Hezbollah retains ‘Fire for Fire’ strategy; takes Tel Aviv under ballistic missile barrage

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah keeps employing its “Fire for Fire, Beirut for Tel Aviv” defensive strategy in the face of the Israeli regime’s intensified deadly aggression against Lebanon.

On Monday, the movement targeted Tel Aviv in the occupied Palestinian territories with several strikes, indicating that it would not buckle under the regime’s policy of escalating its deadly attacks on civilians in Lebanon to pressure the resistance into accepting its terms, various resistance media outlets reported.

It brought the city under salvos of ballistic missiles, at least eight rockets, and drones, wounding at least five settlers, one of whom sustained serious injuries.

Footage emanating from the operation showed Israeli missile systems failing to intercept one of the missiles that made direct impact reportedly near a mall in the city, according to the regime’s Channel 12.

Israeli police sources confirmed that the operation had resulted in “a direct hit,” adding, “There are fears of building collapses.”

The Israeli casualties were caused in the city of Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, after four explosions rang out in the targeted area.

A building and a bus were also hit and a fire broke out in the city of Bnei Brak, which is likewise located east of Tel Aviv.

A picture emerged showing the moments that ran up to one of Hezbollah’s missile operations against Tel Aviv and its aftermath.

Other Israeli sources reported that the operations had resulted in the closure of Ben Gurion, the regime’s busiest airport, which is located in the central part of the occupied territories, adding that power outages had also been reported in some areas of “Greater Tel Aviv.”

Describing one of the operations, Hezbollah said its fighters had targeted the Tel Haim base that belongs to the Israeli regime’s Military Intelligence Division in Tel Aviv with a missile barrage and a drone squadron.

The projectiles and the aircraft “hit their targets accurately,” the movement added.

The group also targeted the Krayot area, north of the city of Haifa, with a rocket barrage, and launched an aerial attack with a squadron of attack drones on the Regavim base, a military base containing training camps for the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade, southeast of Haifa.

The operations, which came as part of the movement’s Khaybar series of operations, were conducted under the slogan, "We are at your service O Nasrallah," a reference to Hezbollah’s former secretary general, who was assassinated during intense Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon’s capital Beirut in late September.

The retaliation was also meant as a show of “support for our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance,” besides serving to defend Lebanon in the face of the regime’s deadly escalation, the group said.

Hezbollah has been conducting hundreds of such operations against the northern side of the occupied territories since last October, when the regime began launching a genocidal war on Gaza and brought Lebanon under intensified deadly aggression.

Hezbollah conducts successful operations against five major Israeli bases in Haifa

Hezbollah conducts successful retaliatory operations against five major Israeli military bases in the city of Haifa and its vicinity.

The brutal military onslaught and the aggression have respectively claimed the lives of more than 43,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and upwards of 3,510 Lebanese people.

Also on Monday, Hezbollah’s fighters targeted the Shraga base, the administrative headquarters of the Golani Brigade Command, north of the city of Akka, on two occasions with a rocket barrage.

They launched an airstrikes using drones on a gathering of Israeli forces at the newly established headquarters of the Israeli military’s Western Brigade Command at the Ya'ara Barracks.

Israeli media outlets reported affliction of “extensive damage” by Hezbollah’s rockets on the illegal settlement of Kiryat Shmona, noting that the settlement "awaits a long reconstruction. It needs to be rebuilt due to the destruction it suffered as a result of Hezbollah missiles."

The head of Margaliot Council in the northern occupied territories described the area as “dangerous,” saying the illegal Israeli settlers, who had left the area as well as other areas across the northern side amid Hezbollah’s reprisal, had not been able to return to their settler units for more than a year.

At the same time, the movement released another video showing its targeting the Stella Maris Base and the headquarters of the regime’s elite Shayetet 13 Naval Commando Unit with Fajr-3 rockets and advanced attack drones earlier this month.

Continuing their reprisal on Tuesday, Hezbollah’s fighters targeted an advanced Israeli Hermes 450 drone in the skies of the town of Taybeh in southern Lebanon with a surface-to-air missile, shooting the aircraft down.

Ori Misghif, a journalist with the regime’s Ha’aretz newspaper, meanwhile, recounted attending the funeral of Israeli Warrant Officer Guy Idan of the Israeli military’s Battalion 89 of the 8th Armored Division, who was killed in Lebanon, while trying to advance Tel Aviv’s military agenda against the country.

He denounced the regime for sustaining its aggression against Gaza and Lebanon at the cost of the Israeli forces’ lives, and refusing to treat the troops, whether alive or dead, with sufficient respect,

“Notably absent from the burial ceremony was a representative from the [Israeli] government of blood and destruction. In less than 24 hours, ten reserve soldiers were killed in Lebanon," Misghif said.

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