Hezbollah pounds Israeli air surveillance base with 62 missiles
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance group says it has hit an Israeli air surveillance base with scores of missiles in its first response to Tel Aviv’s assassination of a deputy political leader of Hamas.
“At 08:10 AM on Saturday, January 6, 2024, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance targeted the Meron Air Surveillance Base with 62 missiles of various types, inflicting direct and confirmed hits,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
The movement described the operation “as a preliminary response” to the Israeli assassination of “great leader Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri and his martyr brothers” in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh.
According to the statement, the base is the sole center for administration, surveillance, and air control in the northern occupied territories.
“It is one of two principal bases in the entire usurping entity, the other being Mitzpe Ramon in the south,” it said.
Earlier, sirens were sounded in northern Israeli cities, warning residents of incoming rockets, media reports said Saturday.
The cities of Shtula, Abirim, Netu’a, Karmiel, Safed were among 94 settlements in Galilee and the occupied Golan Heights put on alert Saturday, they said.
