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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Hezbollah retains ‘Fire for Fire’ strategy; takes Tel Aviv under ballistic missile barrage</h1>
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
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<font size="1">Fire is seen burning in the city of Tel Aviv in the occupied Palestinian
territories following a Hezbollah operation against the city on
November 18, 2024.</font>
<p><strong>The Lebanese resistance movement
Hezbollah keeps employing its “Fire for Fire, Beirut for Tel Aviv”
defensive strategy in the face of the Israeli regime’s intensified
deadly aggression against Lebanon.</strong></p>
<p>On Monday, the movement targeted Tel Aviv in the occupied Palestinian
territories with several strikes, indicating that it would not buckle
under the regime’s policy of escalating its deadly attacks on civilians
in Lebanon to pressure the resistance into accepting its terms, various
resistance media outlets reported.</p>
<p>It brought the city under salvos of ballistic missiles, at least
eight rockets, and drones, wounding at least five settlers, one of whom
sustained serious injuries.</p>
<p>Footage emanating from the operation showed Israeli missile systems
failing to intercept one of the missiles that made direct impact
reportedly near a mall in the city, according to the regime’s Channel
12.</p>
<p>Israeli police sources confirmed that the operation had resulted in
“a direct hit,” adding, “There are fears of building collapses.”</p>
<p>The Israeli casualties were caused in the city of Ramat Gan, east of
Tel Aviv, after four explosions rang out in the targeted area.</p>
<p>A building and a bus were also hit and a fire broke out in the city of Bnei Brak, which is likewise located east of Tel Aviv.</p>
<p>A picture emerged showing the moments that ran up to one of Hezbollah’s missile operations against Tel Aviv and its aftermath.</p>
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<p>Other Israeli sources reported that the operations had resulted in
the closure of Ben Gurion, the regime’s busiest airport, which is
located in the central part of the occupied territories, adding that
power outages had also been reported in some areas of “Greater Tel
Aviv.”</p>
<p>Describing one of the operations, Hezbollah said its fighters had
targeted the Tel Haim base that belongs to the Israeli regime’s Military
Intelligence Division in Tel Aviv with a missile barrage and a drone
squadron.</p>
<p>The projectiles and the aircraft “hit their targets accurately,” the movement added.</p>
<p>The group also targeted the Krayot area, north of the city of Haifa,
with a rocket barrage, and launched an aerial attack with a squadron of
attack drones on the Regavim base, a military base containing training
camps for the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade, southeast of Haifa.</p>
<p>The operations, which came as part of the movement’s Khaybar series
of operations, were conducted under the slogan, "We are at your service O
Nasrallah," a reference to Hezbollah’s former secretary general, who
was assassinated during intense Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon’s
capital Beirut in late September.</p>
<p>The retaliation was also meant as a show of “support for our
steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their
valiant and honorable resistance,” besides serving to defend Lebanon in
the face of the regime’s deadly escalation, the group said.</p>
<p>Hezbollah has been conducting hundreds of such operations against the
northern side of the occupied territories since last October, when the
regime began launching a genocidal war on Gaza and brought Lebanon under
intensified deadly aggression.</p>
<p>The brutal military onslaught and the aggression have respectively
claimed the lives of more than 43,900 Palestinians, mostly women and
children, and upwards of 3,510 Lebanese people.</p>
<p>Also on Monday, Hezbollah’s fighters targeted the Shraga base, the
administrative headquarters of the Golani Brigade Command, north of the
city of Akka, on two occasions with a rocket barrage.</p>
<p>They launched an airstrikes using drones on a gathering of Israeli
forces at the newly established headquarters of the Israeli military’s
Western Brigade Command at the Ya'ara Barracks.</p>
<p>Israeli media outlets reported affliction of “extensive damage” by
Hezbollah’s rockets on the illegal settlement of Kiryat Shmona, noting
that the settlement "awaits a long reconstruction. It needs to be
rebuilt due to the destruction it suffered as a result of Hezbollah
missiles."</p>
<p>The head of Margaliot Council in the northern occupied territories
described the area as “dangerous,” saying the illegal Israeli settlers,
who had left the area as well as other areas across the northern side
amid Hezbollah’s reprisal, had not been able to return to their settler
units for more than a year.</p>
<p>At the same time, the movement released another video showing its
targeting the Stella Maris Base and the headquarters of the regime’s
elite Shayetet 13 Naval Commando Unit with Fajr-3 rockets and advanced
attack drones earlier this month.</p>
<p>Continuing their reprisal on Tuesday, Hezbollah’s fighters targeted
an advanced Israeli Hermes 450 drone in the skies of the town of Taybeh
in southern Lebanon with a surface-to-air missile, shooting the aircraft
down.</p>
<p>Ori Misghif, a journalist with the regime’s <em>Ha’aretz </em>newspaper,
meanwhile, recounted attending the funeral of Israeli Warrant Officer
Guy Idan of the Israeli military’s Battalion 89 of the 8th Armored
Division, who was killed in Lebanon, while trying to advance Tel Aviv’s
military agenda against the country.</p>
<p>He denounced the regime for sustaining its aggression against Gaza
and Lebanon at the cost of the Israeli forces’ lives, and refusing to
treat the troops, whether alive or dead, with sufficient respect,</p>
<p>“Notably absent from the burial ceremony was a representative from
the [Israeli] government of blood and destruction. In less than 24
hours, ten reserve soldiers were killed in Lebanon," Misghif said.</p>
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