Hezbollah Fires Over 200 Rockets Into Israel After Top Terror Commander Killed
IDF drone strike on Wednesday took out Hezbollah operative Muhammad Naser, who was “one of the terrorist group’s most senior commanders eliminated since the outbreak of the war.”
A day after Israel eliminated one of Hezbollah’s top terror commander in southern Lebanon, the Iran-backed terrorist group has intensified rocket and drone attacks aimed at cities across northern Israel.
On early Thursday, Hezbollah fired more than 200 rockets and 20 drones towards the Galilee and the Golan areas. “Following the sirens that sounded earlier today in northern Israel, approximately 200 projectiles and over 20 suspicious aerial targets were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory, a number of which were intercepted by the IDF Aerial Defense Array and IAF fighter jets,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a press statement Thursday morning.
The IDF updates that Hezbollah launched some 200 rockets and 20 drones from Lebanon at northern Israel in the terror group's major attack earlier.
It says that some of the rockets and drones were shot down by air defense and fighter jets.
In response, fighter jets struck… pic.twitter.com/suikbSq1EM
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) July 4, 2024
The Israeli Air Force responded by hitting “Hezbollah military structures in the areas of Ramyeh and Houla in southern Lebanon,” the IDF added.
The Thursday’s barrage was one of the most intense since Hezbollah renewed hostilities in the wake of the October 7 attack. “In one of the most intense attacks by the Lebanese terror group of the war, [Hezbollah] also fired on cities like Acre and Nahariya, which have generally been left off of its target list, beyond cities like Kiryat Shmona, which have been attacked almost non-stop.” the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.
🚨BREAKING: Non-stop #Hezbollah rockets, missiles and drones continue to fired from #Lebanon towards Israeli communities up north, including in #Israel's Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Massive fires and damage to buildings reported. Countless of innocent civilians hide in shelters.… pic.twitter.com/ZoWImjq1ue
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) July 4, 2024
The aerial attack comes after an Israeli drone strike on Wednesday took out Muhammad Neamah Naser, who according to Israeli news website Ynet was “one of the terrorist group’s most senior commanders eliminated since the outbreak of the war” on October 7. Naser’s terrorist Aziz Unit is largely responsible for the relentless cross-border rocket fire that has forced more than 60,000 Israeli civilians to evacuate their homes since October 7.
The Times of Israel reported the intensified Hezbollah attacks:
The IDF reports in an update that Hezbollah launched some 200 rockets and 20 drones from Lebanon at northern Israel in the terror group’s major attack earlier.
It says that some of the rockets and drones were shot down by air defense and fighter jets.
In response, fighter jets struck several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon’s Ramyeh and Houla, it adds.
The IDF publishes footage of some of the strikes in Lebanon and some of the interceptions.
The rocket from Lebanon hit Israeli towns and cities as Hezbollah, and its terrorist paymaster Iran, renew their threats to launch as full-scale war on Israel.
I'm in Israel which has just been hit with the heaviest Hezbollah barrage since start of the war: 160 rockets & 15 UAVs launched from Lebanon in 1 hour. Two women slightly injured, fires breaking out across Galilee and Golan.
In Geneva, the UNHRC is in session. They are silent. pic.twitter.com/8fH3ENyzCd
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 4, 2024
Update: IDF ground operation in Rafah, Gaza
As the Israeli ground offensive in Rafah approaches its third month, the IDF is moving ahead after capturing around 70 percent of the Hamas terror stronghold.
“The IDF is continuing targeted, intelligence-based operational activity in the Rafah area. In one incident, a number of armed terrorists who were operating and posed a threat to IDF forces in the area were eliminated in an aircraft strike,” the military disclosed in a press release Thursday.
The IDF is also conducting a large-scale raid in Shejaiya neighbourhood of northern Gaza. The area was being used by Hamas to rally its remaining forces and recruit new jihad fighters, mostly teenage boys, for its terrorist campaign against the Israeli ground forces.
“IDF operational activity continues below and above the ground in the area of Shejaiya,” the military said. “Over the past day, IDF troops destroyed tunnels routes in the area and eliminated dozens of terrorists in close-quarters combat, with tank fire, and in aerial strikes. In one incident, IDF troops eliminated seven terrorists at close quarters.”
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Im sure the UN will get around to condemning these acts of terrorism any second now….
Looks like Biden is finishing up Obama’s work for Iran and the destruction of Israel.
Where is the outcry about indiscriminate (different from Israel) bombing of Northern Israel by Hezbollah?? Not a peep from Biden or the UN!!
The wisest course would be to allow Israel to complete its mission rather than forcing them into a corner.
Hezbollah’s 200 Katyusha Rocksts = $80K (USD) roughly
IDF’s 200 Tamir Interceptors = $10M (USD)
See the problem? We have the same problem with Yemen and we’re going to have an even bigger problem with the explosion of cheap-drone warfare. We have 10M+ unknowns in this country right now all enjoying the freedom to move wherever they want. Virtually NONE of our tactical aircraft nor our strategic bombers sit in hardened hangers. In fact, most sit in the open, completely vulnerable to a $400 DEI drone carrying the equivalent of an M67 frag grenade. We are so screwed.
You can include non military targets such as airport control towers along with aircraft taking off and landing.
Assasination by drone
These low cost weapons are not popular with the Pentagon and Congress critters because where’s the profit in that.
And any infrastructure node. Power distribution sites, water, food production centers…. very soft targets.
Retaliation must be swift, brutal, and indiscriminate.
where /how is hezzie getting money?
do they sell falaffals all day long?
dnc gave them exclusive rights to weed shop ownership in america??
Can someone please find out from ben stiller whether this is one of the wars that needs to continue or to end
Thanks so much
News flash
Roger Waters reportedly sez that this Lebanese rocket/drone attack on Israel never happened.
Where’s the regular reporting of the lobbed explosives? There’s gotta be an infographic of projectiles vs. time, like a daily ticker “closing strikes” graph.
That would tell an interesting story, I suspect.
“Targeted, intelligence-based” — excellent messaging, and they’re sticking to it. Evidence says it’s true, too. If Israel was just gonna wipe their opponents out indiscriminately, we’d be dealing with only crater cleanup at this point.
Hezbollah has thousands of rockets in its inventory. Israel must know where some of them are stored, most likely underground. Does Israel have the capacity to drop some weapons on the rockets stored underground to destroy them? Just imagine= the explosions could go on for hours.