Hezbollah Escalates with Rocket and Missile Barrages Towards Israel’s North, IDF Retaliates

By FrumNews.com, with experts from Mrs. Bruria Efune

As war brews in Gaza, Hezbollah terrorists continue to attack Eretz Yisroel from Lebanon. Over the past week, Hezbollah terrorists escalated as they terrorists have launched rocket barrages towards Eretz Yisroel. As usual IDF retaliated with air strikes and artillery fire.

On Tuesday Morning, a back-and-forth escalation with Hezbollah broke out, starting in the morning with Hezbollah anti-tank missiles fired at Avivim, where two missiles hit a the Avivim Winery and set it on fire. Followed by a huge barrage at the IDF military base on Har Meron, of which most were intercepted by the Iron Dome, and no hits were made. The IDF retaliated with an airstrike on a military compound used by Hezbollah’s aerial unit all the way in Northern Lebanon—outside of the Southern Lebanon range where the IDF has been keeping to most of the time.

Footage of the large rocket barrage fired earlier in the northern Israel pic.twitter.com/8NywQqSZx9

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Hezbollah terrorist fired a barrage of 50 rockets at civilian communities in the north. The IDF then carried out an airstrike on another Hezbollah terrorist aerial unit, this time in Baalbek, also deep into Northern Lebanon. They also struck other targets in Southern Lebanon, some slightly expanding the firing range.

On Tuesday night, the Israeli Air Force struck a military building in Southern Lebanon, in which they eliminated a “significant terrorist” along with 6 other terrorists. The IDF says that those eliminated in the attack were planning an imminent and advanced attack on Israel.

Some more footage of the rockets from Lebanon that hit today in Kiryat Shmona https://t.co/CG9F6gO21A pic.twitter.com/2AYAoImDZ8

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On Wednesday morning, Hezbollah fired a barrage of at least 30 missiles at the small northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shemona. Several hits were made, leading to multiple fires, and in one of them, a building that was hit partially fell on its inhabitants, killing one and injuring a second.

The Israeli civilian killed in Kiryat Shemona is named as: Zahar Bashara, 25, of the Druze town of Ein Qiniyye

The IDF responded with multiple airstrikes on targets in Southern Lebanon, in which at least 8 more Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated.

Here is another clip of the rockets being intercepted this morning in northern Israel https://t.co/m4ivKhdJLk pic.twitter.com/2syS5X4cCJ

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Hezbollah continued to escalate on Thursday morning, with nearly nonstop missile fire on Israeli communities in the far north.

In one instance, a Patriot defense missile was seen from Tzfas as it took down a “suspicious aerial target” (likely an attack drone) heading towards Eretz Yisroel from Lebanon. The IDF says that the target was successfully intercepted before it entered Israeli airspace. During the incident, one of the Patriot missiles exploded over northern Eretz Yisroel. The IDF says that the incident is being investigated. The IDF is in the midst of replacing several aging Patriot batteries with the Iron Dome.

The IDF’s response was minimal, with shelling of Hezbollah positions along the border. The IDF also carried out a surprise exercise on Thursday, in preparation for a possible war in the north. The exercise includes all departments and levels of the IDF and may be the reason for today’s reduced activity in the North.

On Friday morning, two launches were identified originating from Ayta ash Shab in southern Lebanon toward Israel, the IDF spokesperson’s unit said.

Escalations like the ones we’ve seen this week have happened before and seem to repeat in a cyclical manner, with Hezbollah reducing attacks to a steady drizzle and the IDF reducing range in response. While the IDF will eventually have to deal with the Hezbollah problem, and diplomacy does not seem to be a possibility, it’s expected that Eretz Yisroel will wait until Hamas is mostly defeated, including in Rafah, so as to avoid a two-front war.

Hezbollah is facing some resistance within Lebanon, for example, residents of the predominantly Christian Arab town of Rmeish in south Lebanon, prohibited Hezbollah terrorists from launching rockets on Eretz Yisroel from their town for fear of reprisal.

An Iron Dome missile was fired to intercept an unknown aerial target near Tzfat (Safed)

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