Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has announced the start of a new phase in its retaliatory operations against Israel, which has been conducting strikes on Lebanon and Gaza for more than a year.
In a statement issued early on Friday, the Operations Room of Hezbollah announced “the transition to a new and escalating phase in the confrontation with the Israeli enemy.”
According to the statement, the decision was made “based on the directives of the Resistance Command.”
The new phase “will be reflected in the developments and events of the coming days”, it said.
The statement noted that Hezbollah has so far inflicted heavy losses on the Israeli forces along the front lines in southern Lebanon and deep inside the Israeli-occupied territories.
Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.
Since late September, Israel has escalated its strikes against Hezbollah, assassinating its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of its senior figures.
At least 2,350 people have been killed by Israeli fire, and 10,906 others wounded since the clashes began last year, according to the health ministry.
The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed at least 42,438 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
