Marjayoun, South Lebanon, December 16, 2023 (Xinhua) – Lebanese Hezbollah announced today (Saturday) that its military wing, the “Islamic Resistance,” has carried out 509 military operations from last October 7 until December 14 of this year against Israeli positions and gatherings along the border line facing the Lebanese side.
The party said in a statement that the military operations targeted 58 military sites and barracks, noting that the type of weapons used in the operations were 209 operations with guided missiles, 131 operations with artillery shells, 48 operations with soldier sniping, 43 operations with rocket launchers, 35 operations with Burkan missiles, 20 air defense launching operations, and 14 operations with weapons. Direct and 9 offensive operations with marches.
In this context, the “Islamic Resistance” announced in several statements it issued that today its members carried out a series of attacks with “appropriate weapons” on several Israeli sites, including “a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers in the Ramim forest, a group of soldiers inside two houses in the Al-Manara settlement, and a mechanized force in the Metulla settlement.” And a drone attack on a gathering in the Ramim barracks and an infantry force in the vicinity of the Risha site, causing confirmed casualties.”
Today, Hezbollah mourned one of its members, and said in a statement issued by it that he “rose as a martyr on the road to Jerusalem,” without any additional details.
A Lebanese military source told Xinhua News Agency, “Israeli marches and warplanes carried out a series of raids on many villages and their outskirts, including 3 raids on Jabal Balat in the western sector of southern Lebanon, and 3 raids on the outskirts of Kafr Shuba, Kafr Hamam, and Mays al-Jabal, east of southern Lebanon.” .
The sources said, “Israeli heavy artillery bombed with about 120 shells the villages of Hula, Markab, Mays al-Jabal, Khiam, Al-Adisa, Al-Hamams, Wadi Al-Hujair, Bastra, Kafr Shuba, and Deir Saryan in the eastern sector, in addition to the villages of Naqoura, Al-Abbasiya, and Yaroun in the western sector, and the villages of Bara’shit, Aita Al-Shaab, Maroun Al-Ras, Al-Tiri, Khirbet Salam, and Yater in the sector.” Middle East, which led to the destruction of 4 homes and damage to 25 others.”
The same sources also said that “a batch of 10 missiles was launched from Lebanon towards the Israeli settlements on the border line with Lebanon and was intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome, where several missiles exploded in the airspace of the villages of the central sector of southern Lebanon.”
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that warplanes raided a series of Hezbollah targets, including military buildings, launching sites, and “terrorist” infrastructure.
The army spokesman for the Arab media, Avichay Adraee, said in a statement on his website on the (X) platform, “In recent hours, several missile launches were monitored from Lebanon towards Israel, and the IDF responded with artillery shelling towards areas in Lebanon.”
The confrontations on the Lebanese side since last October 8 led to the killing of 156 people, including 108 members of Hezbollah, a member of the Lebanese Army, a member of the Amal Movement, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, 16 members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad in Lebanon, and 29 civilians, including 3. Journalists, according to party statements and security and medical reports.
With the exception of seven days of cautious calm against the backdrop of a truce in the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese-Israeli border areas have witnessed daily bombing and shooting operations between Hezbollah and armed Palestinian movements on the one hand and the Israeli army on the other since the outbreak of war between Hamas and the Israeli army on October 7. the past.
2023-12-17 01:20:45
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