Hezbollah says Israeli raid targeted one of its positions in eastern Lebanon
An Israeli strike targeted a Hezbollah building in eastern Lebanon on Sunday morning, the day after Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel, a pro-Iranian party source told Agence France. Press.
“An Israeli raid targeted (…) a two-story building belonging to Hezbollah”, said this source. The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that the raid had “ destroyed a building in the village of Nabi Chit »in the Bekaa plain.
As the Iranian attack on Israel took place overnight, Hezbollah announced that it had launched two salvos of Katyusha-type rockets at Israeli military positions located in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan. Attacks which are part of the continuity of anti-Israeli operations claimed by the Lebanese Islamist group for six months.
At dawn, Israeli army warplanes responded by striking Hezbollah military structures in southern Lebanon, specifically in the regions of Khiam, Jbaa and Kfar Kila, she said. Before an Israeli army spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, confirmed that Israeli fighters had targeted “an important site” Hezbollah arms production, ” in depth “ in Lebanon, in response to the night attacks by the Shiite group.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas on October 7, there have been daily exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which claims to support its ally, the Palestinian Islamist movement.
At least 363 people have since been killed in Lebanon, mainly Hezbollah fighters but also at least seventy civilians, in cross-border violence, according to a count by Agence France-Presse. In northern Israel, ten soldiers and eight civilians were killed according to the Jewish state army.