BEIRUT (Dispatches) --
 Hezbollah has fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at a military base located in the northern part of the occupied territories following Israeli attacks against southern and eastern Lebanon.
The Lebanese movement fired the projectiles towards “the main air and missile defense base of the northern area command” on Thursday, causing a blaze and a power outage.
Israeli media outlets referred to the attack as one of Hezbollah’s biggest rocket barrages in recent weeks.
Also on Thursday, the group’s “Unmanned Air Force launched several kamikaze drones at the Israeli Al-Naqoura naval base on the Mediterranean coast,” Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen television said, citing a Hezbollah statement.
“The drones impacted the positions and dwelling areas of Israeli occupation officers and soldiers, killing and injuring several of them,” the network added.
The operations came after the Israeli military attacked the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, targeting a two-storey building and wounding “more than 20” people. Israel had also struck the village of Sohmor in Lebanon’s east, martyring a Hezbollah member.
The exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the occupying regime has intensified since the Israeli assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Sami Taleb Abdullah.
The movement has retaliated by firing hundreds of rockets into the northern parts of the occupied territories.
The Zionist military said earlier this month that it had approved plans for a full-scale attack on Lebanon.
Deputy chairman of Hezbollah’s Executive Council Sheikh Nabil Qaouq downplayed the threats on Monday, saying they “do not lend assurance to the regime, but rather drown them in a sea of fear.”
“The enemy’s senior officials threaten, but are trembling with fear,” he said, noting that “the resistance’s missiles and drones are capable of reaching their sensitive targets wherever it wants.”
The United States is in the midst of an intense diplomatic push to prevent full-on war between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, as the risks rise that either side could initiate a broader regional fight, the New York Times wrote Friday.
In recent days, U.S. officials have pressed their Israeli counterparts and passed messages to Hezbollah’s leaders with the goal of averting a wider regional conflict, the paper said. 
Zionist war minister, Yoav Gallant, met with several Biden administration officials in Washington this week, in large measure to discuss the escalating tensions along the border with Lebanon. That visit followed one last week by the occupying regime’s security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, and its minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer.
The United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths on Wednesday warned of “apocalyptic” consequences if Israel’s military
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