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Hezbollah attacked on August 23 a key air traffic control base of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) located on Mount Meron in northern Israel.
In a statement, the group said it targeted surveillance equipment in the base, which is located some eight kilometers from Lebanon border, using “suitable weapons” in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in the Gaza Strip as well as in response to recent Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon.
The IDF confirmed that three projectiles were fired from southern Lebanon at Mount Meron base, and claimed that one of them was intercepted by its air defenses. The projectiles were reportedly anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs).
No casualties were reported by the IDF or Hebrew media. Nevertheless, video footage posted to social networks showed thick smoke rising from Mount Meron which indicates that the base took some serious damage.
Hezbollah has attacked Mount Meron base several times since the outbreak of the clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border in the backdrop of the war on Gaza, using mainly rockets and ATGMs.
Around the same time as the attack on Mount Meron, an Israeli strike hit the southern Lebanese town of Tayr Harfa. The IDF said later in a statement that a combat drone targeted a cell of Hezbollah that was located by the 146th Division. Lebanese media reported that three people were killed in the strike. All three were reported fighters of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah and its allies have been launching near-daily attacks against Israel in support of the Hamas Movement and other armed factions in Gaza since the outbreak of the war on the Strip last October.
So far, the confrontation has resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Golan as well as the deaths of at least 19 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 700 people have been killed, including 401 fighters of Hezbollah and over 130 civilians.
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wouldn’t that make sense to attack the airfields and f-35s at the first possible opportunity?
they should aim for nutteryahoos gay bathhouse in tel-aviv
that would easily come after with a crippled israeli air force.
guess they’ll have the opportunity once the zionazis air defenses are saturated by the iranian counter strikes.
then again i doubt that they would leave the 35’s outside of the shelters when it happens.
targetting the pilots can also achieve a similar result, using smaller, cheaper munitions.
zionazis parasites are blatantly lying as usual… since when can air defense intercept atgm?
hamas 2.0 – i would grow more olive trees and bushes to hide under and wear heat tard clothing.
hezbollah guys need to ditch their israeli app laced cell phones, and dress like civies to avoid drone strikes during operations. too many videos with geolocation data imbedded in the video file also gives away your firing positions, fuzz filters don’t scrub that data. to beat the zionists, you need greater disciple and zero info released about any success except to inner circles.
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and what kind of damage did the guided missile cause? seems not a lot. toothless old hezbollah – where are the russian weapons? seems putin has some answering to do!