TEHRAN- Lebanon’s Hezbollah has announced that it has, for the first time, bombarded the base and headquarters of the Israeli military’s 282nd Artillery and Precision Missile Brigade with dozens of Katyusha rockets.

The Lebanese resistance movement also said in a statement published on Saturday that its fighters targeted the Israeli military’s 282nd armament and emergency warehouses in Yiftah Eliphalet, northwest of Lake Tabaraya (the sea of Galilee), in the same operation, as well. 

Hezbollah has declared that its latest operation ‘’is in support of Gaza and in response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks on the steadfast southern villages and safe homes, especially in the town of Kfar Rumman’’. 

Base 282 is located about 18 kilometers from the Lebanese border and is integrated with the Israeli military’s Northern Command. 

According to Hezbollah’s statement, this Israeli base, which has been targeted for the first time, is home to precision weapons and missiles, a reserve division command headquarters, and an advanced armament center.

Israeli media has acknowledged that Hezbollah is expanding its operations towards ‘’the sea of Galilee’’.

Media reports have said that "intensive volleys of rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the depths of the Upper Galilee."

Hezbollah’s statement also noted that this operation came ‘’in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in solidarity with their brave and honorable resistance’’.

Hezbollah issued a separate statement which announced the targeting of the Israeli occupation army’s reserve headquarters of the northern corps, the reserve station of the Galilee division, and its logistical depots in Ami'ad with dozens of Katyusha rockets.

In another operation carried out on Saturday, an Israeli Merkava tank was ‘’destroyed’’ on the road connecting Ruwaisat al-Alam in the Israeli-occupied Kafr Shuba hills near Sheba’a Farms to Zabdin in the Israeli-occupied Golan.

The tank was set on fire after it was struck by a guided missile.

Israeli media reported that ‘’55 rockets had been launched from Lebanon towards the Upper Galilee’’ on Saturday morning, reporting that sirens were repeatedly heard in several northern settlements, including Avivim.

On the expansion of Hezbollah's operations, one Hebrew news media outlet asked ‘’Has Safed also become part of Israel’s conflict zone? What is the next city? Tiberias or Haifa?’’

Israeli media also pointed out that ‘’Hezbollah continues to expand the range of fire in the north, focusing on Safed, the Tiberias area, and Rosh Pina’’.

Reports of continued efforts to extinguish fires that broke out around Ami'ad near Tiberias as a result of rockets launched from Lebanon have also circulated in the Israeli press. 

Hezbollah has been exchanging fire on a daily basis with the Israeli military since October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas launched the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation.

The southern Lebanese resistance has repeatedly informed mediators that it will only halt fire once there is a ceasefire in Gaza.    

There have been casualties on both sides as well as tens of thousands of people displaced in southern Lebanon and an estimated 100,000 on the Israeli side. 

Analysts say the number of displaced on the Israeli side is 300,000.

Experts have pointed out that Hezbollah has been transparent in announcing the names of both the fighters it has lost and the civilians that have been killed by Israeli strikes. 

This is while critics have accused Tel Aviv of hiding the real number of its casualties on the northern front.