US destroys Houthi drones, missile in Yemen, Gulf of Aden and Red Sea
The US’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has issued a statement with details of the assaults, saying it destroyed five Houthi drones, one drone ship and a missile in three different locations – Yemen, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.
CENTCOM said its forces, in the past 24 hours, destroyed three Houthi drones launched over the Gulf of Aden and one drone in rebel-controlled areas in Yemen. Additionally, US forces also destroyed one drone, one drone ship and one antiship ballistic missile in the Red Sea.
Israel intercepts projectile from Lebanon
The Israeli military said its air defence forces intercepted a “suspicious aerial target” launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel.
It said air raid sirens were activated as the projectile was shot down over Kerem Ben Zimra and Gush Halav in the Upper Galilee and added there were no casualties.
Hezbollah claims attack on Israel’s Avivim
The Lebanese group said it targeted a building used by Israeli soldiers in the village of Avivim near Lebanon’s Blue Line border with Israel.
The announcement came after the Israeli military said it intercepted a projectile over Kerem Ben Zimra and Gush Halav, towns that are near Avivim in the Upper Galilee.
Four killed by Israeli air attack in southern Lebanon: Report
An Israeli air raid on the village of Mayfadoun has killed four people, according to a statement from Lebanon’s Health Ministry cited by the country’s An-Nahar media outlet.
Israel’s military did not immediately comment on the reported strike. It comes several hours after Israel’s military shot down what it called a “suspicious aerial target” from Lebanon.
Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon strike: Report
All four people killed in the Israeli strike in Lebanon’s Mayfadoun were Hezbollah fighters, reports AFP, citing a security source. Reuters, also citing an unnamed security source, said the four killed were men.
The attack is bound to further inflame tensions with the Lebanese group, which, along with Iran, is believed to be preparing a retaliatory attack against Israel.
Hezbollah says four fighters killed
The Lebanese group says four of its members have been killed in cross-border fighting with Israel, without providing details about the circumstances of their deaths.
Injuries in Hezbollah attack on northern Israel: Report
Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 reports that a drone launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah has made a “direct hit” on a farm near Nahariya. The injuries, the number of which we are unable to confirm at this time, range from “moderate” to “serious”.
Hezbollah claims strikes on Israeli military units
Hezbollah has confirmed it carried out an air attack in northern Israel that caused casualties.
In a statement, the Lebanese group said it fired a series of drones at the headquarters of Israel’s Golani Brigade, an infantry brigade, and the headquarters of its Egoz Unit, an elite commando unit, located in the Shraga barracks near the Lebanese border.
The attacks “hit their targets accurately and achieved casualties”, said the group, adding that its response for the killing of Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander, in an Israeli strike on Beirut last week is “yet to come”.
Meanwhile, The Times of Israel reports that two people have been injured, one critically, in the nearby town of Mazra’a from drone impact.
