Hezbollah is keeping up its strikes against Israeli targets across the Zionist entity’s north, employing on Saturday both missiles and drones and inflicting losses among occupation forces.
The Lebanese resistance group staged several strikes on Saturday, “in support to our steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza and in solidarity with their courageous and honorable resistance,” a statement by Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance read.
At 7:10 on Saturday, the Islamic Resistance fighters fired a guided missile at a bunker where Israeli occupation soldiers stationed in Birkat Risha site, Hezbollah’s Military Media announced in a statement, reporting confirmed casualties.
The same site witnessed, another strike an hour later, at 8:10. The second strike targeted an Israeli infantry force in the vicinity of the Birkat Risha site, according to the statement.
The Military Media provided the statements with photos showing coordinates of the targeted sites.
The Islamic Resistance, later at 11:00, flew a suicide explosive drone, targeting a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers outside Ramim barracks, a military site established in the occupied Lebanese Hounin village. The drone strike caused confirmed casualties among occupation forces, the third statement read.
The tweet below, by Al-Manar correspondnet in south Lebanon Ali Shoeib, provides video showing smoke rising of the site targeted by the suicide drone.
مراسل المنار :
من يعرف جغرافية “وادي هونين” و “ثكنة راميم” و أحراج مستعمرة “مرغليوت” التي تقع ضمن منطقة منخفضة بين جبلين و محدودة الرؤيا من الجانب اللبناني خصوصا الحافة الامامية المستهدفة دائما والمراقبة بالمسيرات على مدار الساعة ، يعلم أهمية الإنجاز الإستخباري والمعلوماتي التي… pic.twitter.com/sm6YLUhPbI— علي شعيب || Ali Shoeib 🇱🇧 (@alishoeib1970) December 16, 2023
Israeli Military Censor Imposes Ban
For its part, Israeli media confirmed that Hezbollah has staged a drone strike, targeting the so-called Margaliot settlement.
“Two apparently explosive-laden drones entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon, setting off sirens in the Galilee Panhandle,” The Times of Israel reported, citing Israeli occupation military.
“One was intercepted by the Iron Dome, while the second hit an area near the northern community of Margaliot,” the Israeli media outlet added.
Hebrew media then reported that the Israeli military censor imposed a ban on publications related to the drone strike in Margaliot.
Later on Saturday, Hebrew media reported that an Israeli soldier was killed and three others were injured, including one seriously, in the Margaliot strike.
Hezbollah’s Military Media released a photo showing destruction at a site reportedly targeted by the drone strike.
More Hezbollah Strikes
The fourth Hezbollah strike targeted an Israeli motorized infantry force at the Israeli settlement of Mutela, the group’s Military Media declared, adding that it took place at 11:15 on Saturday.
Later at 14:00, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a group of Israeli enemy soldiers entering two houses in Al-Manara Israeli settlement. The fifth strike resulted in confirmed casualties among occupation soldiers, according to a statement released by Hezbollah’s Military Media.
Israeli Strikes on Lebanese Border Towns
Meanwhile on Saturday, Al-Manar correspondent reported several strikes and shelling of Lebanese border towns.
Our correspondent in south Lebanon said Israeli warplanes struck Jabal Blat in the western sector, adding that the Israeli artillery shelled Khiam, Mais Al-Jabal, Blida and Houla border towns.
مراسل المنار:
ثلاث غارات جوية شنها الطيران الحربي المعادي على جبل بلاط في القطاع الغربي من جنوب لبنان pic.twitter.com/nBhZ2GUrDg
— علي شعيب || Ali Shoeib 🇱🇧 (@alishoeib1970) December 16, 2023
Source: Al-Manar English Website
