The Military Media of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah released Tuesday footage showing its reconnaissance drones flying over swathes of occupied Palestinian land, including Kiryat Shmona, Nahariya, Safad, Karmiel, Afula, all the way to Haifa and its port.
Titled “This is what the Hoopoe came back with,” the nine-minute-and-a-half video captured footage and exposed sensitive Zionist sites. Hezbollah indicated that the video was only the first episode of more yet to come, highlighting that the drones bypassed Zionist air defenses and returned to Lebanese airspace undetected.
The published footage included intelligence about Zionist sites inside occupied Palestine and clearly showed that the drone arrived at the port of Haifa intact. Hezbollah’s drones brought back footage and information about sensitive sites they captured over Haifa starting with the port itself to oil refineries and military factories, not to mention the locations of military battleships and important economic hubs in the port.
Rafael military-industrial complex
In detail, the video first shows Hezbollah’s drones flying over a military-industrial complex belonging to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, which includes numerous factories, warehouses, and testing fields in which components of air defense systems are manufactured and assembled, especially the Iron Dome and David’s Sling.
Iron Dome and David’s Sling platforms, rocket engine test tunnel and storage, air defense missile storage, missile component manufacturing facilities, control and guidance systems factories, company administrative buildings, and missile testing radars all appeared in the video.
According to Hezbollah, the area is highly vital and sensitive, occupies an area of around 6.5 km2, and is 24 km away from the Lebanese-Palestinian border.
Krayot
The video also included an overview of Krayot, a Zionist suburb north of occupied Haifa, which includes six occupied cities with a population of 260,000 settlers. Hezbollah published a complete high-definition view of the urban conglomeration there, with a real-time tour detailing Krayot districts and neighborhoods, including residences of Zionist official residences and commercial complexes.
The scenes also filmed the Yitzhak Ben-Tzvi Street, Karti Square, Savyonei Yam complex, and Abraham Gardens towers.
Haifa Port Area
In addition, the Islamic Resistance’s drones reached occupied Haifa’s port — the largest in the occupied territories — and captured footage of the Haifa port Bay area, a highly valuable economic and trade area that hosts massive military installations, industrial infrastructure, and commercial areas.
The area includes the Haifa military base, which is the main naval base for the occupation forces, which is responsible for the northern naval front, as well as Iron Dome storage and platforms, petrochemical facilities, oil silos, the Haifa power station, and Haifa airport.
The Haifa Port area includes ship maintenance hangars, the building of Unit 3800 at Haifa Naval Base, the main warehouse and supply section at the Haifa Base dockyard, the Yaltam Unit building, submarine unit buildings, submarine dock and mooring, and the Sheyetet 7 submarine unit command building.
In addition, Hezbollah’s video filmed the Karmiel and Mizrahi piers, as well as container ships and port operations.
Warships filmed comprised military vessels, including the Bat Yam logistical support ship, Sa’ar 4.5, 5, and 6 boats, and the Dvora-class fast patrol boat.
Hezbollah’s video unveiled dozens of “super vital” targets
Major General Wasif Arikat described what Hezbollah revealed in the latest video as the “most valuable bank of targets.”
He said that the message behind the video has been received, adding that what is happening now is not a field war but a war of awareness that proved that the occupation army, once described as the “invincible army”, has been defeated and retreated.
On his part, Brigadier General Mohammad Abbas said that Hezbollah’s drones surpassed all air defense systems and returned without being detected by Zionist systems.
He highlighted that the video unveiled dozens of “super vital” targets, demonstrating that the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon possesses highly advanced capabilities.
Brigadier General Abbas further explained that the name “Hoopoe”, which is a type of bird, reflects the long distance that Hezbollah’s drones traveled in occupied Palestinian lands before returning with such valuable scenes.
Zionist media described what Hezbollah’s drones documented as “disturbing” and “very dangerous”.
Palestinian Resistance continues joint operations
Within the framework of the ongoing operations of the Palestinian Resistance factions against the Zionist forces invading the Gaza Strip, the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, targeted the occupation forces stationed at the Tal al-Sultan site in Rafah with heavy mortar shells.
The al-Qassam Brigades also targeted a Merkava tank with an al-Yassin 105 rocket near the al-Jawazat Roundabout east of Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip.
Additionally, al-Qassam released footage showing their fighters engaging Zionist forces positioned at the Netzarim axis with short-range Rajum rockets of 114 mm caliber.
Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, shelled a military position along the supply route at the Netzarim axis south of Gaza City with mortar shells.
The Brigades also targeted the military sites Karem Abu Salem and Sufa, east of Rafah, with heavy mortars.
Moreover, the al-Quds Brigades simultaneously bombarded a command center and troop positions with 107 rockets and mortars in the southern Saudi neighborhood and Tal al-Sultan west of Rafah.
On its part, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced that its fighters shelled Zionist troop gatherings and military vehicles in the southern Tal al-Sultan neighborhood.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades released a video showing its rocket and artillery attacks on Zionist positions at the Netzarim axis on the first day of the Eid al-Adha Islamic holiday on Sunday.
Similarly, the al-Mujahideen Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian al-Mujahideen movement, also targeted the Zionist command center at Netzarim with rocket fire.
The Brigades published footage showing its rocket attack on the Zionist Gaza Division command site at Re’im.
In addition, the al-Asifa Forces announced that its fighters shelled the army command center at the Netzarim axis south of Gaza City with 107 mm rockets.
In a demonstration of cooperation among various military wings of the Palestinian resistance factions, the al-Quds Brigades and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades jointly shelled the command center and soldiers positioned at Netzarim with a barrage of 60mm mortars.
In another joint operation, the al-Quds Brigades, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades targeted Zionist troops at the Abu Mutebeq military site, east of the central governorate, with 120 mm mortars.
The al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades and the al-Quds Brigades also announced they shelled Zionist vehicles and soldiers at the Abu Mutebeq military site, east of the central governorate, with heavy mortars.
In the same context, the Military Media of the al-Qassam Brigades published footage of its fighters targeting the Kissufim site east of the central governorate with 107mm rockets, in cooperation with the fighters of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Similarly, the Military Media of the al-Quds Brigades released footage of its rocket attack on Kissufim, in coordination with the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades.
Zionist media reported that sirens sounded in the Karem Abu Salem area in the Gaza Envelope. Earlier, the media confirmed that a helicopter transporting wounded military personnel from Gaza landed at Beilinson Hospital.
As the Palestinian Resistance continues to confront the advancing occupation forces in Gaza and inflict heavy casualties and equipment losses, the Zionist military admitted on Sunday to the killing of two soldiers and the wounding of three others, including an officer, in battles in the southern Gaza Strip.
With the announcement, the number of soldiers killed this month reached 19, including 18 in the Gaza Strip, and the total number of troops killed since October 7 reached 664, including 314 since the start of the ground invasion of Gaza, as per Zionist figures which are notoriously skewed and inaccurate.