Hezbollah could have launched thousands of rockets, or even precision-guided ballistic missiles. The group could have also attempted to target Israeli warships or warplanes.
The IDF’s failure to cope with an attack of this scale raises serious questions about Israel’s readiness for a full-fledged war with Hezbollah, during which hundreds if not thousands of projectiles will be launched from Lebanon on a daily basis.
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hezbollah restraint comes at the cost of palestinian civilian lives – especially as only gaza resistance’s continuing resistance denies a serious zionist attack on hezbollah plus a crucial victory for netanyahu. as it is, restraint is allowing zionism to obliterate the means of existence in gaza. ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant
strikingly absent from the western media – given its focus on looting russian financial assets – is any discussion of the large financial reparations the zionist entity should make to gaza’s palestinians, not only for the genocidal acts committed over the last eight months, but also compensation for the decades of brutal oppression and recurrent violence.