Statement issued by the Islamic Resistance [Hezbollah]:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought because they were wronged.
Allah Almighty is Truthful
In retaliation for the pure blood of the Guardian of the Muslims, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Imam Sayyed Ali Al-Husseini Al-Khamenei (May Allah’s blessings be upon him), which was unjustly and treacherously shed by the criminal Zionist enemy, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, and within the framework of responding to repeated “Israeli” aggressions, the Islamic Resistance targeted, at midnight between Sunday and Monday, 2 March 2026, with a barrage of qualitative rockets and a swarm of drones, the Mishmar HaCarmel missile defense site belonging to the ‘Israeli” enemy army south of occupied Haifa.
The leadership of the Resistance has always affirmed that the continuation of “Israeli” aggressions and the assassination of our leaders, youth, and people grants us the right to defend and to respond at the appropriate time and place.
The “Israeli” enemy cannot continue its aggression, ongoing for fifteen months, without receiving a warning response aimed at halting this aggression and withdrawing from occupied Lebanese territories.
This response is a legitimate defensive response, and those responsible and concerned must put an end to the Israeli–American aggression against Lebanon.
{And victory is not except from Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.}
Monday, 2-3-2026
12 Ramadan 1447