TEHRAN- The Lebanese resistance Hezbollah has started using Nasr-2 precision-guided missiles to target Israeli military sites. The missile has reportedly been used to bomb an Israeli naval base in Haifa.

Nasr-2 is a surface-to-surface missile, with a total weight of 650 kg and a warhead of 140 kg with a range of 150 kilometers.    

Sirens sounded across different regions in Israel on Tuesday including Tel Aviv, Haifa, Galilee Panhandle, and the occupied Golan. A number of rockets fell around the city of Nahariya.

Shortly after the sirens, Hezbollah, in its first statement on Tuesday, said it “bombed the Nirit Dome in the outskirts of Tel Aviv with qualitative missiles”.

In a second attack on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, the Glilot military intelligence headquarters was struck with a salvo of missiles. The bombings led to a state of emergency being declared in the city.

The Lebanese resistance also released a second statement declaring that it struck the Stella Maris naval base in northwest Haifa with a missile salvo.

Footage has shown the intensity of the explosions heard in Israel after sirens sounded across different regions.

A rocket launched from Lebanon made a direct impact on an Israeli settlement west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The explosion was reportedly heard across different areas surrounding the settlement.

Hezbollah declares “full, complete and exclusive responsibility for the Caesarea operation targeting the private residence of Benjamin Netanyahu.”Meanwhile, as was widely expected the Lebanese resistance has declared “its full, complete and exclusive responsibility for the Caesarea operation targeting the private residence of [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu,” the movement’s Media Relations Officer, Mohammed Afif, told reporters. 

The spokesman for Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, said: 

“We commend the special operation in which Hezbollah targeted the residence of the war criminal Netanyahu, sending a message to the criminal leaders of the occupation that even if they manage to evade the blind international justice, they will not escape the rightful retribution from the free and resistant people of the nation.”

On the ground, Israeli forces continue to face challenges in their invasion of Lebanon. 

Hezbollah has revealed that while an Israeli force was infiltrating the outskirts of the town of Taybeh on Monday night “we clashed with it using appropriate weapons and inflicted direct hits on it”. 

“At that point, the enemy brought in armored vehicles to support the clashing force, so we confronted it again and forced it to retreat. Then we bombarded the retreating force in the assembly area with rocket weapons and achieved direct hits on it,” a statement read. 

Another statement read, “Our fighters targeted a Merkava tank while it was advancing between Rab El-Thalathine and Taybeh, which led to its burning and the deaths and injuries of its crew.”

Hezbollah has published a video (which has gone viral on social media) of an operation it conducted on October 15 that targeted a gathering of Israeli troops, tanks and military vehicle on the Lebanese border village of Ramya using an Almas anti-armor missile. 

On October 15, among the list of statements issued by Hezbollah, statement number 15 refers to the exact details of this operation, which states that at Ramya, Israeli troops, tanks and bulldozers were targeted. 

Although the missile doesn’t have a very powerful warhead, it has been used to target Israeli military vehicles and troops. 

Experts have underlined that the location of the attack as is evident by the camera attached to the Almas missile, shows the Israeli troops five to ten meters from the Lebanese border. Cement blocks that have been removed from a demarcation wall are also seen in the video, paving the way for Israeli forces to enter Ramya.

Contrary to claims that Ramya has been occupied as some regional media have reported, Hezbollah is believed to have intentionally published the video to show that only five to ten meters of Ramya, near the border, are under the control of the Israeli occupation forces.    

Furthermore, eight Israeli troops are visible in the video before the Hezbollah missile strikes. Three or four of them are targeted with the first missile. The camera of the second missile shows the remaining troops attending to the injured troops before they are targeted as well. 

According to experts, this single operation injured or killed up to eight Israeli troops. In essence, on a single day, Hezbollah issues around 30 statements. Not all of them are linked to attacks on Israeli army gatherings on the borderline but at least a dozen or more are related to attacks on Israeli forces along flash points at the Lebanese border.   

Analysts estimate the daily Israeli army casualty figures on the Lebanese border are at least 50 or 60 and can reach up to 100. 

The ground war on Lebanon is in its third week.