The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed this Tuesday (9) that they attacked several Hezbollah military posts in southern Lebanon with artillery and air, in response to several rocket and drone launches from the Kfarkela region. , which raised alarms in several parts of northern Israeli territory.
Several rockets launched from Lebanon were intercepted in the regions of Malkia and Yifach, and drones were also detected infiltrating northern Israel, including one that struck a military base of the country's Army Northern Command in Safed, without causing any injuries or damage.
“A short time ago, IDF soldiers attacked an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launch squad in southern Lebanon. The artillery is also targeting the sources of the launches fired at northern Israel,” a military statement said.
In turn, the Lebanese news agency ANN reported that an Israeli drone hit a vehicle in the Ghandouriya region, in southern Lebanon, and that there was a second bombing of ambulances sent to the scene to help the victims, which left a paramedic slightly injured.
The identity of the occupants of the vehicle targeted in the initial attack is unknown, a day after another Israeli raid killed a senior commander of the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah while he was traveling in a similar car in southern Lebanon.
Wissam Hassan Taweel, a senior commander of Radwan's special forces, was killed yesterday (8) on a road in the Khirbet al Salam region, considerably far from the immediate border with Israel, as well as Ghandouriya, where this morning's new attack took place. .
Hezbollah responded to Taweel's assassination by launching several drone strikes against the headquarters of the Israeli Northern Command in the city of Safad, one of its biggest actions since the start of crossfire with Israel three months ago in the context of the war between the country and the terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Violence on the border between Israel and Lebanon increased after a bomb attack, blamed on Israeli forces, killed the number two in the Palestinian Islamic group, Saleh al-Arouri, and six other people on the outskirts of Beirut a week ago.
That region, an important Hezbollah stronghold, had not been attacked since the war between the group and Israel in 2006, raising fears that Lebanon could become a second front in the war raging in Gaza.
Hezbollah had already made a first response to Arouri's assassination last Saturday (6), when it fired more than 60 projectiles at an important military base responsible for coordinating air operations outside Israeli territory and located on Mount Meron, in northern Israel. .
The border between Israel and Lebanon is experiencing its highest peak of tension since 2006, with an exchange of fire that has lasted three months and which has already claimed the lives of more than 200 people.
In Israel, 13 people were killed on the northern border, nine soldiers and four civilians, while in Lebanon more than 190 people died, including at least 19 members of armed groups, one soldier and 21 civilians, in addition to members of Hezbollah. (With EFE Agency)
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