Two Contrasting Narratives: Hezbollah and Israel in the Biggest Confrontation Since the Beginning of the War | News

Advertise Hezbollah He successfully completed the first phase of the response to the assassination of the party's military leader. Fouad ShukrIsraeli sources also confirmed that the operation on the Israeli side has ended, while everyone is waiting to see what the Secretary-General of Hezbollah will reveal. Hassan Nasrallah This evening regarding the qualitative military target that the party said it targeted in today's operation.

The new unprecedented escalation since the beginning of the war between the party and Israel continued for hours, during which the party launched about 320 missiles and drones towards various areas of Israel, while Israel launched about 50 raids on southern Lebanon, in which about 100 warplanes participated.

While the nature of the targets and sites targeted by Hezbollah’s bombing has not yet been clearly revealed, the accounts provided by both parties regarding what happened conflicted, as follows:

First: Hezbollah's narrative

Hezbollah issued three statements in the past few hours, in which it provided a brief account of the military operation, which it said came as an initial response to the assassination of the party’s military commander, Fouad Shukr. It also announced a speech that the party’s secretary-general will deliver this evening, in which he will provide details of what happened and detail what the party’s military statements summarized.

The most important thing mentioned in these statements that came in succession:

• In the first statement, the party said that its fighters had launched an air attack with a large number of drones towards the Zionist depth and towards a qualitative Israeli military target that would be announced later.
• He said that at the same time, the party's fighters targeted a number of enemy sites, barracks, and Iron Dome platforms in northern occupied Palestine with a large number of missiles.
• He stressed that these military operations will take some time to complete, after which a detailed statement will be issued about their progress and objectives.
• He also stressed that the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon is now, and at this moment, at its highest level of readiness and will stand firmly and vigilantly against any Zionist transgression or aggression, especially if civilians are harmed, as the punishment will be very severe and harsh.
• In the second statement, the party announced that the first phase of the military response to the assassination of Fouad Shukr had been completed with complete success.
• The party added that at this stage, “Zionist barracks and sites were targeted to facilitate the passage of the offensive marches towards their desired target deep inside the entity, and the marches, thank God, passed as planned,” according to what was stated in the statement.
• In this statement, the party revealed the sites it targeted and the number of rockets it launched, confirming that “the number of Katyusha rockets it launched exceeded 320 rockets towards enemy sites,” noting that it targeted 11 sites, namely the Meron base, the Naveh Ziv base, the Za'tun base, the Za'oura bases, the Sahel base, the Kela barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan, the Yoav barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan, the Nafah base in the occupied Syrian Golan, the Yarden base in the occupied Syrian Golan, the Ein Ze'e Tim base, and the Ramot Naftali barracks.
• The party's third statement came to confirm that its operation was “completed and accomplished,” in response to Israel's claims that the attack planned by the party had been thwarted.
• The party added that “all offensive drones were launched at the specified times and from all their positions, and crossed the Lebanese-Palestinian border towards the desired target from multiple paths.”
• The party also stressed that the enemy's claims about the preemptive action it carried out, the targets it achieved, and its disruption of the resistance's attack are empty claims that contradict the facts on the ground, and they will be refuted in a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, which will be determined later today, according to what was stated in the statement.

The Israeli Novel

In contrast, Israel, from the first hour of the operation, rushed to present a narrative contradicting the narrative presented by Hezbollah, about today’s developments.

• The Israeli military said it thwarted a much larger attack by launching preemptive strikes after anticipating that Hezbollah was preparing to launch a barrage of rockets.
• The Israeli military confirmed in a statement that about 100 Israeli aircraft struck more than 40 Hezbollah launch sites in southern Lebanon shortly before the group's strikes, destroying thousands of rocket launchers that were mainly targeting northern Israel with some targets in the center.
• An Israeli military spokesman said most of the Israeli strikes hit targets in southern Lebanon, but the army was prepared to strike anywhere there was a threat.
• Meanwhile, the Israeli military issued civil defense instructions in areas from central Israel to the north, restricting gatherings but allowing residents to go to work if airstrike shelters could be reached quickly.
• Israel's Army Radio quoted defense officials as saying that the military believes the barrage launched by Hezbollah on northern Israel was “unplanned,” following a preemptive strike by Israeli fighter jets on Hezbollah launch sites.