Hezbollah Launches 20 Rocket and Drone Attacks on IDF Troop Concentrations in Northern Israel
The Hezbollah militant group, on Saturday (8 March 2026), said it had launched 20 rocket and drone attacks against several Israeli military sites and concentrations of troops in the northern part of Israel. The Lebanon-based group said in a series of statements monitored by Anadolu that the attacks were carried out in response to Israeli strikes on dozens of towns and villages in Lebanon, including areas in the southern outskirts of Beirut.
One of the targets was the city of Nahariya in northern Israel. Hezbollah said it launched three waves of rocket attacks and a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles that roamed about after warning residents to leave the area.
Earlier on Saturday, the group also urged residents of Nahariya and Kiryat Shmona to evacuate the area and move south. The warning was issued via Telegram, accompanied by a map of the two towns.
Hezbollah also said it had targeted the Iron Dome radar system at Kiryat Eliezer, which they described as one of Haifa’s main air defence bases in northern Israel. Other attacks included rocket fire and drone strikes on the cities of Haifa and Kiryat Shmona, as well as the Stella Maris base and the Rafael industrial complex near the city of Acre, according to the group.
The Hezbollah also reported strikes against several Israeli military positions near the Lebanon border, including troop concentrations around Khiam and Hamamis Hill in southern Lebanon. Additional strikes also targeted military positions around the Fatima Gate crossing on the Lebanon-Israel border and the Ein Zeitim base northwest of Safed, the group said.
Hezbollah also said it fired a ‘precision missile’ toward the Tel Hashomer base, about 120 kilometres from the Lebanon border. The Israeli military acknowledged that a nighttime special forces operation in eastern Lebanon to locate the remains of missing navigator Ron Arad did not succeed.
This development comes amid an expanding Israeli military campaign in Lebanon since Monday, following limited rocket fire by Hezbollah amid mounting regional tensions triggered by the war sparked by Israeli and US military actions against Iran.
Israel has killed more than 4,000 people and wounded about 17,000 others in the Lebanon campaign that began in October 2023 and escalated into full-scale war by September 2024. Although a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah has existed since November 2024, the Zionist regime’s US-backed military continues to violate it, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries.