Hezbollah launched several operations against Israeli forces and military sites

Hezbollah launched several operations against Israeli forces and military sites on 19 August, including an attack to prevent infiltrating troops into south Lebanon.

“After monitoring and following up on the presence of Israeli enemy forces, and upon observing the infiltration of a group of its soldiers into the Hadab Aita forest, the Islamic Resistance fighters confronted them on Monday 8-19-2024 and targeted them with rockets and artillery shells, which forced them to retreat and inflicted confirmed casualties on them,” Hezbollah said during the early hours of 19 August, marking its first operation of the week.

“In response to the attack and assassination carried out by the Israeli enemy in the Qadmus area, the Islamic Resistance fighters launched a simultaneous air attack on Monday 8-19-2024 with squadrons of suicide drones on the Yara barracks (the headquarters of the Western Brigade 300) and the Sanat Jin base (a logistical base affiliated with the Northern Region Command),” Hezbollah said on Monday.

The attack “targeted the locations of their officers and soldiers – hitting their targets accurately and inflicting a number of deaths and injuries among them,” the statement added.

Hebrew news site Ynet said at least three drones entered the Galilee, some being intercepted and others exploding, causing casualties in the Yara area.

The Israeli army said one was soldier was killed and several wounded, including one seriously, in the Yara barracks.

Hezbollah also announced an artillery and rocket attack on troop deployments in Israel’s Zarit barracks, “leading to destruction and the outbreak of fires in it,” the resistance group said in its second statement of the day.

The Lebanese resistance said earlier on Monday that its fighters prevented an Israeli force from infiltrating into the south of Lebanon.

Hezbollah announced on Sunday the death of Fadi Qassem Kanaan, a member of the Lebanese Resistance Brigades – a multi-confessional brigade founded by Hezbollah in the late 1990s, which has been taking part in operations against Israel.

Israel’s allies have been scrambling to prevent Iran and Hezbollah from retaliating for the Israeli attacks on their capitals last month. The assassination of top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut on 30 July killed several civilians, including children.

Washington has expressed hope that reaching an agreement to end the war in Gaza could stymie an incoming response and avoid a larger-scale regional war. Ceasefire talks – which took place in Qatar on Friday – ended without any progress, as Hamas opted out of this latest round due to constant obstruction and procrastination from Netanyahu.

Hezbollah has repeatedly vowed that it will not stop operations until the war in Gaza ends and has promised a harsh retaliation to Shukr’s assassination in the Lebanese capital.