Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 2023.    (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Tel Aviv, August 26 (RHC)-- Israel has banned coverage of the damage inflicted by Hezbollah strikes deep inside the occupied territories early August 25th, Western media say. 

The Telegraph, quoting sources, reported that the Benjamin Netanyahu regime issued a censorship decree, requiring reporters to obtain permission before publishing “damage caused by rocket attacks to strategic infrastructure or to military bases” to avoid “harm to Israeli forces on the ground.“

According to a report by the state-run British media outlet BBC, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah, is expected to produce evidence that rockets hit targets in Israel.

Nasrallah in a televised speech broadcast live hours after the strikes stated that the regime was desperately attempting to cover up the losses inflicted upon it as a result of the retaliatory Resistance operation.

The Resistance fired hundreds of rockets and drones toward Israel in retaliation for the July 30 assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.  Nasrallah stated that Hezbollah delayed its retaliatory operation against Israel over the Gaza ceasefire talks in an attempt to see an end to the Israeli campaign of genocide in the besieged Palestinian territory.

He said Hezbollah did not target civilians in its retaliatory strikes.  An Israeli naval boat was among the targets hit by Hezbollah rockets where at least one soldier was killed and two others were wounded.  Hezbollah conducted the strikes after Israel carried out what it called a pre-emptive attack on southern Lebanon. 

Meanwhile, Netanyahu has called a cabinet meeting to discuss Hezbollah’s strikes.  The regime has also declared a 48-hour state of emergency, as authorities ordered all universities and beaches in the port city of Haifa to be closed until further notice.