Israel strikes Hezbollah positions including with a helicopter attack
The Israeli military says it launched a series of attacks on Hezbollah positions, including a helicopter assault in the area of Tayr Harfa in southern Lebanon. Fighter jets attacked “three terrorist infrastructures” in separate areas, along with military buildings in the areas of Mays al-Jabal and Kfar Kula.
The Israeli army also confirmed several rocket launches aimed at northern Israel were detected from southern Lebanon over the past few hours, the sites of which were later targeted.
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Hezbollah claims 9 attacks on Israel today
The armed Lebanese group says in its end-of-day list of operations that it launched nine attacks on Israeli positions today. Multiple attacks claimed by Hezbollah targeted “buildings used by Israeli enemy soldiers” with rockets and other weapons, including an attack on Zarit in northern Israel.
It said one of its attacks targeted Israeli military barracks with artillery shells, with another directly targeting soldiers and inflicting casualties.
The group also released a short video that appeared to show how its forces monitored the movement of Israeli soldiers into a building before firing an antitank-guided missile that struck it. Hezbollah says it is launching most of these attacks in response to Israeli assaults on villages and civilian homes across southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah has warned it’s fully ready to battle Israel after its fighters exchanged cross-border attacks since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October. Hezbollah has at least 60,000 fighters and it increased its stockpile of missiles from 14,000 in 2006 to about 150,000 now.
Houthi leader says 479 missiles and drones launched since October
Houthi leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi says the Yemeni group has launched 479 missiles and drones since late October in its efforts to support Palestinians and stop Israel’s war on Gaza.
He pointed out during his latest speech that the Israeli port city of Eilat has taken a financial hit from Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and pledged that the group has more “plans” in the works to hurt Israel, without elaborating.
“God willing, we leave room for action first and then for words,” he was quoted as saying by the Houthi-run Al Masirah channel.
Al-Houthi also said the group will continue to resist as US and UK attacks on Yemen are persisting in full force, with 31 air raids and naval bombardments coming on multiple Yemeni governorates this week alone. The two Western powers have launched 407 attacks on Yemen since January, he said.
