Hezbollah claims to hit Israeli sites near border
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group says it has fired weapons at Israel’s Ramia military site near the border, destroying one of its newly set up “technical systems”.
Hezbollah also fired a rocket at Israel’s al-Samaqa military site, which is located in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfarchouba, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
The Hezbollah attacks follow an alleged Israeli drone attack on a car in southern Lebanon that killed four of its members, according to Lebanese security sources cited by Reuters.
Israeli military attacks Hezbollah positions after rocket, drone attacks
The Israeli military has confirmed an unspecified number of injures after Hezbollah rocket attacks on the Shlomi settlement that also led to a fire, saying air defence intercepted two drones inside Lebanese territory as well.
The Hezbollah attacks had sounded air raid alarms in several northern Israel settlements. The Israeli military added that it targeted positions of the Lebanese armed group in the Aita al-Shaab area.
It also said its forced “fired to remove threats” across multiple areas in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah claims attack to avenge ‘assassinated’ members
The armed Lebanese group says attacks on Israeli positions a few hours ago came “in response to the assassination” of its members in the Israeli air raid in Bafliyeh.
Hezbollah said in a post on its Telegram channel it targeted a military headquarters in the settlement of Kfar Giladi, “directly hitting the operation room” of senior Israeli forces and inflicting casualties. It released three videos of attacks on Israeli positions on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Two attacks were carried out using antitank guided missiles with one employing mortar fire. They targeted Israeli soldiers and “spying equipment”.
Yemen’s Houthis say they will continue to target ships transporting goods to Israel
The leader of Yemen’s Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, says the group would target ships of any company related to supplying or transporting goods to Israel regardless of their destination.
He said this was a fourth stage of escalation in retaliation to “the Israeli aggression on Rafah”. “From now on, we are also thinking about the fifth stage and the sixth stage, and we have very important, sensitive and influential choices on the enemies,” he said.
Months of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa.
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