Fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement have conducted new operations against Israeli military targets in reprisal for the regime's assassination of a top commander of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Press TV reports.
Hezbollah announced in a statement that it targeted espionage equipment at an Israeli outpost at the Metulla settlement in northern part of the 1948-occupied territories with a barrage of rockets, achieving direct hits.
Separately, the resistance fighters struck a gathering of Israeli troops in Admit settlement with appropriate weapons, hitting the designated targets precisely. The attack caused a fire in the area and inflicted casualties on the Israeli forces.
Hezbollah also published video footage of its strikes on Israeli military barracks and bases in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as in northern occupied Palestinian lands.
It stated that the operations came in solidarity with steadfast Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in support of honorable resistance fighters in the coastal territory, and in retaliation for Israeli strikes on residential areas in southern Lebanon.
Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah said that one of its high-ranking commanders, identified as Muhammad Nimah Nasser, also known as “Hajj Abu Naameh”, was assassinated.
A source close to the group confirmed to the AFP news agency that Nasser had been killed in an Israeli attack against the Hosh area in Tyre in southern Lebanon.
In response, the resistance group said it launched more than 200 rockets and drones targeting Israeli military positions in response to the assassination on Thursday.
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