2023-11-11 19:21:36
This Saturday, the leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, affirmed that his powerful formation had begun to use new weapons in the attacks it has carried out daily against Israel since the start of the war in Gaza.
“During the past week (…) there has been a strengthening of resistance action on the Lebanese front, due to the number of operations, the number of objectives targeted and also the weapons used,” he said. assured the head of the pro-Iranian formation.
Suicide drones and Burkan missiles
“For the first time in the history of resistance in Lebanon, we are using suicide drones” to attack targets in Israel, Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech.
He indicated that Hezbollah had also used in recent days, for the first time, “Burkan (Volcano) missiles, which can carry explosive charges of 300 to 500 kilos”.
The Hezbollah leader revealed that his formation now sends reconnaissance drones “daily” deep above Israel, “some of which reach Haifa, Acre and Safed” in the north.
91 people killed in Israeli strikes
There have been daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel in the border area between the two countries since the start of the deadly war triggered by the bloody attacks perpetrated on October 7 on Israeli soil by Palestinian Hamas.
Hassan Nasrallah added that Hezbollah had also used Katyusha rockets to bombard Israeli territory in depth, notably in response to the death of civilians (a woman and her three granddaughters) in an Israeli strike on November 5 in the south. from Lebanon.
At least 91 people have been killed since the start of violence in Israeli strikes, most of them Hezbollah fighters, but also 11 civilians, according to an AFP count.
“You must stop the aggression in Gaza”
On Saturday, the Shiite Amal movement, ally of Hezbollah, announced for the first time that it had lost a fighter in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon, according to a press release from this group led by the President of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri. Six soldiers and two civilians were killed on the Israeli side.
Referring to the attacks against Israel and the United States carried out by the “axis of resistance” including his party and other pro-Iranian groups in the region, from Yemen to Iraq, he said, addressing Washington: “if you want these operations to stop (…) you must stop the aggression in Gaza”.
Hezbollah has lost 68 fighters since the start of its intervention against Israel from southern Lebanon, aimed at supporting Hamas, its ally.
Strikes in Syria
Its leader explained this heavy toll by the continuous overflights by Israeli drones of southern Lebanon, explaining that Hezbollah fighters who “go to the front line to fire rockets” against targets in Israeli territory were broke.
Hassan Nasrallah further revealed that the party had lost “several martyrs yesterday (Friday) in Syria”, where it is fighting alongside the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Hezbollah announced Friday that seven of its fighters had been killed by Israeli strikes, without specifying where or when. The Israeli army, for its part, indicated on Friday that it had struck an organization in Syria, which it did not name, claiming that it was behind a drone attack against a school in the south of Syria. Israel the day before.
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