Source: Mondoweiss.net
Hezbollah launched a barrage of at least 115 rockets against Israeli targets in retaliation for Israel’s pager and electronics explosion attacks across Lebanon and following the assassination of top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil in Beirut.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, September 22, Hezbollah launched several barrages of rockets on northern Israeli targets in the Haifa region, including a military airbase.
The Lebanese resistance group said in a statement that the salvo of rockets was an “initial response” to the “monstrous massacre perpetrated by the Israeli enemy across Lebanese territory on Tuesday and Wednesday,” referring to the Israeli pager and electronics explosions last week, which claimed the lives of 32 people and injured over 3,000 others.
The Lebanese response also comes two days after Israel’s bombing of Beirut’s southern Dahiya district on Friday that targeted and killed 15 leaders of the Radwan Force, Hezbollah’s elite military unit trained to invade Israeli territory. Among the slain were top Hezbollah commander and founder of the Radwan Force, Ibrahim Aqil.
Hezbollah announced in a statement that its response targeted the Ramat David military airbase southeast of Haifa with Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 rockets manufactured by the Lebanese resistance group. Earlier in July, Hezbollah had aired aerial footage of the airbase identifying it as a potential target in the event of a wider confrontation with Israel.
In another statement on Sunday, the Lebanese resistance group added that it had also targeted the Rafael company, a military electronics manufacturer north of Haifa. Hezbollah reportedly targeted the company’s manufacturing facilities with Fadi-1, Fadi-2, and Katyusha rockets at 6:30 a.m.
As of the time of writing, the Hezbollah retaliation has amounted to some 115 projectiles that have been launched in four volleys, according to Ynet….