TEHRAN- Hezbollah has continued its qualitative operations against the occupying regime, expanding its range of fire in northern Israel.

Hezbollah fighters targeted Krayot north of Haifa with a barrage of rockets. The fighters also launched a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Safed.

A gathering of Israeli occupation vehicles and soldiers was targeted in Sasa in the Upper Galilee with a heavy Borkan rocket.

The Lebanese resistance targeted the Israeli occupation’s artillery positions south of Kiryat Shmona with a salvo of rockets.

Following that Hezbollah announced it had targeted the Ilaniya base with a salvo of rockets.

The resistance went on to target the Ruwaisat al-Alam site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills with artillery shells, achieving a direct hit against Israeli forces. 

Hezbollah then struck a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Kiryat Shmona with a salvo of rockets.

The Lebanese resistance launched a heavy rocket barrage at the city of Karmiel in addition to other cities in northern Israel. 

Hebrew media reported sirens and explosions being heard in Hanita, Haifa, Krayot, Acre, and Nahariya as Israeli missile interceptor systems failed to target all the incoming rockets. 

Commenting on the rocket salvo from Lebanon and Israeli attempts to intercept it, Israeli media stated that there was “chaos in the skies over Haifa and Krayot.”

Sirens also went off in Caesarea, located between Tel Aviv and Haifa north of Hadera for the first time. The Israeli Walla website reported that Prime Minister Netanyahu was at his home in Caesarea “when sirens sounded, prompting him to rush to the shelters”. 

An Israeli media platform mentioned an attempt to target a gas platform and a power station in Caesarea, while Israeli media confirmed a direct hit in Kiryat Shmona from rockets fired from Lebanon.

According to an Israeli media platform, settlers reported seeing many evacuation helicopters in the skies of northern Israel. 

Later on Friday, Hezbollah announced the targeting of a Merkava tank near the al-Malikiya site with a guided missile, causing it to catch fire and leaving its crew dead or wounded. 

Hezbollah targeted an Israeli force of vehicles and soldiers attempting to infiltrate Lebanon through the village of Maroun al-Ras with artillery shells, causing confirmed casualties.

According to reports, Hezbollah detonated seven explosive devices targeting Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attempting to advance. Reports also highlighted that rumors of Israel capturing villages like Yaroun, Maroun al-Ras, or Adaisseh are entirely false.

Reporters near the border area pointed out that the IOF has not been able to establish itself at any point in the south of Lebanon so far.

Hezbollah’s operations come after the resistance movement carried out 32 diverse military operations against the Israeli occupation in just 24 hours, on Thursday. The highest number since October 8, 2023. 

The operations included repelling failed attempts by elite Israeli forces to advance towards border villages, in addition to targeting gatherings in military barracks and sites, settlements along the front line, and bombing cities and military targets deep in Israel. 

Hezbollah’s Operations Room in Lebanon, citing reliable field and security sources, revealed that the number of IOF military killed from Thursday’s attacks by its fighters in the southern border area reached 17 officers and soldiers.

According to Hezbollah, dozens of Israeli troops have been killed since the IOF attempted to invade southern Lebanon this week. Hundreds more have been injured. 

Israel continues to indiscriminately bomb southern Lebanon and the southern Dahiyeh suburb of the capital Beirut. 

Early on Friday morning, Israel also bombed the Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, along with its vicinity, forcing the closure of the international highway for Lebanese civilians fleeing to Syria. 

The Israeli military claims it struck a 3.5 kilometer underground tunnel crossing from Lebanon into Syria. Displaced people were documented crossing into Syria on foot following the attacks.

This came as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said most of Lebanon’s nearly 900 shelters are full and that people fleeing Israeli strikes are sleeping outdoors.

“Most of the nearly 900 government-established collective shelters in Lebanon have no more capacity,” the agency said at a press briefing in Geneva.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced there were “37 dead and 151 wounded as a result of Israeli raids on Thursday.”

Reports said there were an extremely intense, nonstop bombardment of the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut on Friday afternoon. 

Footage on Friday evening highlighted scenes of the violent bombardment of Dahiyeh, which locals described as worse than the bombing on September 27, in which Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated.