SANA'A - Saba: In response to the ongoing crimes of the Zionist enemy against the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples and as part of the battle to support Gaza Strip, Lebanon's Hezbollah launched a new phase - that is "The Open Account" battle - with its first rule is "Haifa versus the Lebanese depth."
This comes in response to the Zionist enemy's targeting the Lebanese depth, blowing up Hezbollah's telecom devices and assassinating Commander "Aqil" and the leaders of the "Radwan Unit", and after the threats of the Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said on Sunday that his entity had dealt blows to Hezbollah which it did not imagine, threatening to deliver more "if it does not understand the message."
At dawn on Sunday, Hezbollah bombed Zionist military sites in the city of Haifa with missiles for the first time since the beginning of the confrontations, leaving a number of Zionists wounded, great material damages, and unparalleled terror among Zionists, according to Zionist media.
The Zionist enemy army bombed about 16 towns in south Lebanon - leaving dozens of civilians martyred or injured - and renewed the bombing on Monday, in the "most extensive and violent" air strikes launched by the enemy army on Lebanon since the beginning of the confrontations with Hezbollah last October (in parallel with the Zionist persistently devastating war on Gaza Strip) which resulted in the martyrdom of more than 400 Lebanese citizens and the injury of more than 400 others.
This came after Hezbollah on Sunday expanded the circle of fire and targeted the occupied area of Haifa, on which missiles fell in response to the Zionist assault targeting the Lebanese depth and blowing up Hezbollah's telecom devices, thus inaugurating the start of a new phase entitled "The Open Account" battle, with its first rule is "Haifa versus the Lebanese depth."
Hezbollah's response, which hit the base of Ramat David in Haifa - one of the three most important key bases in the usurping entity - beyond any doubt told the enemy that the resistance still enjoys high capacity, vitality and flexibility on the ground, although the enemy targeted the staff commander of Hezbollah's operations, Ibrahim Aqil (or Hajj Abdul Qader), and 13 leaders of the Radwan Unit.
With Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles, this Lebanese response also proved that Hezbollah's missile capabilities are still at full strength, which the enemy recently claimed to have damaged thousands of them during its intensive air strikes targeting South Lebanon and Bekaa regions, and that the confrontation with Hezbollah has entered a new phase called "The Open Account".
This is confirmed by statements of Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary-General of, Sheikh Naim Qassem, late on Sunday during the funeral of Hezbollah's leaders who were martyred in the Zionist cowardly raid on the southern suburb of Beirut. He said "we have become stronger and the field will witness this.. The enemy will die of terror and its assembly will disintegrate without achieving its objectives."
Sheikh Qassem stated that Hezbollah had launched "The Open Account" battle in resisting the Zionist enemy, and that the first payment on the account caused a major shock in the enemy entity. He added that the displaced Zionists would not return to the north of the occupier entity.
"The Lebanese supporting front will continue, no matter how long it takes, until the war on Gaza stops.. The residents of the north in the occupied lands of Palestine won't return, but rather displacement will increase and support will expand, so go to Gaza and stop the war," Qassem said.
Regarding Martyr Ibrahim Aqil, Sheikh Qassem said: "He was the commander of operations and founded the Radwan Unit. He is a martyr of Quds and Palestine, the most prestigious arenas of jihad."
On Friday, the Zionist enemy launched an airstrike on a residential building in the southern suburb of Beirut, killing 45 people - including children, women and Aqil - and wounding 68 others, according to Lebanese Health Ministry's initiative figures.
Sheikh Qassem stated that Hezbollah is ready to tackle "all the military possibilities, and you will see the results.. We have made a payment on the account, and three rocket barrages reached the Haifa area (north the occupied lands of Palestine) and hit their military targets."
He added that: "We won't define how to respond to the aggression, as we have entered a new phase called 'The Open Account' battle." He noted that, with the plans being prepared by Hezbollah for it, Israel "will die of terror."
Sheikh Qassem said "the enemy has not been able to achieve its objectives in Palestine and the resistance continues," noting that "America is involved in aggression and genocide with Israel, and the deception it practices is of no use."
Ismat Mansour, specialist in Zionist affairs, said that the Zionist enemy's calculations on its front with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon differ from those on Gaza front, as "it wants calm there, to bring its settlers back to the north and to weaken Hezbollah."
In statements carried by the Palestine Today News Agency, Mansour expressed his belief that "all readings indicate that the equation is in favor of Hezbollah in terms of strength, deterrence, and the incubating environment in Lebanon." He also thinks that "Hezbollah enjoys good management, advanced capabilities, in addition to diverse geography that helps in fighting on the ground."
"Hezbollah has the vision, ability to understand the enemy and the lead," Mansour said, adding that Hezbollah "cannot be stripped of the lead.. and the ongoing confrontation between the Zionist enemy and Hezbollah aims to make the price and cost of the northern front exorbitant, and to push the Hezbollah to respond to the proposed solutions."
For Ahmed Salama, a writer and researcher in Zionist affairs, "The Open Account" battle launched by Hezbollah is a major strategic development in the course of the war on the Northern Front. In a special interview with Palestine Today, he said "its high flexibility in combat, in addition to its great capabilities and diversity in missiles, proved that Hezbollah still has the lead."
He stated that Hezbollah is still hiding more surprises for the Zionist enemy, in response to the assassination of Commander Aqil and the leaders of the Radwan Unit. He sees that "Hezbollah, by bombing the city of Haifa on Sunday, has established an important rule (in response to the bombing of its telecom devices) that is 'Haifa versus the Lebanese depth'."
"The Zionist enemy seeks, through these strikes, to keep the supporting front in Lebanon away from its work alongside the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, as part of the Aqsa Flood battle, which is absolutely rejected by Hezbollah," he said.
Member of the Lebanese Loyalty for Resistance bloc, MP Hassan Fadlallah, said "the enemy wants to paralyze the capabilities of the resistance in order to prevent it from completing its support for Gaza, but the response came quickly and successively - first in the form of constant support for Gaza, which was confirmed by the resistance statements issued at dawn on Monday. The second indicator of this response was that Hezbollah has not left any vacuum in the leadership structure of the resistance even for a single day. In fact, there was no vacuum for one day in any of the resistance sites whose field leaders were martyred, as it rushed to absorb this assault and its results."
Fadlallah said the "Operation Fajr targeted military facilities, factories and the air base, which the enemy considers one of its glories. According to its data, the resistance's missiles reached this base and delivered direct hits, despite the enemy's claim all the day and night (on Sunday) that it was carrying out a preemptive operation as it did in Operation 40, but it was unable to prevent the resistance's response."
Media of the Zionist enemy reported that the streets of the occupied city of Haifa were empty of settlers, following the missile attack launched by Hezbollah on Sunday, noting that the missile attack affected the city immediately.
In the meantime, the authorities of the Zionist enemy in Haifa announced the cancellation of education on Tuesday, and the settlers of Ein Zivan in the Syrian occupied heights of Golan and Kiryat Shmona north the occupied lands of Palestine, received instructions to stay near shelters until further notice.
It is noteworthy that the head of the local authority in the settlement of Kiryat Bialik north the occupied city of Haifa, stated that the settlers had indeed feared they would be hit by Hezbollah's missile. He expressed concerns that they would suffer the same experience as the settlers in the north, "as there are not enough shelters for them."
Zionist media also reported a "danger to the lives" of the settlers, as some settlers of Kiryat Tivon complained that the shelters they fled to for protection were closed.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday described the coming days as "complicated". He said, from the main control room in the ministry of war in Tel Aviv, "we are on the cusp of complicated days," hinting at the escalation of war and Lebanese attacks towards the occupied territories. It is worth noting that spokesman for the Zionist enemy government said on Monday that Hezbollah has fired nine thousand rockets towards Israel since October 7th. He added that the Hezbollah's rockets have led to huge losses "north Israel".
