Zionist Cities Under Heavy Fire One Year Into War

Date: 07 October 2024 - 22:08

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BEIRUT (Dispatches) --
Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third largest occupied city Haifa on Monday as Zionist forces looked poised to expand ground raids into south Lebanon on the first anniversary of the Gaza war, which has spread conflict across the Middle East.
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, the Palestinian resistance group fighting Israel in Gaza, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with “Fadi 1” missiles and launched another strike on Tiberias, 65 km (40 miles) away.
Hezbollah said it targeted areas north of Haifa in a second salvo of missiles later in the day. The Zionist military said around 135 projectiles had entered Israeli occupied territory on Monday as of 5 p.m. (1400 GMT). Ten people were reported injured in the Haifa area and two others further south in central occupied territories.
The military said the air force was carrying out extensive bombings of south Lebanon, and that two Israeli soldiers were killed in border-area combat.
Lebanon’s health ministry said 10 firefighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a municipal building in the border-area town of Bint Jbeil, and that other aerial attacks on Sunday killed 22 people in a swathe of southern and eastern towns.
An Israeli military statement said five rockets were launched towards Haifa, also a major Mediterranean port, from Lebanon. It said 15 other rockets were fired inland at Tiberias in northern Galilee region. Israel media said five more rockets hit the Tiberias area later.
Two drones launched early on Monday from the east caused sirens to blare in the central areas of Rishon Lezion and Palmachim, the military said.
Hamas, which carried out a surprise attack on Israel a year ago, meanwhile targeted Tel Aviv with a missile salvo, the group said, setting off sirens in central areas of the occupied territories.
Beirut’s densely populated southern suburbs were again pounded by airstrikes overnight as the Zionist regime extended an aerial campaign on the area.
Israeli airstrikes have displaced 1.2 million people in Lebanon and as the bombing campaign intensifies, many are afraid their country will face the vast scale of destruction wrought on Gaza by Israel’s air and ground onslaught there.
Hezbollah began launching
rockets at Israel on Oct. 8, 2023 in solidarity with Hamas. Israel has carried out ground incursions into Lebanon’s south, which Hezbollah says it has repelled.
An Israeli invasion of Gaza that has largely flattened the densely populated enclave and martyred almost 42,000 people, Palestinian health authorities say.
The Gaza war has given rise to a multi-front Middle East conflict, drawing in the broader “Axis of Resistance” - Hezbollah, Yemen’s Ansarullah, Iraqi resistance groups - and sparking several rare, direct confrontations between Israel and Iran.
Hamas said Monday Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which it launched last year, shattered the regime’s “perceived military superiority.”
Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas member, touched on Iran’s Operation True Promise II last Tuesday, saying it is “reshaping the battlefield”. He likened Iranian missiles to “meteors filling the skies over the occupied Palestine.”
According to a new survey, only 27 percent of Israelis think they have defeated Hamas in its onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
The poll, conducted by Israel’s national broadcaster KAN News and the Kantar Institute, interviewed a sample of 653 Zionists.
The results show that 35 percent think Israel has lost the war against Hamas, while the rest are unsure.
Asked if they would be willing to move to one of the communities in southern occupied territories close to Gaza after the war ends, only 14 percent said they would consider living there, while 86 percent said they were unwilling.
Former and current Israeli military officials have also said they are losing the war on Gaza and Hamas is winning.
Major-General Gadi Shamni, a former commander of the Israeli military’s Gaza division, said in an interview with The New York Times last month that Hamas was winning the war, while Israel was losing, “and in a big way”.
He said the military capabilities of Hamas have undeniably been reduced, but the group still maintains control over Gaza.
Hamas members have been retaking towns across Gaza “15 minutes” after Israeli troops withdrew from them, he added.
A senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, separately told ABC News in September: “We are losing the war, we are losing deterrence, we are losing the hostages.”
Yemen’s Ansarullah said it targeted 193 ships linked to Israel, the U.S. and the UK, and that it launched more than 1,000 missiles and drones in its operations supporting Gaza since the start of the Israeli war on the Strip a year ago.
According to the group’s leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi: “On the Yemeni front, we are continuing our principled, humanitarian, moral, religious and faith-based stance in support of the Palestinian people.”
“Our armed forces targeted 193 ships linked to the Israeli, American and British enemy over the course of a year,” he added.
“On the Yemeni front, over the course of a year, we launched more than 1,000 missiles and drones and used boats in the seas to support Gaza.”
The Ansarullah leader revealed that Yemeni forces “shot down 11 armed American MQ9 drones over the past year.”
“Our military front continues to develop our capabilities, and we seek greater goals,” he added.
Yemeni armed forces began targeting Israel-linked cargo ships in the Red Sea with missiles and drones since last November “in solidarity with Gaza”. It expanded its targets to include American and British-linked vessels after the U.S. and UK launched airstrikes on Yemen in support of Israel.