[News] In initial response, Hezbollah hits Israeli intel HQ with 62 rockets

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In initial response, Hezbollah hits Israeli intel HQ with 62 rockets
Al Mayadeen English
January 6, 2024
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The Lebanese Islamic Resistance's operation comes as an initial response to
the assassination of martyr Saleh al-Arouri and his martyred brothers.
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   - Hezbollah fighters hold the Resistance's flags and Lebanese flags, as
   they perform during a rally marking the ninth anniversary of the July 2006
   victory, in Wadi al-Hujair, South Lebanon, on August 14, 2015. *(AP)*

The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah targeted at 7:50 am one of
two Israeli occupation forces' Air Traffic Control Base in northern
occupied Palestine, with a barrage of 62 rockets, as an initial response to
the assassination of Palestinian Resistance leader, martyr Sheikh Saleh
al-Arouri, and his brothers in the Southern Suburb of Beirut.

A statement released by the Resistance said its fighters accurately and
successfully targeted the air control base located atop Mount Jarmaq
("Meron"), which constitutes the highest peak in the '48 occupied Palestine.

The attack was launched at exactly 7:50 am (local time) on Saturday
morning, targeting the sole center for the management and monitoring of air
traffic in northern occupied territories, the "Meron" Air Traffic Control
Base. Hezbollah added that the occupation possesses no equivalent
alternative to the bombarded facility.

The "Meron" Airbase organizes, coordinates, and manages all Air Force
operations in the direction of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Cyprus, as well
as the northern areas of the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea. The
base is also a main center for Israeli electronic warfare in the
aforementioned directions, and it houses elite Israeli officers and
soldiers.

Later, as part of the Resistance group's ongoing operations in support of
Gaza, the Resistance fighters targeted the "Metulla" site and a gathering
of Israeli occupation soldiers in the vicinity of the Hounin Barracks with
appropriate weapons at 9:40 am and 9:55 am respectively, confirming direct
hits in both.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah mourned its martyr Mustafa Hassan Saad - Abu Hassan
Nour - originating from Bint Jbeil and a resident of the town of Burj
al-Shamali in southern Lebanon, who rose as a martyr on the path to al-Quds.
Swift, calculated response

The Resistance faction's swift and calculated response to "Israel's"
assassination of Hamas' Deputy Political Bureau Chief in the Southern
Suburb of Beirut has been anticipated by supporters of the Axis of
Resistance. Hezbollah sticks to its pledge promising further operations in
a broader response to the horrific Israeli crime.

Speaking on two different occasions, on Wednesday and Friday, the Secretary
General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, reiterated the Resistance's
commitment to response to the "flagrant and dangerous violation," which he
confirmed "will not go unanswered
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."

*Read more: War with Hezbollah to be without constraints: Sayyed Nasrallah
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/war-on-lebanon-to-be-without-limits--extremly-costly--sayyed>*

Indeed, Hezbollah's initial unprecedented attack on the Air Traffic Control
Base marks a first, in terms of the Resistance's confrontation with the
Israeli occupation, hitting an integral and sensitive site of the Israeli
Air Force. The only other Israeli Air Force Traffic Control Base is located
around 250 km to the south, in al-Naqab Desert, dubbed "Mitzpe Ramon"
Airbase, as revealed in the statement.

Importantly, Saturday's statement stressed that the operation was only an
initial response to the martyr al-Arouri's assassination, promising further
actions against the occupation. Sayyed Nasrallah had underlined the impact
of the treacherous assassination on the military, security, and political
level, stressing the significance of the site of the aggression, the
Southern Suburb of Beirut.

In this context, the Lebanese Resistance leader emphasized that an
encompassing response would be spurred by the assassination and the
flagrant security violation in the Southern Suburb, which had not
experienced an Israeli strike since 2006.
Sirens go off all over northern Palestine

Earlier on Saturday, *Al Mayadeen*'s correspondent reported that a large
salvo of rockets was launched from Lebanon toward the occupied upper
al-Jalil, indicating that emergency sirens went off
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across all northern occupied territories.

Our correspondent also revealed that the rocket attack consisted of
different types of rockets, as was later confirmed in Hezbollah's statement.

Israeli media outlets confirmed that drones and rockets were launched from
Lebanon targeting an intelligence site of the Israeli military in "Meron".
Alarm sirens sounded in more than 90 settlements in the region, the *Israeli
Army Radio *announced.

Simultaneously, our correspondent in South Lebanon reported that the
occupation launched an airstrike targeting the town of Ayta al-Shaab and a
drone struck the outskirts of the town of Yaroun.

He also mentioned that Israeli artillery shelled the western outskirts of
the towns of al-Teereh and Rsheif, in addition to empty areas between Blida
and Aitaroun.

*Read next: Who is Saleh al-Arouri; Hamas Resistance leader killed by
'Israel'?
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/who-is-saleh-al-arouri--hamas-resistance-leader-killed-by--i>*
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