Hezbollah has shifted its fire from border skirmishes to the very heart of Israel’s air‑defense network, claiming strikes on an “Iron Dome headquarters” and a key missile base in northern Israel.

According to the group’s military wing, precision rockets and drones were launched at two “strategic targets” near Haifa: the headquarters of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems – the company that designs and builds Iron Dome launchers and interceptors – and the Ramat David air base, home to combat squadrons and air‑defense assets protecting the north.

Lebanese reports say the attack was billed as Hezbollah’s “first response” to the deadly pager and walkie‑talkie explosions that ripped through its ranks earlier this week, blamed on Israeli covert action. Sirens sounded across northern Israel as residents filmed interceptor launches and columns of smoke rising from the Haifa area.

Israeli officials have acknowledged incoming fire on Haifa’s industrial zone and the air base but insist that most projectiles were intercepted and that damage on the ground is “limited.” No mass‑casualty incident has been confirmed, and independent imagery so far shows only localized fires and impact marks, not a destroyed headquarters or shattered runway.

Still, the symbolism is potent. By aiming at the factories that feed Iron Dome and the only major air base in the north, Hezbollah is signaling it can reach beyond border towns to Israel’s defense core itself—testing not just the range of its rockets, but public confidence in a shield long sold as almost impenetrable.