Hezbollah claims 3 separate attacks on northern Israel
Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group has claimed to have attacked Israel’s Ruwaisaat al-Alam military site in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfarchouba “with a heavy barrage of missiles”.
The group said it used a self-manufactured missile in the 9:30am (06:30 GMT) attack, “which led to a direct hit on the site, destroying part of it, and setting it on fire”.
Separately, Hezbollah claimed to have targeted the Abirim settlement in northern Israel “for the first time” with Katyusha rockets “in response to the Israeli enemy attacks that targeted civilians in the villages of Safad el-Battikh, Majdal Selem, and Chaqra” in southern Lebanon.
Also today, a Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese paramilitary group – Lebanese Resistance Brigades – targeted the Rahib military site in northern Israel with rockets and artillery at 9am (06:00 GMT), according to Hezbollah’s Telegram statement.
“The Lebanese Resistance Brigades vow to continue the fight until victory and liberation are achieved,” it added.
Hezbollah praises Houthis for Tel Aviv attack
Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group has called a deadly drone attack on Tel Aviv that had been claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels as “a triumph for the oppression of the Palestinian people and their fighters”.
It said the Yemeni fighters were supporting “the heroic” Palestinian fighters in Gaza who in turn are defending “all our people and countries of our Arab and Islamic nations”.
The group said the fight will not stop until “the aggression and the siege of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is stopped”.
Tit-for-tat strikes pushing Israel, Hezbollah into fiercer conflict
There is widespread destruction in the southern Lebanese town of Safad el-Battikh, near the Israeli border, with a four-storey building hit by an Israeli strike overnight.
At least two people were killed here, two members of Hezbollah. We understand from security sources that one of them was a field commander with its elite unit, the Radwan Force. Nineteen civilians were also injured.
This is part of the ongoing violence along the border between the Israeli military and Hezbollah. We cannot rule out further escalation. Hezbollah officials believe Israel is not able to widen the scope of its attacks. They say the Israeli army is bogged down in Gaza and its resources have been exhausted. But the Israelis are threatening.
What Israel wants is for Hezbollah to pull back from the border at least 8-9km so that 70,000-80,000 Israeli citizens can return to their homes in the north.
Hezbollah is refusing to discuss any new arrangement on the border until after the war on Gaza ends. The longer these tit-for-tat strikes continue, you cannot rule out the possibility of this conflict widening.
Hezbollah claims three more attacks on Israeli targets
We have reported earlier today that the Lebanese armed group claimed three separate attacks on Israeli targets.
Since then, Hezbollah announced hitting three more, including “a direct hit” on Israeli soldiers which resulted in a fire in an area in the vicinity of the Ramim military barracks with a Burkan missile.
It also claimed to have shelled an Israeli military site near Metula in northern Israel, before targeting “the enemy’s artillery positions in Khirbet Ma’ar” with dozens of Katyusha and Al-Falaq rockets.
