Israeli air strikes in Lebanon kill 16 and wound 90 in one day
Israel’s military has killed at least 16 people and injured 90 others in Lebanon today, according to the Health Ministry’s latest figures.
A ministry statement says the new fatalities raised the total number of people killed in Israeli attacks in the country since October 2023 to 3,002 with 13,492 others injured.
Hezbollah targets Israeli settlement in occupied Golan Heights
The Lebanese armed group says it has bombed Kidmat Tzvi in the occupied central Golan Heights with a rocket salvo. It also targeted the Ayelet Hashahar area in northern Israel with a barrage of projectiles.
Israeli fighter jets hit alleged Hezbollah ‘intel HQ’ in Syria
Earlier, Syrian state media reported that Israeli forces launched an air attack targeting “civilian areas” south of the capital, Damascus.
Israel’s air force has now put out a statement saying its jets conducted attacks targeting “terrorist targets of the intelligence headquarters of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah in the Syrian region”.
“The Intelligence Headquarters is the central intelligence body in Hezbollah that is responsible for building the organisation’s intelligence image, leads the direction of intelligence activities in the organisation, and is the centre of collection and detection capabilities,” it said in a post on X.
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on the attack.
Video shows huge blasts in southern Lebanon border village
Footage shows massive detonations in a southern Lebanese border village. The video, shared widely online, showed more than a dozen simultaneous blasts that ripped through Meiss el-Jabal and razed homes to dust.
Similar aerial scenes have been captured from several border villages including Mhaibib and Odaisseh since Israel sent ground troops into southern Lebanon in late September. “Seventy percent of Meiss el-Jabal is destroyed,” said Mayor Abdul-Monhem Choukair. “[The] Israeli enemy’s goal is systematic destruction.”
Choukair said four people, aged between 85 and 90, are trapped in Meiss el-Jabal’s rubble.
According to Lebanon’s official National News Agency, Israeli troops dynamited buildings in at least seven border villages last month.
Hezbollah targets Israeli forces in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese armed group says it fired rockets at a “movement of the Israeli enemy army forces” on the northeastern outskirts of the town of Maroun al-Ras. The group also said it bombed the Israeli city of Safed with a “salvo of rockets”.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire across the border of Israel and Lebanon since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023. The conflict took a violent turn last month after Israel launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon and intensified its air strikes.
