Hezbollah strikes key Israeli military sites, settlements in Palestine VIDEO

On November 20, Hezbollah, the Lebanese Islamic para-military group, launched a series of attacks on multiple Israeli military sites and settlements in northern Palestine.

These included rocket barrages, artillery fire, and drone strikes targeting key locations such as logistical bases, the Shraga base (home to the Golani Brigade), and settlements like Safad, Shtula, Avivim, and Kfar Vradim. The resistance also struck Israeli drones and armoured tanks, Caliber.Az reports, citing foreign media.

The operations were mainly concentrated along the Lebanese border, particularly around the towns of Khiam and Maroun al-Ras, where Israeli forces have been trying to make advances. 

The operations indicate a multi-pronged strategy of direct attacks on the Israeli military infrastructure, including bases, logistical hubs, and personnel groupings, through a combination of rockets, artillery, and drones.

The Islamic Resistance in #Lebanon published a video of rocket and drone launches in a hybrid operation, wherein it struck the Tel Haim base in Tel Aviv and the Beit Lid base east of Netanya. pic.twitter.com/dXEcXKD0Jj

— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 20, 2024

The combination of rockets, artillery, and drones aims to weaken Israeli forces, forcing them to stay on the defensive. Reports suggest that some Israeli tanks and drones were destroyed. 

Hezbollah's statements emphasized that the operations are carried out in solidarity with the resistance in Gaza and in defence of Lebanon and its people.

The ongoing conflict, which erupted on October 7, 2023, was triggered by a large-scale Hamas-led assault that claimed the lives of 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel. The attack also resulted in the abduction of 251 individuals, taken as hostages to Gaza. The IDF states that 97 of these hostages remain in captivity, alongside four others who have been held for over a decade.

Since then, Israel's military operations in Gaza have reportedly killed nearly 43,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry. The ongoing violence has displaced almost all of Gaza's 2.3 million residents and has led to a severe hunger crisis, with allegations of genocide against Israel presented at the World Court—allegations that Israel has firmly denied.

Meanwhile in Lebanon, the conflict has killed more than 3,500 people, forced more than one million from their homes, Lebanese authorities say. It has also caused an estimated $8.5 billion (£6.7 billion) in economic damages and losses, according to the World Bank.

By Khagan Isayev