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.
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.
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.
Press TV