TEHRAN- Lebanon’s Hezbollah has responded to an Israeli assault on the Bekaa region by targeting the Israeli military barracks with more than 100 rockets.

In its first operation of the day on Tuesday the Lebanese resistance announced it had bombarded the Israeli Golan Division’s command center at the Nafah base, and the artillery regiment and armored brigade of the 210 Golan Division at the Yarden base, with intense rocket fire. 

The salvos of rocket fire also led to fires breaking out in some areas of the northern Israeli-occupied Galilee. 

The Lebanese resistance confirmed that its initial operations were in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza, back their resistance against invaders, and as a response to the Israeli aggression against the Bekaa region.

In a second statement published by Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance movement stated that it targeted the Israeli “Branit barracks with appropriate weapons, confirming a direct hit”.

Reports have confirmed that rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Israeli-occupied Galilee and the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. 

In a third statement published later on Tuesday, Hezbollah declared:

“In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in solidarity with their brave and honorable resistance, and in response to the assassination carried out by the Israeli enemy in the town of Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain, Islamic resistance fighters on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, targeted the 146th Brigade headquarters in Jattun with volleys of Katyusha rockets.”

Experts have pointed out that Hezbollah is staging sophisticated attacks, backed by intelligence gathering, against the Israeli military in a manner that is confusing the regime’s Iron Dome system. 

The Israeli occupation army admitted to fires breaking out in the Israeli settlement of Gadot settlement in northern occupied Golan as a result of falling rockets, noting that firefighting teams are working to extinguish the fires.

Israeli media also acknowledged that around 100 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the Hula Valley and the Golan.

Hebrew media reported that several explosions were heard in the Upper Galilee, as well as sirens sounding in Ortal in northern Golan and in the settlements of Gadot and the Hula Valley. 

“Following the attacks in Lebanon, residents of the settlements of Gaton, Yehiam, Ein Ya’akov, Manot and Mitzpe Hila in the Western Galilee were instructed to stay near fortified places,” Israeli media added. 

In the Upper Galilee, the Israeli army requested that settlers still in “Kiryat Shmona” stay near protected areas, and the Upper Galilee Council stated that it “informed residents of evacuated settlements to stay close to protected areas.” 

The majority of Israelis in the north have evacuated their settlements with estimates varying from 75,000 to 300,000 Israelis fleeing.

On Monday, the Israeli military acknowledged that drones from southern Lebanon evaded all of the regime’s missile interceptor systems and killed an Israeli soldier. Another soldier sustained serious injuries. 

Israeli firefighting teams have also been reportedly working throughout the night to put out flames in the north “ignited by exploding drones”. 

Since October 8, one day after the Operation al-Aqsa Storm in Gaza, Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire on a daily basis. 

After nearly 320 days, Hezbollah has repeatedly informed foreign mediators that it will cease fire once the U.S.-backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza comes to an end.