Lebanese Shiite Shiite group Hezbollah and the pro-Iranian Shiite militia formation Islamic Resistance in Iraq have claimed responsibility for eight attacks on Friday with “barrages” of shells and drones against northern Israel.
The Lebanese group has claimed that it has attacked Israeli military positions with “barrages of qualitative missiles”. in the Haifa areain the north of the Jewish State.
He has also indicated that the targets attacked are “the ‘Stella Maris’ naval base in northwest Haifa” and “the Ramat David base and airport” in the southeast of that area.
Hezbollah has also taken on additional artillery rocket attacks and “a guided missile.” against “concentrations of Israeli enemy army troops” in the towns of Adisa and Kafr Kila, on the other side of the Lebanese-Israeli border. It also claimed that it targeted the settlement of Kiryat Shmona with shells.
For their part, pro-Iranian Iraqi militias have claimed to have attacked on three occasions “a military target in the north of the occupied territories (Israel) with unmanned aircraft“.
Hezbollah reiterates attack in support of Palestine.
Both Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which are part of the so-called Iranian-backed anti-Israeli “Axis of Resistance,” have reiterated that their actions are “in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza and their noble resistance, and in response to the aggressions and massacres being committed by the Israeli enemy“.
Israeli aircraft continued Friday its bombing raids on several localities in Nabatieh and Sidon, southern Lebanon, with no casualties reported so faraccording to the Lebanese national news agency, NNA.
More than 3,100 people have been killed in Lebanon since the start of the exchange of crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah in October 2023. Most of these casualties were recorded following the start on September 23 of the intensive Israeli bombing campaign against southern and eastern Lebanon, which also displaced 1.2 million people..