Hezbollah Strikes Golan Brigade Headquarters with Large Rocket Barrage
Hezbollah has bombed the headquarters of the Golan Brigade with a large barrage of rockets. The Israeli army has launched an airstrike on a Hezbollah military compound in the Sfiri area of the Baalbek Governorate.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced on Monday the launch of “dozens” of rockets at an Israeli military base in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights in “response” to an Israeli airstrike on the Baalbek area in eastern Lebanon, indicating an escalation in tension along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
The Israeli army announced on Monday morning that its warplanes carried out a “strike targeting a military complex of Hezbollah in the Sfiri area” in the Baalbek Governorate. Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported that the shelling resulted in the injury of three people.
Hezbollah said in a statement on Monday that its members targeted “the headquarters of the Golan Brigade (210) at the Nafah base with dozens of Katyusha rockets” as “a response to the enemy’s attack on the Baalbek area”.
The National News Agency reported that “the enemy warplanes launched a raid at around one and a half in the morning (22:30 GMT on Sunday) on a factory in the town of Sfiri” near the city of Baalbek. This led to “the fall of three civilian casualties and the destruction of the targeted building”. The town of Sfiri is about 80 kilometers from the border with Israel.
The Israeli army announced that its warplanes carried out “during the night hours… a strike targeting a military complex of Hezbollah in the Sfiri area deep inside Lebanon”.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire across the border almost daily since the start of the war between the Israeli state and the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip about seven months ago.
While the shelling has mostly remained in border areas on both sides, the Israeli army sometimes conducts airstrikes deep into Lebanese territory, prompting the party to escalate its operations or target more distant sites.
These developments come hours after four people from one family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday targeting the town of Meiss Al-Jabal in southern Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. The party announced yesterday the launch of dozens of rockets at towns in northern Israel in response to “the targeting of civilians”.
The party repeatedly announces the targeting of Israeli spy sites, military gatherings, and installations in support of Gaza and “in support of its resistance”. The Israeli army responds with air and artillery strikes, targeting “party infrastructure” and the movements of fighters near the border.
Since the escalation began, at least 390 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 255 Hezbollah members and more than 70 civilians, according to a toll compiled based on party statements and official Lebanese sources. The Israeli side has counted the deaths of 11 soldiers and nine civilians.
Hezbollah and other factions have launched attacks against the Israeli army “in solidarity with the Gaza Strip”, which has been under devastating Israeli war since October 7, 2023, resulting in the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands, most of them children and women, prompting Tel Aviv to appear before the International Court of Justice for the first time since its establishment in 1948, on charges of “genocide”.
