Hezbollah Announces Devoured Straw, Iran Presses Military Advantage
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah has announced Operation Devoured Straw in response to the zionist aggression against its homeland and people.
The name originates from a verse in the Holy Qur’an from Surah al-Fil (The Elephant), and refers to a famous event in pre-Islamic Arabia known as “The Year of the Elephant.”
1 Have you not regarded how your Lord dealt
with the Men of the Elephant?
2 Did He not make their stratagems go awry,
3 and send against them flocks of birds
4 pelting them with stones of shale,
5 thus making them like devoured (chewed-up) straw?
That year, an army led by Abraha, the ruler of Yemen under the Aksumite Kingdom, marched toward Mecca with war elephants to destroy the Kaaba and redirect pilgrimage to Sanaa. As the army approached the city, the Quran recounts that God intervened, sending flocks of birds that struck the invaders with stones, causing their army to collapse and their campaign to fail.
The episode became a powerful symbol in Islamic memory, showing that the Kaaba was protected not by armies, but by divine intervention. The event occurred the year of Prophet Muhammad’s birth, and the story underscores a central Quranic theme: overwhelming power and military might cannot prevail against divine will or justice.
Hezbollah unleashes 100+ missiles
Right upon announcing the operation, Hezbollah launched at least 100 missiles targeting northern occupied Palestine.
Sirens blared across northern settlements and also in the center of the occupation as two waves of Iranian missiles were detected.
At the same time, zionisti media reported a fresh round of alarms in the occupied north amid a drone attack from Lebanon, particularly in the occupied Golan Heights, Metulla, and Misgav Am.
Direct impact was reported as missiles pounded the Israeli occupation.
Resistance coordinates missile attacks
Zionist media outlets reported on Thursday at dawn that missiles were launched simultaneously from Iran and Lebanon toward the occupied Palestinian territories, triggering widespread air raid sirens across the area.
According to the reports, missiles launched from Lebanon targeted northern settlements, while missiles fired from Iran struck central and southern regions.
Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Eilat, and surrounding areas, with reports indicating confusion in the warning system as alarms were activated in locations far from the expected impact zones.
Israeli media reported that a missile fell in the occupied city of Haifa, while other projectiles launched from Lebanon struck the Zichron Yaakov area south of Haifa. Another missile reportedly hit Herzliya in central occupied Palestine, according to Israeli reports.
Emergency services said several people were injured during a stampede as residents rushed toward shelters after the alarms were activated.
Attacks coincide with Iran’s True Operation 4 operations
The reported attacks come hours after Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the 40th wave of Operation True Promise 4, carried out in coordination with the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon.
The report also acknowledged that the situation is significantly worse in settlements located near the northern border. Within a nine-kilometer radius of the frontier, around one-fifth of residents remain without adequate protection, raising concerns as the streams of missiles from Lebanon and Iran intensify.
According to the IRGC statement, the operation targeted more than 50 sites across occupied territories, marking one of the largest waves of strikes since the war began.
Zionist media: Third of settlers under fire, have no shelters
An emergency debate in the Knesset has revealed that approximately 3.2 million Israelis remain without standard bomb shelters, despite the zionist home front coming under repeated missile and drone attacks, according to the zionist website MS.
The joint emergency session, held by the State Control Committee and the Committee for Strengthening the Negev and Galilee, opened with a warning from committee chairman and Knesset member Alon Schuster, who said the occupied Palestinian territories had once again become a frontline.
“The home front has once again become a line of confrontation, but hundreds of thousands of citizens remain in real danger”, Schuster warned during the session.
Data presented from the State Comptroller’s report highlighted what lawmakers described as a growing protection gap. According to the figures, the fortification gap has widened by 5.6% since 2018, while one quarter of zionist students study in institutions lacking proper protective infrastructure.
The report also acknowledged that the situation is significantly worse in settlements located near the northern border. Within a nine-kilometer radius of the frontier, around one-fifth of residents remain without adequate protection, raising concerns as the streams of missiles from Lebanon and Iran intensify.
Iran asserts the Strait of Hormuz remains closed
A senior Iranian security source told Al Mayadeen on Wednesday that Washington has been waging psychological warfare for the second consecutive night over the Strait of Hormuz, seeking to manipulate energy markets. The source affirmed that not a single vessel has transited the strait under US military protection.
“Either there is full and comprehensive security in the Strait of Hormuz, or the strait will face permanent instability,” the source said. He added that ensuring such security is a shared responsibility for all parties, affirming Iran’s readiness to achieve it, while warning of equal readiness to push the regional war into a broader and more dangerous phase if necessary.
These remarks were reinforced by the spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, who confirmed on Wednesday that Iranian armed forces currently hold full operational initiative in the strait, noting that closing it remains an option of last resort rather than an opening move. He attributed the current state of affairs to the ongoing US-Israeli aggression on Iran.
Oil exports halted for hostile parties as US
Another senior Iranian military official stated that not “a single liter of oil” destined for hostile parties or their partners would be permitted to leave the region until further notice, stressing that wartime management of the strait would be governed by strict security and military regulations.
This comes as Reuters reported, citing sources, that the US Navy has been rejecting near-daily requests from the shipping sector for military escorts through the strait since the war on Iran began, deeming the risk of attack too high.
On Tuesday, Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, remarked that the Strait of Hormuz must either remain a passage of relief for all, or it will become a chokepoint for those who dream of war.
Iran asserts full intelligence coverage
On Wednesday evening, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, advisor to the commander-in-chief of Iran’s armed forces, stated that Iranian forces maintain robust intelligence oversight over adversary systems and movements, backed by cooperation with foreign states whose satellites are also tracking developments.
Safavi told Iranian television that Iran has real-time awareness of US naval fleet movements across theaters, from the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean to the Fifth Fleet in the Indian Ocean and the Sea of Oman.
He went further, asserting that US aircraft departing from the US mainland, Diego Garcia, or European bases are tracked continuously. “We know exactly where they are. Sometimes we even have their precise coordinates,” he asserted.
He also dismissed the effectiveness of strikes on Iranian military infrastructure, explaining that no missiles remain at the bases being targeted, as all assets have been relocated and dispersed across multiple sites. “This time we will impose our demands on them,” Safavi concluded, declaring that the war is moving toward Iran’s inevitable victory and that the United States has been humiliated.
IRGC warns of underwater missiles
Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, deputy commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, disclosed that Iran possesses underwater-launched missiles capable of traveling at 100 meters per second, suggesting their deployment could come within days.
He noted that Iran and Russia are the only two countries in the world to possess this technology, and warned that Americans should brace for further surprises.
In a direct address to President Donald Trump, Brigadier General Majid Mousavi, commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, called on him to instruct US Central Command to release before-and-after imagery of strikes on Iranian military installations, stressing that the footage is “worth seeing.”
Iran has continued striking US bases and zionist-occupied territories in response to the joint US-Israeli aggression that has deliberately targeted residential areas, civilian infrastructure, and natural resources since 28 February.
Strike on US base worse than reported
A drone attack launched by Iran against a US military installation in Kuwait in the early hours of the war inflicted far greater casualties than Pentagon officials initially acknowledged, CBS News has reported, citing multiple sources.
The strike targeted a tactical operations center at Shuaiba port, near Kuwait City, killing six US soldiers and wounding dozens more. Survivors described a chaotic scene as smoke rapidly engulfed the building, hampering rescue efforts. Two personnel were initially unaccounted for before their remains were recovered from the rubble.
As of Tuesday, more than 30 military personnel remained hospitalized with battle wounds from the Kuwait strike alone. One soldier is being treated at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, 12 at Walter Reed Medical Center outside Washington, DC, and roughly 25 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, according to sources cited by CBS News.
Approximately 20 of those at Landstuhl arrived aboard a C-17 military transport on Tuesday, classified as “urgent” evacuations. Their injuries included traumatic brain injuries, memory loss, concussions, burns, and shrapnel wounds, with at least one soldier potentially facing limb amputation. More than 100 additional medical personnel were deployed to Landstuhl to manage the influx.
A running toll the Pentagon was slow to release
The Pentagon’s initial March 1 statement characterized the damage as five seriously wounded and “several others” sustaining minor injuries, a description that significantly understated what sources say actually occurred.
The Kuwait strike figures sit within a broader casualty picture that has emerged only gradually. Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter, reported on March 10 that up to 150 US troops had been wounded across the first 10 days of fighting, a figure not previously disclosed publicly. The Pentagon later confirmed approximately 140 service members were wounded, insisting most injuries were minor and that 108 had already returned to duty.
CENTCOM confirmed the six Kuwait fatalities on March 2, and a seventh American was announced killed in a separate strike in Saudi Arabia the same day.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth described the Kuwait strike last week as an instance of air defenses intercepting most incoming threats but failing to stop one, what he called a “squirter,” that broke through and hit the fortified operations center.
Iran claims far higher US death toll
Iranian officials have contested the Pentagon’s casualty figures sharply. Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, claimed last week that over 500 US soldiers were killed in the war’s first five days alone, accusing Washington of censoring the true scope of its losses.
He further suggested that the full extent of American casualties would not surface immediately, implying the real toll would only become clear over time.
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