Smoke billows from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights after a rocket fired from Lebanon caused damage. Photo: RABIH DAHER/AFP
Hezbollah is This week, Lebanese paramilitaries stepped up their offensive on Israel's northern border after invading the Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
On Thursday afternoon, an adapted kamikaze drone with crossed the Lebanese border with two missiles and evaded the Israeli Iron Dome. He fired one S-5 missile, then another, before the drone exploded on the target itself. The attack was Hezbollah's first-ever airstrike, resulting in three Israeli soldiers being wounded.
According to the group, the S-5 missiles attached to the kamikaze drone were 1.4 meters long, 55mm caliber, weighed five kilograms and could travel up to four kilometers. The party said the missiles are unguided, have a high-explosive warhead and can be used by helicopters and combat aircraft.
Throughout the seven-month conflict, Iran-backed Hezbollah, one of the most heavily armed non-state groups in the world, has gradually revealed the secret of its extreme secret military potential.
The use of more advanced weaponry, including drones capable of firing missiles, drone bombs and small types of guided missiles known as Almas or Almaz, has also emerged along with fewer militants operating in the border area as a tactic , allowing to reduce the number of victims faced by the group. the beginning of the conflict.
Hezbollah fighters conduct training exercises in the village of Aaramta in southern Lebanon. Photo: Hassan Ammar/AP
On Friday, Israeli media reported that the first visual evidence of Hezbollah's possession of advanced Iranian anti-aircraft missiles had emerged.
Following an Israeli airstrike in Najariyeh in southern Lebanon, which Israel said targeted Hezbollah targets, footage circulating on social media appeared to show the remains of an Iranian Sayyad-2 surface-to-air missile ” The Telegraph could not immediately confirm where the video was filmed.
Earlier this week, Hezbollah also dealt what the IDF said was its deepest blow yet to Israel, striking a military facility 21 miles from the Lebanese border . The strike, which used three anti-tank guided missiles, was 12 miles deeper than any other strike he had carried out and hit the Sky Dew, a $230 million (£181 million) Israeli radar detection airship.
In response, Israel, which demanded that Hezbollah be removed from its border, continued to launch airstrikes against Hezbollah and Hamas targets in Lebanon, extending from the south to the northeast of the country. At least 82 civilians and more than 300 militants were killed. Israel says 14 soldiers and 11 civilians were killed on its side of the border.
“We will return the people of the North to their homes,” Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense minister, said this week. “We want to take every chance to do this by agreement, because we know that war has a price and we prefer to avoid it.”
Israeli security forces in Kiryat Shmona inspect the site of a rocket fired from Lebanon. Photo: AP
On Friday, Sayed Hashem Safiddin, head of Hezbollah's executive council, warned Israel that the group is again “ready to use new weapons” on the battlefield.
Despite the escalation by Israel and ” Hezbollah,” analysts continue to believe that Israel’s second front is “contained,” although the risk of it escalating into a wider war is rapidly growing. Diplomats are scrambling to end the fighting as Hezbollah vows to continue until the war in Gaza ends.
“We have several options that are guaranteed to succeed and exhaust the enemy,” he said. Mr. Safiddin. . “If the enemy wants to continue the fight, we are ready to use new weapons,” he added.
“This is a time of serious change.”
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