Saturday, November 16, 2024

Hezbollah’s Khaybar operations hit strategic targets 145km inside occupied territories

By Alireza Akbari

On the 40th day of the martyrdom of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese resistance movement published a daily operational summary, accompanied by a detailed map.

The map this time, unlike in the past, showed a significant increase in the resistance movement's operations against the Zionist entity deep inside the occupied Palestinian territories.

Hezbollah’s operational command in a statement noted that despite intensive intelligence surveillance and constant activity by the Israeli air force, the resistance group significantly "escalated its qualitative operations within the framework of the Khaybar operations series."

These sophisticated operations included precise strikes on Israeli strategic and military centers, facilities and bases, reaching 145 km inside occupied Palestine, using various missiles and drones.

The statement emphasized that the Khaybar series of operations are guided by a well-defined strategy and proper management to ensure effective targeting as designated by the resistance leadership.

The recent operations came as the Israeli regime has failed to achieve its military objectives in the Gaza Strip for over 400 days while opening a new front in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli aggression against Lebanon included device detonations on September 17 and 18 and culminated in the assassination of top Hezbollah leaders Sayyed Nasrallah; Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of the group's executive council; and prominent commander Fuad Shukur.

Hezbollah responded with full might, The movement has executed 18 Khaybar operations in just the past two weeks, part of a larger series of 56 operations conducted since October when the Israeli occupation announced its "ground invasion" of the Arab country.

The Lebanese resistance movement also deployed precision surface-to-surface Fateh-110 and Jihad-2 missiles earlier this month, rendering Israeli assaults ineffective in undermining the group's will.

Following weeks of air raids, the regime's ground forces attempted to infiltrate the southern Lebanese border but faced heavy resistance from Hezbollah, failing to gain any foothold on Lebanese soil.

Since the Israeli regime launched its aggression against Beirut, Hezbollah has delivered significant strikes in retaliation. Notably, in mid-October, the Lebanese resistance executed an unprecedented drone attack on an Israeli training camp for the Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of occupied Haifa. 

This operation resulted in the deaths of dozens of Israeli soldiers and left over 100 others injured.

Less than a month after the attack on the Golani Brigade, Hezbollah executed a series of operations on November 8 and 9 within the occupied territories, targeting various locations, military bases, and Israeli army deployments, as well as settlements across several areas of occupied Palestine.

As part of the ‘Khaybar operations,’ Hezbollah focused on critical Israeli military installations, including the Haifa Technical Base, the MLM military factory, and the Ein Khozlot communications base.

On November 8, Hezbollah launched a barrage of precision missiles at the Haifa Technical Base, which serves the Israeli Air Force and houses a training school for Air Force technicians.

Haifa Technical Base

On the same day, the movement targeted the MLM military factory for the first time.

This facility, which is associated with Israeli air and missile defense systems, is located 132 km from the Lebanese-Palestinian border, south of Tel Aviv, and was struck by a barrage of precision missiles.

MLM military factory

The following day, Hezbollah launched its first aerial attack using a swarm of assault drones on the Ein Khozlot communications base, a military installation situated 55 km from the Lebanese-Palestinian border, south of Lake Tabariyya.

The attack was notable for its accuracy, successfully hitting designated targets.

Ein Khozlot communications base

Hezbollah also launched a series of attacks on several Israeli military sites, including the Zevulun military industries base north of occupied Haifa, as well as locations in occupied Safad, Kiryat Shmona, Avivim, Baram, Metulla, Al-Manara, Abad, Hatzor Haglilit, Rosh Pinna, Nahariyya, Maalot Tarshiha, the Krayot area, the Meron air operations management base, Katzrin, and HaGoshrim.

Additionally, Hezbollah's air defense units successfully downed an Israeli Hermes 450 drone with a surface-to-air missile over Deir Siryan.

These operations served as a reminder of the group’s reorganization following the assassination of the group’s top leaders and commanders, showing the indomitable resolve and conviction. 

“Recent weeks have proven that resistance formations have been able to structurally re-organize its units at all levels, as evidenced by the increased pace of missile and attack drone operations against various targets within the temporary entity, even reaching as far as Tel Aviv,” Hezbollah’s operation room noted in a statement.

The attacks on Israeli settlements followed Hezbollah's prior warnings to settlers to evacuate, declaring these areas as “military targets” due to the presence of the Israeli military's command and control centers, military barracks, factories, artillery positions, missile bases, and logistical support stations.

Through these operations, the Israeli regime experienced, for the first time, an extension of Hezbollah's operational reach to 145 km within the occupied territories.

With a swarm of attacks on military sites in occupied Haifa, Tabariyya, and Tel Aviv, Hezbollah demonstrated a significantly expanded circle of fire directed at the Israeli regime.

Following these operations, Hezbollah's operational command said that apart from achieving military objectives, the attacks forced "more than 2 million settlers" on an area of over 5,000 km² to seek shelter.

Hezbollah continued its operations over the weekend, targeting Israeli soldiers at Hassan Gate and HaGoshrim on Saturday, and striking a gathering of Israeli troops between the towns of Houla and Markaba, as well as the Shraga base north of the occupied city of Akka on Sunday.

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