TEHRAN – Hezbollah has intensified its attacks on the Zionist regime, launching non-stop rocket barrages and long-range missiles.

Scores of operations, documented and detailed by the Lebanese resistance movement, have highlighted how its continued prowess challenges military equations with the Israeli regime. 

Hezbollah emphasized that its operations are “In defense of Lebanon and its people, and in response to the enemy’s violation of the ceasefire agreement, after the Resistance had adhered to the ceasefire while the enemy did not.”

The Lebanese resistance movement announced 72 operations on Thursday. This is the largest number of retaliatory attacks on the Zionist regime’s bases, military and settlements since the regime expanded its attacks in Lebanon on March 2. 

The wave of Hezbollah operations on Friday indicates a similar, if not larger, number of attacks by the resistance in the face of the Zionist regime’s aggression, even though Lebanon was included in the ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United States, a key clause that Tehran added on Tuesday.

Among notable operations by Hezbollah are the targeting of 31 settlements and cities, one military point, one military barracks, three border sites and 36 operations confronting advancing Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).

In addition, the weapons used by Hezbollah in these operations included 61 rocket barrages, three artillery shells, two guided and direct missiles, six drones and gliders, one qualitative weapon, and light and medium weaponry.

Furthermore, the Lebanese resistance documented Zionist regime losses that included two trenches and fortifications, 29 settlement units, two bulldozers, one tank, one armored personnel carrier, and three gatherings of Israeli occupation forces.

Following these announcements on Friday, Hezbollah continued its resistance operations targeting a gathering of IOF soldiers in the Al-Khiam detention center with a rocket barrage. 

Other gathering points of IOF soldiers in the courtyard of Al-Marj site and the courtyard of Branit barracks were targeted with loitering drones. In separate operations, IOF soldiers east of al-Khiam detention center and Khirbet Yaroun site were struck with a qualitative missile.

Hezbollah fighters targeted the regime’s military naval base at Ashdod port with qualitative missiles. Another long-range missile was launched that reportedly interrupted operations at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. Hebrew media also reported that long-range missiles were detected being launched from Lebanon toward the Ashdod coastal area.

The infrastructure belonging to the IOF in the city of Safed was damaged by a rocket barrage. 

An IOF Merkava tank was targeted southeast of the al-Khiam detention center with a loitering drone, achieving a direct hit. An IOF artillery bunker in Ne’ot Mordechai settlement was struck with a swarm of loitering drones. An IOF Humvee vehicle in Al-Taybeh town was attacked with a loitering glider, achieving a direct hit.

Hezbollah further announced gathering points for IOF soldiers were targeted in Rashaf town and Wata al-Khiam area with rocket barrages. The IOF’s Ya’ara barracks was struck with a swarm of loitering drones. 

The settlements of Kiryat Shmona (several times), Metula (multiple times), Misgav Am (several times), Dovev, Avivim, among others, were attacked with rocket barrages. Shlomi, Goren and Margaliot settlements were struck with rocket barrages as well as a swarm of loitering drones. The Ghajar site also faced a rocket barrage on Friday. 

This comes as Hezbollah fighters engage the IOF in ongoing clashes on the outskirts of Bint Jbeil, thwarting the IOF’s attempt to capture the town located around four kilometers from the Lebanese border. 

As the Lebanese resistance continues its response to the U.S.-backed Zionist regime’s aggression and its violation of the ceasefire agreement, condemnations have poured in over the regime’s massacre of Lebanese civilians on Wednesday. 

The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that at least 303 people were killed and 1,150 injured in the Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon on Wednesday alone, following what it described as barbaric attacks on the capital Beirut, the south, and the east.

The indiscriminate attacks against Lebanese civilian buildings reportedly took place within a timeframe of ten minutes. 

According to the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF, the bombardments killed 33 children and injured 153 within minutes. UNICEF said the latest bloodshed adds to a “staggering” total of about 600 children killed or injured in Lebanon since March 2.

The deputy spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Farhan Haq, said the UN strongly condemned the attacks on Lebanon “that resulted in significant civilian casualties”.

Ireland’s Foreign Minister, Helen McEntee, said she is “appalled” by the regime’s “brutal attacks across Lebanon” and called for the U.S.-Iran ceasefire to be extended to the country. 

A spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry said “Lebanon’s sovereignty and security should not be violated.”

The European Union said the ?U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement ?should include Lebanon.

Spain’s Foreign Minister echoed those words saying Lebanon must be included in any ceasefire agreement, and France’s President Emmanuel Macron stressed the need to respect the ceasefire in all areas.

Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he spoke to the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and expressed solidarity for the “unjustified and unacceptable attacks Lebanon is suffering from Israel.”

Pakistan described the massacre as undermining peace, and Yemen expressed support for Lebanon and its resistance. The Iraqi government condemned the heinous airstrikes and called on the international community to take responsibility, while Oman also condemned the aggression and called for action to stop the Zionist regime and hold it accountable. 

Qatar’s foreign ministry condemned the “brutal series” of the Israeli attacks. Egypt’s prominent Al-Azhar University said the attacks are a dangerous escalation and a clear violation of international and humanitarian laws.

Hezbollah stated: “With its blind hatred, habitual criminality, and limitless brutality, now an ingrained nature, the enemy committed a series of roaming massacres against safe civilians, launching dozens of savage airstrikes targeting civilian areas”

The Lebanese resistance added that “this barbaric aggression, which at every stage constitutes clear war crimes and acts of genocide through the targeting of densely populated civilian areas, markets, and commercial shops during peak hours, is nothing but a desperate attempt to exact revenge on civilians after the failure of all efforts to break this proud people and subdue them.”

Meanwhile, in a speech on Friday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem stated that the Zionist regime “has failed on the battlefield in confronting the brave heroes of the Resistance. It has been unable to carry out the ground invasion it repeatedly announced. Its soldiers and officers have fallen in the ambushes of the fighters, and its vehicles have been destroyed at the crossroads of towns and villages. It has repeatedly changed its objectives, at times seeking to reach the Litani, at others limited advances, then control by firepower, and again reliance on destruction, yet it has failed, throughout more than forty days of aggression, to stop rockets, shells, and drones from reaching its settlements, near and far, up to Haifa and beyond.”

“For forty days, the enemy has accumulated failure. Its settlements are filled with pain and fear, its plans are confused, and its officials issue daily threats, loud in tone but weak in effect,” he pointed out. 

In an open reference to some Lebanese government officials’ position on talks with the Zionist regime, the Hezbollah Secretary-General stated, “We call on officials to stop making free concessions.” 

“Together, as a state, army, people, and Resistance, we will protect our country, restore its sovereignty, and expel the occupier. Their threats and weapons will not intimidate us; we are the owners of the land, possessing faith, will, and capability to prevent them from achieving their objectives.” Sheikh Naim Qassem emphasized.