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Hezbollah Attacks Major Complex in Haifa

CrossFireArabia
September 23, 2024

Lebanese group Hezbollah fired rockets at an Israeli military industrial complex in Haifa on Monday, marking the second attack on the northern city since the current conflict began last 7 October, 2023.

The group said dozens of rockets were launched at Rafael Electronics Company north of Haifa, as well as the reserve headquarters of the Northern Corps and logistics base of the Galilee Formation in the Ami’ad camp.

BREAKING: Haifa under attack. Hezbollah is targeting industrial and military Israeli facilities in the area with direct hits. Massive explosions are heard and reports that Ramat David air base have been hit. These are long range missiles. Lebanon has every right to defend itself pic.twitter.com/kOzLLaTI35
— Hadi (@HadiNasrallah) September 21, 2024

Israeli Channel 13 reported that five illegal settlers sustained minor injuries from shrapnel after rockets were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel.

This was the second time Hezbollah targeted military sites in Haifa, having previously fired missiles at the city on Sunday.

The rocket fire came as at least 100 people were killed and more than 400 others injured, including children, women and medics, in intensive Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since Monday morning, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The Israeli army confirmed that its warplanes struck more than 300 targets across Lebanon this morning.

Tension has mounted between Hezbollah and Israel following a deadly airstrike on Friday that killed at least 45 people, including children and women, and injured dozens in Beirut’s southern suburb.

Hezbollah confirmed that at least 16 of its members, including senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and top commander Ahmed Wahbi, were killed in the Israeli strike.

🚨🇮🇱 BREAKING

MAJOR HEZBOLLAH ATTACK

Hezbollah have launched a massive missile attack on Haifa, in un-evacuated areas

In this thread, I'll show all of the attacks:

(🧵 1/6) pic.twitter.com/QE6lRhE2G1
— Alex Barnicoat (@AlexBarnicoat_) June 11, 2024

The attack came days after at least 37 people were killed and over 3,000 others injured in two waves of wireless communication device explosions across Lebanon according to Anadolu, the Turkish news agency.

While the Lebanese government and Hezbollah blame Israel for the explosions, Tel Aviv has not denied or confirmed its involvement.

Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, which has killed over 41,400 people, mostly women and children, following a cross-border attack by Hamas on 7 October last year.

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Israel Kills 100 People in 200 Raids on Lebanon

CrossFireArabia
September 23, 2024

The Ministry of Health in Lebanon announced that “100 people were killed and more than 400 injured as a result of Israeli raids on various areas in eastern and southern Lebanon. In turn Hezbollah stated it bombed Haifa and the Galilee with missiles.

#عاجل | وزارة الصحة اللبنانية: 100 شهيد وأكثر من 400 جريح في الغارات الإسرائيلية على جنوب #لبنان pic.twitter.com/KLPpQLBYDg
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) September 23, 2024

Israeli warplanes launched more than 250 raids on various areas in eastern and southern Lebanon this morning, Monday.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent said the raids targeted the towns of Mays al-Jabal, Aitaroun, Houla, Taybeh, Markaba, Bani Hayyan, Jabal al-Rayhan, the heights of Iqlim al-Tuffah al-Tiri, Bint Jbeil, Hanin, Zawtar, and the Nabatieh region in southern Lebanon.

⚠️🇱🇧غارات كانت قبل قليل على جنوب لبنان
صيدا – ومنطقة بالقرب من بعلبك

وبحسب وزارة الصحة اللبنانية،فإن الغارات الإسرائيلية المستمرة
أسفرت عن مقتل 100 شخص على الأقل وإصابة أكثر من 400 شخص في لبنان
بحسب ما أوردته (وكالة رويترز) pic.twitter.com/AtMvsglH39
— (هِمّه) Himma (@Himma0099) September 23, 2024

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Why Did Hezbollah Name Its Missiles Fadi?

CrossFireArabia
September 23, 2024

After the Hezbollah missiles that targeted Israel’s Ramat David base and airport with Fadi I and Fadi II missiles, social media activists circulated a picture of Yoav Galant with the question: Who is Fadi?

أبو زيد يوضح ما هي الصواريخ الجديدة المستخدمة (فادي 1 وفادي2)#نبض_البلد #رؤيا_الإخباري #لبنان #حزب_الله #فلسطين pic.twitter.com/rQT36HpJuE
— Nabdalbalad – نبض البلد (@royanabdalbalad) September 23, 2024

Returning to the picture, it turned out it was Israel’s Defense Minister, who is being constantly threatened with dismissal, visited the Ramat David Base on 18 September and which Hezbollah bombed.

Galant announced then that the “the center of gravity is moving north,” and said: “We are shifting forces, resources, and energy to the north.”

Since Hezbollah launched its missiles, the most frequently asked question has been: Who is Fadi, the name bearer of those missiles?

The truth is that these missiles, despite many views on the social media, were named after Fadi Hassan Al Tawil, who was born on 10 May, 1969 in West Beirut, and originally belonged to the southern town of Khirbet Silm.

Fadi 2 ,this should be locally produced by Hezbollah, missile tech is based on Syrian Khaibar 1 & M-302.
Explosive warhead: 170 kilograms.
– Rocket caliber: 302 millimeters.
– Rocket length: 6 meters.
– Range: 100 kilometers. pic.twitter.com/yRL4zIkvMS
— IranMilitaryNews (@IranMilitaryNet) September 23, 2024

Al Tawil joined the ranks of the resistance in 1982, and participated in several resistance missions, from surveillance, reconnaissance, and ambushes, deep inside the “occupied strip”.

O Hezbollah também publicou detalhes do foguete Fadi-2: 6 m de comprimento-Alcance: 100 km -Ogiva: 170 kg de explosivos – Calibre: 302 mm O mesmo ocorre com o Fadi-1, usado pela primeira vez em 2006, mas recentemente introduzido nesta guerra. pic.twitter.com/C9HCzuDJkw
— BAND NET NEWS (OFICIAL) (@bnn_oficial) September 22, 2024

He was martyred during the series of the “Badr Al-Kubra” military operations carried out by the Islamic Resistance against the military positions of the Israeli occupation forces and the Antoine Lahad Army (South Lebanon Army that cooperated with the Israeli occupation to control southern Lebanon) on 30 May, 1987.

His body remained on the battlefield for eight days before being removed and buried. He is the brother of the Hezbollah commander Wissam Al-Tawil, who was killed in southern Lebanon during Hezbollah’s support for the resistance in Gaza in the current “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle.

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Deir Al Balah Massacre: Mom, Her 4 Kids Killed

CrossFireArabia
September 23, 2024

A Palestinian mother and her four children were killed in an Israeli airstrike that struck their home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, at dawn on Monday.

Local sources reported that the airstrike targeted the family home of Abu Samak, killing the mother and four of her children, who were peacefully sleeping at the time.

The children were aged between four and eight years old.

The woman was identified as Israa Abu Samak, 29. The slain children were Abdullah Mohammed Abu Samak, aged eight; Ahmed, aged seven; Zeina, aged five; and Mazen, aged four according to the Quds News Network.

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Israel is Losing in Gaza And Against Hezbollah – Military Expert

CrossFireArabia
September 23, 2024

Military expert Dr. Nidal Abu Zeid said the success of the resistance in attacking the occupation’s military hardware and drones proves the falseness of the Israeli story of eliminating the Rafah Brigade.

He noted that after the withdrawal of the 98th Paratroopers Division from Gaza a few days ago, the only remaining Israeli forces were the 162nd Armored Division to fight in Rafah, the Alexandroni Brigade and the 8th Armored Brigade in the Netzarim axis; he added there were five divisions fighting at the beginning of the military operations.

Abu Zeid added to Jordan24 that the resistance is working at a calm pace to achieve three tactics, which are operations with political messages, as is happening in Rafah.

He indicated that low-intensity operations outline the features of a long phase of attrition which is what the Palestinian resistance group want to exhaust the remaining Israeli forces in Gaza, which have been fighting for 352 days.

Lebanon

Regarding what is happening in southern Lebanon, Abu Zeid said the Israeli forces have tried to maintain the initiative and want to accumulate achievements and not give Hezbollah the opportunity to reorganize its ranks in order to deprive it of the ability to launch operations towards the north of the occupied territories.

However he added, it seems that Hezbollah has begun to regain the ability to seize the initiative through the missile barrages it launched at dawn on Sunday and reached deep into northern Israel, reaching the Ramat David base and airport with dozens of Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles. This shows that Hezbollah is rebuilding its capabilities, but it is still early to judge the full recovery of the decision-making chain.

Abu Zeid stressed that the operations with Hezbollah have moved from the scope of “geographical targeting” to those of targeting the party’s organizational structure, pointing out calculing profit and loss in this form of unconventional operations is not measured by the method of air strikes, but by calculating the points in which the resistance still excels, whether in Gaza or in southern Lebanon.

He added Israel did not achieve its goal by its operations against Hezbollah to return the residents of the northern settlements nor did it achieve its goals in Gaza by recovering the prisoners or create a new security reality.

The military expert indicated that the occupation is winning tactically but losing strategically.