Hezbollah Launches New Hoopoe Operation

The Military Media of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah released on Wednesday aerial footage of the Zionist military airbase captured by its drones north of occupied Palestine on Tuesday, marking the third video of the series that it named, “This is what the Hoopoe came back with.”

The special episode showed the Ramat David Airbase, the only Zionist military airbase in northern occupied Palestine, which is 46 kilometers from the Lebanese border.

The video captured by the Hoopoe drone, which successfully evaded Zionist surveillance ad interception systems for the third time, showed all the facilities associated with the Ramat David airbase.

According to the Military Media, the airbase includes the Eizar Weissman Base, codenamed “Wing Number 1.”

Hezbollah provided detailed information about the airbase, particularly its aerial specializations and military formations; fighter jets and helicopters, transport and rescue helicopters, naval surveillance helicopters, and electronic warfare offensive systems.

Notably, the video exposed the base’s command building and its officials, including its current commander, Colonel Asaf Eishd, in addition to officers’ residences, the fortified command building, and the command and control center.

Among the most prominent revelations from the Hoopoe footage were the locations of Iron Dome platforms within the base, ammunition storage, squadron command centers and garages, preparation centers and technical sections, air navigation radar domes, maintenance sections, and fuel pods for fighter jets.

Elsewhere, the footage also showed a night scan of the Israeli airbase.

Hezbollah ended the special episode with the phrase “[Israel is] weaker than a spider’s web,” which the Lebanese Resistance group’s Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said at the celebration of the liberation of southern Lebanon from the Israeli occupation on May 25, 2000.

Below we are publising a PFLP communique in full!

Hezbollah’s announcement of the “Hoopoe 3” operations is a new blow to the zionist security system and an enhancement to deterrence capabilities.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praises the announcement by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, Hezbollah, of showing video clips from the Hoopoe 3 aircraft, which carried out reconnaissance operations over the “Ramat David” airbase of the zionist entity.

The Front considers this new reconnaissance operation an important intelligence achievement that reflects the success of the resistance in Lebanon in penetrating the zionist depths for a third time. It is also a strategic addition to the resistance’s weapon of deterrence, and once again shows the weakness and fragility of the zionist system.

This new operation comes as a new blow to the zionist security system, and is considered additional evidence of the ability of the resistance in Lebanon to reach all military and logistical sites of the occupation.

We expect that the resistance in Lebanon will have more reconnaissance intelligence operations for sites in the occupation through the use of the “Hoopoe 3” aircraft, which will surprise the enemy.

With this new revelation of “Hoopoe 3,” the resistance is revealing only a small part of its intelligence reconnaissance operations, which confirms that it has a large number of targets for vital and strategic locations in the entity that it will not publish.

These operations are part of the process of exhausting the zionist enemy, using all new capabilities in the service of striking the enemy everywhere.

The resistance support fronts will continue to operate efficiently and with a strong presence to exhaust the zionist enemy, and will continue to support the resistance in Palestine with all the capabilities, information, and weapons they possess.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
24 July 2024