Hezbollah used these Syrian-sourced, domestically modified missiles for the first time in three rocket barrages targeting northern Israel early Sunday morning.
Hezbollah launched a new wave of missile attacks on Sunday morning, marking the first reported use of its “Fadi 1 and Fadi 2” missiles since the current conflict began.
The group announced it had fired dozens of these rockets, in three different salvos, two aimed at the Ramat David military base and airfield in the Haifa region of northern Israel, and the third toward the headquarters of the Rafael Advanced Defense System company, in an industrial zone north of Haifa.
This is the first time in nearly a year of cross-border fighting that Hezbollah has targeted the Haifa area, though the party released a video in July that reportedly showed images captured by a drone it had flown over Ramat David. It is also the deepest into Israel that Hezbollah has sent its missiles.
The Israeli military reported at 8 a.m. that 115 rockets were launched toward civilian areas in northern Israel, and Israeli media reported damage from rockets in at least one northern Israeli town, Kiryat Bialik.
This is the first time Hezbollah has mentioned the Fadi missiles publicly. What do we know?
Fadi-1
Al-Mayadeen, a channel sympathetic to the "Axis of Resistance," identified the Fadi-1 as a 220 mm diameter rocket, fired from a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), with a range of up to 80 kilometers.
A source close to Hezbollah told L'Orient Today on Sunday that the Fadi-1 is a variant of the Syrian-manufactured Khaybar-1 rocket, which Hezbollah is known to modify.