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Israel says 30 rockets launched from Lebanon

The Israeli military says most of the rockets were intercepted, and others fell in open areas in northern Israel with no casualties reported. It said fighter jets attacked the launcher with which the rockets were fired.

Israel claims Lebanon drone strike that killed Hezbollah member

Israel’s military has published a video of a drone strike it says it carried out near Lebanon’s southern city of Nabatieh that killed a Hezbollah member. It claimed the group’s member, Muhammad Nasser, played a significant role in developing specialised weapons.

Earlier, as we reported, Hezbollah confirmed that Nasser was killed in an Israeli attack in the Nabatieh area.


Hezbollah says it targeted an Israeli brigade with dozens of missiles

Hezbollah said its fighters fired dozens of rockets fighters at the Beit Hillel base in northern Israel.

Earlier, Hezbollah announced that one of its members, Muhammad Nasser, was killed in an Israeli drone attack. Israeli forces struck a vehicle in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Dajjal, near Nabatieh, where Nasser was from.


Lebanese schoolchildren narrowly escape Israel’s deadly strike on Hezbollah fighter

We have been reporting on the Israeli drone strike that killed a Hezbollah member in southern Lebanon and wounded three people. AFP is now reporting that the wounded were three Lebanese schoolchildren with the minibus they were travelling on narrowly escaping the attack.

The strike blew out the windscreen of the bus, wounding three pupils who were hospitalised with cuts from flying glass.

“At first, we didn’t understand what was happening, and there was panic among the children,” bus driver Ahmad Qubaisi, 57, said. “Suddenly, a strike hit the car in front of us” near the town of Nabatiyeh, about 13km [8 miles] from the Israeli border. “The bus’s windshield shattered… I backed up, and that’s when the second strike hit the car.”


A Lebanese driver clears the glass of the smashed windshield of a school minibus that was passing a car of a Hezbollah fighter, which was targeted by an Israeli drone strike, on May 23


Hezbollah says it destroys Israeli tank

The Lebanese group says in a statement that it has observed, ambushed and destroyed an Israeli army Merkava tank in the Shtoula Forest.

It said it observed the tank firing on villages in southern Lebanon before attacking it with a guided anti-tank missile, leaving its crew “dead and wounded”.

Earlier, an Israeli army drone strike killed Muhammad Nasser, a Hezbollah commander, in the Nabtieh area in southern Lebanon. Israel confirmed it carried out the attack, and Hezbollah confirmed the death of the commander. ‏


Israeli PM Netanyahu boasts of ‘surprising plan’ for Hezbollah

While shouldering heavy criticism over Israel’s Gaza escalation, defiant leader Benjamin Netanyahu says there are also military plans in the works for southern Lebanon.

“We are constantly operating on the northern front. So far, we have killed hundreds of Hezbollah members, and we are still continuing to this day,” said Netanyahu.

“We have a clear, detailed, important and even surprising plan. But I will not share this plan with the enemy, which is prepared to achieve two things: The first is to restore safety to the north, and the second is to return the population to their homes safely. And we are determined to achieve both things together.”

Tens of thousands of civilians on both sides of the border have fled daily fighting since October 7, after Hezbollah began launching attacks into northern Israel in support of Hamas in Gaza.