Battlefield Has the Final Say: Hezbollah Responds with Fire, Strikes Tel Aviv
As the indirect talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire in Lebanon are underway on Tuesday, Hezbollah went ahead to record epic battles and game-changing missile strikes against the Zionist entity, sending clear message that the fire is met with fire and that the battlefield has the final say.
The Lebanese resistance group shot down a new Israeli drone on Tuesday, as it struck the occupied Israeli cities of Tel Aviv, Safed and Karmiel and kept up its rocket attacks against Israeli forces across the border between Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israeli occupation army announced on Tuesday the death of a soldier and the injury of three others. It noted that the four were from Golani Brigade and that they were hit by an explosive-laden drone launched by Hezbollah during a logistics supply operation in southern Lebanon.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, Israeli media reported at least five casualties, one in Karmiel and the other four in the Zionist entity’s center, without giving the exact location.
Tuesday’s operations came a day after Hezbollah staged a missile strike targeting Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, inflicting heavy damage in the central city.
Operations
Hezbollah’s Military Media announced 19 operations so far on Tuesday, stressing that they are “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in backing their honorable and valiant resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people.”
The first statement mentioned that the Islamic Resistance fighters downed an Israeli Hermes 450 drone over the Lebanese border town of Taybe at 10:00 PM on Monday. It added that the fighters shot down the UAV employing a surface-to-air missile and that it was seen bursting into flames while falling.
At 12:15 AM on Tuesday, Hezbollah fighters fired a barrage of rockets targeting the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona, according to the second statement.
The Islamic Resistance fighters targeted, at 10:20 AM on Tuesday, a training base for the Israeli occupation army’s Paratroopers Brigade in the Karmiel settlement with a rocket barrage, the third statement read.
At 10:00 AM, Hezbollah fighters pounded the occupied city of Safed with a salvo of rockets, according to the fourth statement.
Between 10:00 and 11:00 AM, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Israeli gatherings in Menara, Kfar Blum and Avivim settlements with salvos of rockets, the fifth, sixth and seventh statements read.
The eighth and ninth statement declared two drones strikes on Ramat David airbase and Beit Lid military base, noting that the attacks were part of Khaybar operations series and with the call of the call of “Labbaik Ya Nasrallah” (at your service O Nasrallah).
“The Islamic Resistance fighters carried out an aerial operation at 6:45 am on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, with a squadron of assault drones on the Ramat David airbase (a major northern airbase housing combat squadrons) located 50 km away from the Lebanese-Palestinian borders, southeast of the occupied city of Haifa, hitting its targets precisely,” the eighth statement read.
At 2:00 PM, Hezbollah fighters fired barrages of rockets targeting a gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the settlements of Al-Malkiyeh and Sa’sa’ (for the second time), the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth statements read.
The twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh statements mentioned that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Israeli gatherings in Ramim (Hounin) barracks and in the southern outskirts of Maroun Al-Ras with salvos of rockets at 2:40 PM and 3:00 PM on Tuesday.
At 3:30 PM on Tuesday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers north of Maroun Al-Ras with a salvo of rockets, according to the twenty-eighth statement.
Source: Al-Manar English Website