Hezbollah launches largest attack on Israel since October 7

TEHRAN: Numerous “massive” rocket alerts were issued in settlements in northern Israel throughout Wednesday as Hezbollah launched “unprecedented” rocket attacks.

More than 50 air raid sirens sounded across much of northern Israel.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) acknowledged that a large number of missiles had been fired from Lebanon.

Hezbollah fired a first wave of around 90 rockets on Wednesday morning.

“Crashes were detected in several areas in the north, resulting in fires breaking out in several locations. The details are currently being investigated,” the IOF said.

Following the IOF statement, Lebanese Hezbollah fired a second salvo of at least 70 rockets.

Later that day, an IOF statement said Hezbollah had fired “more than 160 rockets.”
The IOF claimed they were attacking resistance group targets in Lebanon, but sirens continued to sound in Israeli settlements.

As Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the massive rocket attack, reports emerged that drones were being used against Israeli military sites, including in Zar’it.

An attack on the Israeli military research and development company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems was also reported.

Sirens also sounded in Safad, Rosh Pina and Tabarayya, as well as in numerous other towns in the Israeli-occupied region of al-Jaleel (also known as the Galilee). After the attack, the IOF called on Israelis within a 10-kilometer radius of the Lebanese border to seek shelter.
According to Israeli media, a massive fire has broken out in the Biriya forest near Safad. More than a dozen firefighting teams and aircraft are working to contain it.

Israeli news portal Ynet described the attack as “unprecedented”. It quoted the mayor of Tabarayya, Yossi Nevea, as saying: “The feeling is very depressing. This is the first time in months that there has been an alarm here.”

Footage posted on social media shows Israel’s Iron Dome attempting to intercept rocket fire and impacts from the attacks in Meron.

The Meron military air traffic control and surveillance station, probably the largest base in the north, is subjected to regular attacks by Hezbollah.

In solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese resistance movement carries out daily attacks on Israel.

Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been trading blows since the start of the US-backed Israeli war against the besieged and occupied enclave in October last year.

Hostilities have escalated steadily since October, raising fears of a major confrontation between the heavily armed Lebanese movement and the Israeli regime.

An Israeli attack in a southern Lebanese village late Tuesday night killed four people, including Taleb Sami Abdallah (Abu Taleb), a prominent leader of the resistance movement.

In more than 10 statements released on Wednesday, Hezbollah said it had carried out a series of actions in response to the attack, including firing guided missiles at an Israeli military factory.

According to the statements, the resistance movement claimed to have attacked several Israeli military sites, including a base in Ein Zeitim, Ami’ad and other military sites in Israeli-occupied Lebanese territory, as well as the military air surveillance base in Meron.

The resistance movement also announced that it was planning an attack on a factory that produces armored military vehicles.

According to Hezbollah, dozens of state-of-the-art Katyusha rockets were used in each operation.
Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine said on Wednesday that the resistance movement would increase the intensity, power and quantity of its operations against the Israeli occupation.