TEHRAN- In a series of drone, missile, and artillery attacks, Hezbollah has swiftly responded to Israeli attacks targeting civilians and the Lebanese Army.

The resistance in Lebanon says the operations also come in solidarity with the people of Gaza who have been facing a genocidal Israeli war for nearly ten months now.

In a statement, Hezbollah said it has launched an aerial attack using a squadron of precision combat drones against a newly established Israeli military site in the Hanita settlement.

The statement noted that the drones directly hit a gathering point for soldiers resulting in losses among “the enemy” including fatalities and injuries to Israeli troops.

The Lebanese resistance movement said it had targeted the Israeli Zar’it barracks with artillery shells. This came in response to the Israeli “aggression against Lebanon’s army” that left at least two Lebanese soldiers injured.

This came in response to the “enemy’s aggression” against residential areas in the towns of Adloun and Houla located in southern Lebanon.

Also in response to the “enemy’s agression” against the two towns, Hezbollah said it had used Grad rockets to target the Israeli “northern corps command headquarters at the Ein Zeitim base”. 

The resistance movement targeted the Dafna settlement with Katyusha rockets in response to Israeli occupation attacks that targeted civilians in Adloun, causing several injuries.

Hezbollah also said it had targeted the al-Summaqa as well as al-Ramtha military sites in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shouba Hills with rockets, achieving direct hits. 

The two operations took place within one hour.

It declared that the operations have been “in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza and in support of their resistance,” and part of the response to the occupation regime’s aggression, especially those targeting the towns of Adloun and Hula.

Hezbollah had previously vowed that “the response to any aggression against civilians would involve striking new settlements.”

Israeli media acknowledged the explosion of a Hezbollah drone in the Hanita settlement, while also noting the activation of warning sirens in several settlements in the north.

Meanwhile, Israeli attacks on southern Lebanese villages and towns are continuing, with the occupation regime’s artillery targeting a Lebanese army center on the outskirts of Maroun al-Ras village. Israeli warplanes also struck two other towns. An Israeli drone strike hit a third.

Earlier, the Lebanese Army reported that two soldiers were moderately injured after an Israeli attack hit a surveillance tower in the outskirts of Aalma El Chaab village in southern Lebanon.

In another publication, Hezbollah announced that three of its fighters have been “martyred on the path to al-Quds”.

And in a fresh statement on Monday, Hezbollah declared that “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and to back their valiant and honorable resistance, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted the Malkia site on July 22, 2024, with a surprise offensive.”

The statement went on to say that “this attack hit one of the bunkers, leading to the destruction of part of it and causing a fire to break out.”

Following Operation al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, Hezbollah entered the fray the next day on October 8 after the Israeli military waged its disproportionate assault on Gaza.

The tit-for-tat exchange of fire has expanded as the genocidal war on Gaza continues. Hezbollah has told foreign mediators it will halt fire as soon as the genocide in Gaza ends.