Hezbollah Steps Up Strikes on Israeli Settlements, Successfully Downs Hermes 450 UAV

Hezbollah launched on Saturday coordinated operations in steadfast support of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and in defense of Lebanese territories and people. The group’s Military Media reported rocket attacks and drone strikes targeting strategic locations in the occupied territories, as well as against Israeli occupation forces. Additionally, Hezbollah fighters successfully downed an Israeli Hermes-450 UAV in Lebanese airspace, underscoring their commitment to countering the Israeli threat.

Meanwhile, Zionist officials, including Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, have called for settlers’ return by year-end, but Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avihai Stern stated the process is still far off. Israeli Channel 12 also noted that even after the conflict, the Israeli occupation entity cannot guarantee the absence of rocket fire from Lebanon.

Hezbollah’s military media released a series of statements detailing the attacks and their outcomes:

The initial statement indicated that at 9:00 AM on Saturday, November 9, 2024, Islamic Resistance fighters launched a rocket salvo at the Zevulun military industries base north of Haifa.

The second statement declared that at midnight on Saturday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the occupied city of Safed with a barrage of rockets.

Hezbollah’s third statement indicated that at 7:30 AM, the group’s fighters accurately targeted the Kiryat Shmona settlement with a rocket salvo.

Simultaneously at 11:30 AM on Saturday, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli occupation forces in both the Al-Manara settlement and the Al-Abbad site, as per the group’s fourth and fifth statements.

According to the sixth statement, at 8:00 AM, Hezbollah’s Air Defense Unit shot down a Hermes 450 UAV with a surface-to-air missile, causing it to crash in the town of Deir Siryan. Subsequently, enemy warplanes conducted a raid on the wreckage.

At 12:45 PM, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the settlement of Bar’am with a rocket salvo, the group’s seventh statement read.

Hezbollah’s eighth statement mentioned that at 1:30 PM, the group’s fighters targeted the settlement of Ma’alot-Tarshiha with a rocket salvo.

In line with the warning issued to several northern settlements, Islamic Resistance fighters launched a rocket salvo at the Nahariyya settlement at 12:45 PM on Saturday, the ninth statement read.

The targeting of Nahariyya and Ma’alot-Tarshiha follows Hezbollah’s announcement that occupied cities and settlements in northern areas will be directly attacked, urging settlers to evacuate the region.

Hezbollah’s Military Media tenth statement stated that at 2:00 PM on Saturday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Krayot area, north of the occupied city of Haifa, with a barrage of rockets.

Simultaneously, at 2:00 PM, Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Ma’alot-Tarshiha settlement for the second time on Saturday with a rocket salvo.

Hezbollah’s twelfth statement declared that at 3:05 PM today, the group’s fighters targeted the Meron Air Operations Command base with a missile barrage.

The Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of “Israeli” enemy forces in Al-Metulla settlement with a missile barrage at 03:25 pm on Saturday, according to the thirteenth statement.

The fourteenth statement maintained that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the occupied city of Safad for the second time with a missile barrage at 3:30 pm today.

The fifteenth statement affirmed that that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Kiryat Shmona settlement with a missile barrage at 12:30 pm today.

At 4:00 pm on Saturday, the Islamic Resistance targeted Katzrin settlement with a missile barrage, the sixteenth statement read.

The seventeenth statement pointed out that the Islamic Resistance bombarded Hatzor HaGlilit settlement with a missile barrage at 11:30 on Saturday.

 

The seventeenth statement pointed out that the Islamic Resistance bombarded Hatzor HaGlilit settlement with a missile barrage at 11:30 on Saturday.

The Islamic Resistance targeted Rosh Pina settlement with a missile barrage, at 11:30 on Saturday, according to the eighteenth statement.

According to the nineteenth statement, the Islamic Resistance targeted an IOF gathering in Avivim settlement with a missile barrage at 11:00 on Saturday.

The twentieth statement announced that, in defense of Lebanon and its people, and within the framework of the Khaibar operations series, and in response to the assaults and massacres committed by the “Israeli” enemy, and in answer to the call of “Labbeik ya Nasrallah” [Here I am, at your service O Nasrallah], the Islamic Resistance targeted the Haifa Technical Base (a base belonging to the “Israeli” Air Force, containing a training college for preparing air force technicians) in occupied Haifa with a missile barrage on Friday, November 8, 2024.

The twenty-first statement mentioned that, in defense of Lebanon and its people, and within the framework of the Khaibar operations series, and in response to the assaults and massacres committed by the “Israeli” enemy, and in answer to the call of “Labbeik ya Nasrallah” [Here I am, at your service O Nasrallah], the Islamic Resistance targeted  for the first time the military industry factory of Malam in southern Tel Aviv (132 kilometers away from Lebanon border) with a barrage of precision missiles on Friday, November 8, 2024.

According to the twenty-second statement, the Islamic Resistance fired missile barrages at Israeli artillery bunkers in HaGoshrim, Galilee Panhandle, assaulting South Lebanon villages and cities with cluster shells at 05:45 on Saturday, November 9, 2024.

The twenty-third statement affirmed in defense of Lebanon and its people, and within the framework of the Khaibar operations series, and in response to the assaults and massacres committed by the “Israeli” enemy, and in answer to the call of “Labbeik ya Nasrallah” [Here I am, at your service O Nasrallah], the Islamic Resistance targeted the Haifa Technical Base (a base belonging to the “Israeli” Air Force, containing a training college for preparing air force technicians) in occupied Haifa with a missile barrage on Saturday, November 8, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.

 

According to the twenty-fourth statement, the Islamic Resistance launched on Saturday, November 9, 2024, at 6:40 pm, an aerial attack with a squadron of combat drones at an IOF gathering in east of Maroun Al-Ras town, hitting the targets accurately.

Video| Hezbollah targets Israeli occupation forces gathered in the settlement of Misgav Am and the vicinity of the town of Maroun Al-Ras on the southern border

 

Source: Hezbollah Military Media