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Hezbollah launches ‘squadrons of drones’ at Israel after Sidon attack
Hezbollah launched “squadrons of explosive-laden drones” at the Michve Alon base near the Galilee town of Safed “in response to the attack and assassination carried out by the Israeli enemy in the city of Sidon” on Friday, it said in a statement, AFP reported.
Hezbollah’s media office said it was “the first time” the group had targeted that base.
The movement said it hit the positions of Israeli officers and troopers at the outpost “with swarms of attack drones, striking them directly and inflicting confirmed
casualties.”
The retaliation came a day after an Israeli attack targeted a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, assassinating Samer al-Hajj, a field commander with al-Qassam Brigades, which is Hamas’ armed wing. The Palestinian resistance movement has acknowledged losing al-Hajj to “a treacherous Zionist strike.”
The Israeli regime has been conducting near-daily attacks against the southern parts of Lebanon since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on Gaza.
Hezbollah has been responding with strikes aimed both at retaliating against the regime and supporting the war-hit Gazans.
Announcing the Saturday strike, Hezbollah likewise underlined that it staged the reprisal “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance.”
The regime, which waged wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006, has, meanwhile, been repeatedly threatening to expand its attacks into another wholesale military onslaught against the country.
Hezbollah has vowed to defend the Lebanese soil with all its resources.