Why are the Golan Heights becoming Hezbollah’s favorite target?
For several weeks now, Hezbollah has been concentrating its strikes on this occupied sector, and the video it recently released shows drone footage there.
A site in flames after Hezbollah strikes on Israeli military posts, Mount Hermon, July 4, 2024. (Credit: Rami Shlush/Reuters)
Hezbollah delivered the second strong message of its kind. It released on Tuesday a six-minute video showing several strategic Israeli positions in the Syrian Golan Heights, a large part of which Israel occupied in 1967 and subsequently annexed. Read also Lebanese Army vehicle hit by machine gun fire from Golan heights The first footage Hezbollah filmed 28 days ago by a drone nicknamed al-Hodhod (Arabic for hoopoe, Israel’s national bird), revealed several sensitive centers in Haifa. Just like the first video, this one from the Golan Heights is also designed to warn Israel that its military equipment and facilities are within Hezbollah’s reach.Yet, while Hezbollah has so far refrained from targeting Haifa, a city with ammonium plants and home to more than 280,000 Israelis, the Golan Heights seem to have become its favorite target...
Hezbollah delivered the second strong message of its kind. It released on Tuesday a six-minute video showing several strategic Israeli positions in the Syrian Golan Heights, a large part of which Israel occupied in 1967 and subsequently annexed. Read also Lebanese Army vehicle hit by machine gun fire from Golan heights The first footage Hezbollah filmed 28 days ago by a drone nicknamed al-Hodhod (Arabic for hoopoe, Israel’s national bird), revealed several sensitive centers in Haifa. Just like the first video, this one from the Golan Heights is also designed to warn Israel that its military equipment and facilities are within Hezbollah’s reach.Yet, while Hezbollah has so far refrained from targeting Haifa, a city with ammonium plants and home to more than 280,000 Israelis, the Golan Heights seem to have become its favorite...
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