TEHRAN- The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah continues to defend Lebanon’s sovereignty from Israeli ground invasion while also widening offensive operations.

The movement targeted “an explosive materials factory in Hadera, south of Haifa, with a salvo of qualitative rockets”. This marks the first time the factory has been struck. 

Hezbollah targeted a gathering of “Israeli enemy army forces in the Doviv barracks with a rocket barrage”.

Among its other operations on Tuesday, Hezbollah targeted a gathering of Israeli forces in the al-Ramtha site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills “with a barrage of qualitative missiles.”

The Israeli army said that at least ten of its soldiers were injured in battles in southern Lebanon during the past 24 hours.

On Monday, Hezbollah targeted the Israeli “Meron Base for Aerial Operations Surveillance and Management” with missile salvos in three separate operations. 

Hezbollah said it carried out 19 operations in total on Monday. 

In a sign of Israeli failure to cut Hezbollah’s support front for Gaza, the Lebanese resistance movement said all its operations are being waged “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and backing their courageous and honorable Resistance and in defense of Lebanon and its people.” 

The statement detailed “attempts by the Israeli enemy to advance along the Lebanese-Palestinian borders. The operations involved repelling enemy drones and warplanes, as well as targeting enemy military sites, bases, and settlements in northern and central occupied Palestine.”

The statement goes on to say these attacks involved “drones targeting gatherings of Israeli enemy forces”.

Hezbollah said some of the attacks came “in the framework of the warning issued by the Islamic Resistance to several northern settlements”. 

On Tuesday, Lebanon’s National News Agency said that Israeli occupation forces tried to infiltrate the southern border overnight from the direction of the town of Rmeish, the Khanouk Al-Kassara area.

The news agency reported that Hezbollah “confronted it, and the clash continued until dawn today, which forced the enemy to retreat after suffering heavy losses.”

According to the Hebrew news outlet Yedioth Ahronoth, Tel Aviv has withdrawn several brigades from the Lebanese front over what it claims is a decision to reach a political solution. 

The Israeli newspaper has reported that “against the background of an assessment by officials involved in the negotiations for a settlement with Lebanon predicting that an agreement may be reached within several weeks, the Israeli military has withdrawn several brigades from southern Lebanon ‘to refresh.’ The ground operation is expected to continue for at least several more weeks, as the military awaits a decision to be made by the political establishment.”

As things stand, Israeli ground forces have been unable to take full control of a single village or town on the Lebanese border more than a month after waging a land invasion.