Tehran, IRNA - General Tamir Hayman, the former head of the Israeli military intelligence has acknowledged that some 80,000 settlers fled from the northern occupied Palestinian territories amid fear of strikes by Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement.

According to Al-Mayadeen, Hayman said Hezbollah has created a buffer zone in the north of Israel during the ongoing tensions.

The continuation of this situation, at the strategic level, is in favor of the axis of resistance, he added.

Tens of thousands of Zionists have left the settlements that were illegally built on the occupied Palestinian land out of fear of Hezbollah rocket attacks across the Lebanese borders.

Hezbollah has been engaged in operations against Israeli positions at Lebanon’s border since October 8, a day after the regime unleashed its war on Gaza following Al Aqsa Storm Operation by the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, earlier that day.

The movement has also time and again said that its operations targeting the northern parts of the occupied territories are aimed at providing support to the Palestinian resistance fighters battling Israeli forces in Gaza, which is located at the border with the southern parts of the Israeli-occupied land.

But, so far, the Lebanese resistance movement has targeted Israeli military bases and spy networks, inflicting casualties and losses on the Zionist regime.

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