The Iraqi Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba resistance movement has claimed responsibility for the missile attack against Haifa, declaring that Israel should await more crippling attacks in retaliation for its bloody war on Gaza.
Spokesman for the movement, Hussein al-Moussawi, told Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news network on Monday that the retaliatory strike conveyed a clear message to Israeli authorities that the Axis of Resistance will never abandon its strategic goals in the West Asia region.
“Resistance fighters are fairly capable of striking areas [deep inside the occupied lands] beyond Haifa,” Moussawi noted.
The senior Nujaba official emphasized that the Haifa strike was not an accident, but rather, falls within a well-developed and audacious plan to confront the actions of the United States and the Israeli regime.
“The Axis of Resistance is determined to disrupt US scenarios in the region and thwart the occupying Israeli regime’s schemes in Gaza,” Moussawi asserted.
Moussawi also underlined that the resistance front is capable of withstanding the ongoing battle for a long time because of its resources and military potentials.
Rockets target US-occupied base in Syria
Moreover, a barrage of rockets targeted a US-run military facility at the al-Omar oil field in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Al-Mayadeen television news channel, citing an unnamed local source, reported that nearly 30 rockets targeted the installation on Monday.
The source said that the attack was in response to the US strike on a truck passing through al-Qa’im border crossing, which connects the town of Abu Kamal in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr province to the city of Husaybah in the al-Qa’im district of Iraq’s western province of Anbar.
The source stressed that the rocket strike against the US-occupied military base came from nearby areas.
The United States, Israel’s biggest ally, has provided the regime with a raft of arms and ammunition since the initiation of the Gaza war.
Washington has also vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire.
Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after Palestinian resistance groups carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories in response to the occupying regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry, more than 22,835 Palestinians have been killed in the strikes, most of them women and children, and another 58,416 individuals injured.
Tel Aviv has also imposed a “complete siege” on Gaza, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
