Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said on Tuesday it had launched a drone attack against Israeli military bases north of the city of Acre, in its deepest strike into Israeli territory since the Gaza war began.
Israeli jets and artillery struck approximately 40 pro-Iranian Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon on Wednesday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said. The IDF said it hit an arms depot and "other terror infrastructures,
Both Israel’s attack and Iran’s response were unexpected. Iran, in particular, has a long history of muted responses to Israeli provocations, simply because a war with Israel or its main ally, the United States,
The Israeli military said that it had intercepted two aerial attacks off its northern coast, but did not comment on Hezbollah’s claim that it had hit a military barracks. The extent of any damage was not clear.
The Israeli military has claimed an airstrike on a car in southern Lebanon killed a Hezbollah official on Tuesday 23 April. A statement from the IDF said that it had killed Hussein Ali Azqul in the strike and described him as a “significant” operative in Hezbollah’s aerial defence unit.
The IDF used both fighter jets and artillery in this operation, targeting weapons depots and other strategic assets used by Hizbullah for its operations against Israel. This latest military action follows a pattern of increased tensions along the border,
State media and a Hezbollah source said one person was wounded Thursday in an Israeli drone attack on eastern Lebanon following a flare-up in cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israel.
Hezbollah has launched a series of drone strikes against Israeli military bases, in its deepest attack inside Israel since the start of the war in Gaza.
It's Day 200 of the Israel-Hamas war, but the warring sides have shown no signs of reaching a ceasefire even with thousands dead and many more injured due to the fighting.
Israeli forces are carrying out "offensive action" across southern Lebanon, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border.
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said it launched dozens of rockets at northern Israel Tuesday in response to the killing of two civilians in a strike blamed on Israel in Lebanon's south.