—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: In a statement, Hezbollah says today's strike was a 'warning response', in retaliation to the martyrdom of Ayatollah Khamenei as well as the violation of the ceasefire for more than 15 months

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 Full statement by Hezbollah:

'In retaliation for the pure blood of the Leader of the Muslims, His Eminence Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, may Allah sanctify his soul, which was shed unjustly at the hands of the criminal Zionist enemy, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, and in response to the repeated Israeli aggressions:

The Islamic Resistance targeted the Mishmar Karmel missile defense site of the Israeli enemy army south of the occupied city of Haifa in the middle of the night between Sunday and Monday, March 2nd, 2026, with a barrage of precision missiles and a swarm of drones.

The Resistance leadership has long emphasized that the continuation of Israeli aggressions and the assassination of our leaders, youth, and people give us the right to defend ourselves and respond at the appropriate time and place.

The Israeli enemy cannot continue its aggression that has lasted for fifteen months without receiving a warning response to stop this aggression and withdraw from the occupied Lebanese territories.

This response is a legitimate defensive one, and it is the responsibility of the officials and concerned parties to put an end to the Israeli-American aggression against Lebanon.'

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