Click to see full-size image. By Al-Manar TV correspondent Ali Shoeib.
Hezbollah announced on March 29 that it had shelled the headquarters of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) 91st Division and the military site of Jal al-Alam in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in the Gaza Strip as well as in response to two recent waves of Israeli strikes that targeted the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the governorate of Aleppo.
In two separate statements, the Lebanese group said that its fighters fired two Burkan heavy improvised rockets at the 91st Division headquarters, which is located within the Pranit barracks, as well as a salvo of Falaq heavy rockets at the Jal al-Alam site and nearby troop gatherings right on the border with Lebanon.
The announcement marked the first time Hezbollah, a close ally of the Damascus government, has launched an attack from Lebanon in response to Israeli strikes that targeted Syrian territory during the ongoing confrontation with the IDF which broke out last October on the backdrop of the Israeli war on Gaza.
Five fighters of Hezbollah were among more than 40 military personnel and civilians who were reportedly killed in the Israeli strikes that targeted Aleppo in the early morning. A day earlier, several strikes hit the southern outskirts of Damascus, wounding two civilians.
Israel has significantly escalated its attacks against both Syria and Lebanon in recent days, mainly hitting targets linked to Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
On March 29, the IDF said that it eliminated the deputy commander of Hezbollah’s rocket unit in a drone strike in southern Lebanon.
The commander, identified as Ali Naim, was targeted while in a car in the town of Bazouriye, close to the city of Tyre in the morning.
According to the IDF, Naim is “considered to be a significant source of knowledge in the terror group, and leader in the field of rockets.”
“He was also one of the leaders for heavy-warhead rocket fire and responsible for conducting and planning attacks against Israeli civilians,” the IDF said in a statement.
Hezbollah acknowledged the death of Naim, saying in a statement that he was killed “on the road of Jerusalem”. This phrase is used by the group to describe those killed in the ongoing confrontation with the IDF. The statement didn’t describe Naim as a commander, however.
Recent Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon have failed to deter Hezbollah. In addition to the attacks on the IDF’s 91s Division headquarters and the Jal al-Alam site, the group fired two salvos of rockets at the Zabdin barracks and targeted gatherings of Israeli troops at Hadab Yaron and Hunen Castle along the border with Lebanon. In four separate statements, the group said these attacks were carried out in support of Gaza.
In addition, Hezbollah’s Military Media released video footage documenting a recent rocket attack on the northern Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona and a missile strike that targeted an IDF post in the border area of Harsh Ramim.
The clashes between Hezbollah and the IDF have so far resulted in eight civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least ten IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 300 people have been killed, including 246 fighters of Hezbollah -some of whom killed in strikes on Syria- and at least 60 civilians.
The Israeli escalation will certainly be met with a fierce response from Hezbollah and its allies. The confrontation on the Lebanese-Israeli border will not likely end before the war in Gaza is over.
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peace and safely in syria is lebanon/hezbollah interest, hezbollah fighters are in syria fighting “israel” pigs (wahhabis). hezbollah supporting their ally (syria) just how “israel” supporting their allies (fsa/hts/isis) in n-syria.
also, zionist defense minister: “we will expand the battle and increase the pace of attacks in the north”
hezbollah is responding to zionists and making a clear statement.
“the .org domain name had been blocked by the us (nato)”
one, just imagine how shit the us/nato/zionist propaganda is for them to block other sites (they are banning tiktok lmfao). two, again we all know some bots here and i can tell you most of them are zionist forsakens.
well said, they get their ass whacked real good. just check the size of that smoke. and zionist hide their losses, because they’re affraid to shame.
the zio trash deliberately kill civilians to put pressure on their opponents and thats what hezbollah also should do with the jews but the problem is that for real muslims its not allowed to kill civilians .
that means those in idlib province in syria are not.
those al-kaida and isis scums have nothing to do with islam their god is money
yes, that means exactly that. wahhabis are not muslims.
the takfiris are heretics.
russo-polando-ukrainian jews are not civilians. they are terrorists. the jewish shiksas were seen laying their eggs everywhere in occupied palestine.
these parasites are armed terrorist invaders and should be dealt with as such. every jewish terrorist is a target. europe must do the same.
how embarrassing when a quasi-independent militia in another country does more than your own military when your country is bombed endlessly.
or you could look at it this way, this is a proxy war between iran (hezbollah, syria, houthis, iraq) and the us (“israel”, isis, hts, fsa, pkk, etc)…
or you could say the same thing about russia… there are nato soldiers fighting against russia in ukraine, most weapons that ukraine use against russia are nato weapons, etc etc you get the picture.
i don’t think most people say it is “embarrassing”.
3 us soldiers were killed in jordan and what the us did? attacked iraq… and at the same time blame iran for it… they also said they going to bomb iraqi groups in massive waves… what happened with that bs claim? wouldn’t you say that was embarrassing?
the us is not in syria’s position, as matter of fact far from it… i disagree with your statement. don’t worry “israel” been around for 76 years lol.
the government i live under is embarrassing. it’s embarrassing to be born on this filthy planet, at all. they aren’t my government but a pack of pedophiles and their enablers. i live my life as if they aren’t there and ignore their oppressive rules when i want, guided by my own compass not some pedophiles and retards. if they mess with me in person, i will kill them. the 1776 government is long dead and buried.
so why are you still here, shitskin? why are you not in the glorious shithole called palestine 😂😂😂
because i know the terrain here better than anyone alive and the fight will be coming.;-) there are many many places in the hills and woods and ravines. i know what wildlife in the woods sound like, and the footsteps of people crunching on twigs. palestinians don’t need my rifle, they’re already kicking the israelis asses so that they have to bomb civilians and starve millions of people. why don’t you ask your intel friends about me and come on over?
hezbollah and us have secretly signed a pact that hezbollah will refrain from invading israel. this border rocket firing is some bullshit acting by hezbollah. they deserve an academy award for pretending.
everyone is waiting for al-aqsa to be demolished for another series of satanic rituals in the middle east, as if starving, murdering and torturing tens of thousands of palestinian civilians (mostly women and children) wasn’t enough. basically all the world’s relgions as practiced today are satanic mind control. it shows something important about the people who made them what they are, and the ones who go along with all of it.
anyone still remembers the “iron dome”?
why is hezbollah firing rockets only at border targets? why don’t they invade israel? i’ll tell you why – they have been bought off by the americans and told not to invade israel. the hamas members killed in lebanon had their location given to the israelis by hezbollah. its a dirty war