BEIRUT- The Israeli enemy forces continue to bulldoze and blow up many homes and civilian facilities in the Lebanese territories especially those bordering occupied Palestine.

An Israeli official told Foreign Policy that the Israeli army deliberately destroyed Aita al-Shaab and Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon so that Hezbollah would not use its infrastructure, as it claimed. However, the recent escalations have quickly belied the fact that this barbaric act will not make the border area with Palestine safe for the Zionist invaders, as Hezbollah continues to intensify its strikes on the hostile locations where the enemy’s army forces are deployed.

Hezbollah also confronts attempts to penetrate and destroys military sites in the colonial settlements in response to the bloody attacks aimed at compensating for the failure in the battlefields.

As part of the “Khaybar” series of operations, Hezbollah’s “Islamic Resistance Operations Room” announced the beginning of a new escalating phase of fighting the enemy, targeting the depth of the occupied territories in occupied Palestinian Haifa, as it launched a salvo of qualitative missiles targeting the city of Haifa.

Other Hezbollah’s salvos targeted the Kiryat Elazar site, the main air defence base, west of Haifa, in addition to launching a squadron of attack drones on the Nasharim base southeast of Haifa. Hezbollah launched another squadron on the Ein Shemer base (a missile air defence base and the regional brigade base) east of Hadera. Hezbollah also launched a missile salvo towards the Krayot, north of Haifa.

Through these heroic operations, it is clear that Hezbollah is determined to target the main and sensitive military bases in the Haifa area. This demonstrates the extensive and advanced armament and operational capabilities that the resistance still possesses, despite the ferocity of the fighting and the intensity of US-led genocidal war against most Lebanese areas.

This escalation by Hezbollah belies the claims of the Zionist enemy that it has managed to eliminate its qualitative and strategic capabilities, as well as its military leadership. 

In parallel, the resistance continued to target military factories in the northern region, including: the Zevulun base north of Haifa; the Yoav barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan.

Further, Hezbollah targeted gatherings of Zionist enemy soldiers in the occupied city of Safed, around the Lebanese town of Aita al-Shaab, on the outskirts of the Lebanese town of Kfar Kila, and in the settlement of Shlomi.

In the meantime, Hezbollah continues to destroy Merkava tanks, as the resistance targeted a tank around the Israeli Abbad site with a guided missile, which led to its burning and the deaths and injuries of its crew.

Also, Hezbollah’s air defence unit confronted an Israeli drone in the airspace of the south with a surface-to-air missile, forcing it to retreat. Following these fierce confrontations, Israeli Channel 12 reported that the Golani Brigade suffered heavy losses, after losing 9 officers and soldiers. 

Meanwhile, the Israeli enemy announced that 50 soldiers and officers were injured in ground combat in the south on Friday alone.  Several hospitals in the entity revealed that they received dozens of wounded soldiers, as clashes took place between Hezbollah and the Israeli enemy forces, on the western outskirts of the town of Aita al-Shaab, and anti-tank missiles were launched against the enemy forces, in addition to machine gun fire, artillery shells and rockets, which forced them to retreat, then warplanes were sent to carry out intensive raids in the area, in addition to extensive artillery shelling.

This escalation indeed proves that Hezbollah has regained the initiative despite the US-Israeli air control and intelligence coverage of all Lebanese territory.